> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:04:51 +0100, Jon Green deadspam.com>
> wrote:
>

>> Roland Perry wrote:

>>> In message <1216035086.9373.0@proxy02.news.clara.net>, at 12:31:18 on
>>> Mon, 14 Jul 2008, magwitch remarked:

>>>> All I can say is that during the '50s '60s and '70s people managed to
>>>> get to Devon or Cornwall for lovely holidays and the 4–6 hour car or
>>>> train journey was all part of the fun.

>>> I remember going down there by car pre-motorways, via the infamous
>>> Honiton Bypass etc, and it wasn't much fun. Nor was it 4-6 hours!!

>> It's not six hours to Cornwall even now! (At least, not if you keep to
>> the speed limits and don't try to do it in one shift.) You'd be lucky
>> to make it to the Devon border from Cambridge in four hours - Multimap
>> reckons 4'24" even on modern roads, and that doesn't reckon in rest stops.
>>

> Four minutes twenty-four seconds?!?!?!