Yikes 688 miles 1st day - I can feel the early adrenolin
We have friends spread far and wide in Scotland - they learnt from a very early age not to ask 'Are we there yet' !!!
Aberdeen at Easter with 3 quick stops -
Helensburgh done regularly with a quick top up of fuel - hubbys only regret is that we do insist on stopping for the loo!
Yorkshire and back in a short week-end to see friends. Depends what you are used to. But the girls are good and we had plenty to keep them amused.
Amazon sell the I spy books - on a motorway, cars, travelling etc so we all played these games. Took a dictionary (English) and made them learn to spell hard words, the youngest learnt her times tables too on that drive! She couldn't escape from us!
have a student staying with us till Friday - once she has gone will pull out the diary again and post approx costs.
With 4 of us travelling and not always the option of a family room if we were quoted more than 100 euros for one large or two smaller rooms we said no thanks and made to leave. Twice we were asked how much we wanted to pay.
The girls are not very good at eating at 6 am in the morning - so we would skip breakfast in the hotels and eat further down the road at a service station or cafe.
As my previous post stated we had lots of water on board that was cold and bottles of squash that we poured into the water to make drinks. Sausage rolls were also frozen and can satisfy a hungry child. Fruit and dried snacks were also taken.
Would say it was the same as four of us flying as the hotel costs bumped up the price. But will get the info together and post for you to browse over.
Don't let your kids take a photo of the tunnel just as you are about to enter it - the camera flash went off in the car, the second hubby turned on the lights - lots of panic and swearing in a second! We both thought the entire fuse/electric system had blown in the car - until a voice said - Don't worry Daddy, it was only me taking a photo!!!!
When your travelling round, over and through mega pot holes don't let them play with an empty pringle tube with a rubber in it to make a drum! The drum banged the car door the same time we went into a nasty hole. Thought we had lost something from the back end of the car!!! Again a little voice pops up - I've made a drum to beat to the music!
Anyway, sorry for waffling, but it was a superb trip. Only once did hubby discretly central lock the car doors. This was on the road works in Romania when we had a group of boys come begging to the car doors.
Our daughters lead a charmed life and this trip certainly opened their eyes to just how fortunate they are.