What's the longest journey you've been on?

Daith · 08-12-2013 12:54PM

Three day train ride from Vancouver to Toronto. Also a 36hour bus ride in Chile

Tonyandthewhale · 08-12-2013 12:56PM

Longest 'day' of travelling probably from Preston to Falmouth by bicycle. Left around 7am on a Wednesday morning, arrived around 1pm on Thursday. Clocked up about 600km in between.

Longest over-all trip thus far was probably this Summer, meandering bike tour through South-East Europe and Turkey. 3 and a bit weeks, roughly 3000km through Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania and Macedonia.

dundalkfc10 · 08-12-2013 01:30PM

Left Dundalk 3.30AM on a Monday morning and arrived in Poznan at 11.30PM that night, Had my 1st can at 3.30am and remember having vodkas in Poznan that night, Great Day

MJ23 · 08-12-2013 01:32PM

Bra to knickers

Red Kev · 08-12-2013 02:14PM

I,ve often driven from Germany or Ireland to west Africa - Senegal, Mali or Guinea Bissau. usually in vans and trucks, 6 days was the best 8 was more usual. That's 16-18 hours driving, sleep 6 hours, then drive again, every day.

A few years ago when you need a convoy from Morocco to Mauritania it took 8 days minimum, more like 10 in reality.

Vladivostok to Moscow by train in 1997. 11 days, 10 nights, it was a goods train with passenger compartments. We had to take the goods train as we had a car strapped onto one of the wagons. Very comfortable, very interesting talking to the people we met but 11 days is hard going. (I think the passenger train is normally 3 days faster). Stayed one night in Moscow, left the next morning at 7 a.m and drove three days straight to Germany, most of the time was lost in queues at the borders.

08-12-2013 02:17PM

Dublin to Melbourne via London and Singapore. About 36 hours or so.

If I was doing it again, I'd probably stop for a few nights in Asia somewhere to break it up

MadsL · 08-12-2013 02:25PM

http://imgur.com/WXUehmR

Albuquerque > LA via Route 66. LA to SF via Route 1. SF to Vegas via Yosemite Valley. Vegas to Albuquerque.

Six days and 2415 miles in a truck averaging about 11 mpg.

D1stant · 08-12-2013 02:27PM

Vancouver to Toronto. 4 days hitchhiking

MadsL · 08-12-2013 02:29PM

Longest continuous drive was Albuquerque to Austin > 12hrs overnight. 762 miles.

R019912 · 08-12-2013 02:30PM

London to Bangkok with Thai Airways. Best flight of my life. 3 seats to myself and amazing food, with hot Thai air hostesses. Yay

MadsL · 08-12-2013 02:37PM

R019912 wrote: »

London to Bangkok with Thai Airways. Best flight of my life. 3 seats to myself and amazing food, with hot Thai air hostesses. Yay

Did they also have a mild option?

biko · 08-12-2013 02:39PM

Many different hauls but the worst one was interrailing from Athens to Istanbul on an hot overcrowded train. We couldn't even get seats and had to site on the floor, the journey was something like 18 hours.
I did a similar train journey from Mumbai to Trivandrum once but had a cot so was all good.

RayM · 08-12-2013 02:40PM

Six hours. Dublin to Galway on a packed Bus Eireann coach, before the M6 opened. Almost two of those hours were spent in Moate. Quite grim.

poisonated · 08-12-2013 02:43PM

Probably flying from Dublin to Beijing. Think that took about 20 hours. that journey wasnt so bad though. I also took a slow train in China from Xian to Shanghai. That took 15 hours but it was horrible. There were loads of people smoking, spitting and smelling strange.

08-12-2013 02:45PM

I once went on a road trip that was from San Diego, California, to Sante Fe, New Mexico. It was a 14 hour (when you include all the stops we had to take) drive, covering 800 miles with some of it through desert. At some points the temperature outside topped 40-50 Celcius and the car we were driving in had no air conditioning. That plus the leather seats in the back made for uncomfortable conditions. I have to say that it was some of the most dazzling scenery I've ever seen, with us passing a train that was well over a mile long with the amount of carriages it had. It even had a small plane on one of them!

efb · 08-12-2013 02:46PM

LHR to LAX for a Mayweather fight

Wattle · 08-12-2013 02:47PM

Flights wise Dublin to Auckland via Los Angles. 24 hours. I was so jet lagged when I arrived that I felt like I was in a different dimension.

NoCrackHaving · 08-12-2013 02:47PM

I didn't do this personally but had a mate who did a race from Prague to Beijing by car, broke down in rural Mongolia at one point, interesting experience.

MadsL · 08-12-2013 02:51PM

NoCrackHaving wrote: »

I didn't do this personally but had a mate who did a race from Prague to Beijing by car, broke down in rural Mongolia at one point, interesting experience.

Isn't that the Mongol Rally from Prague to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia? One litre cars or less? 10k mile trip...

Spring Onion · 08-12-2013 02:55PM

Auckland-Melbourne-KL-Amsterdam-Dublin

Absolute hellish trip. I was 8 hours walking around Melbourne airport at night.

looking_around · 08-12-2013 03:32PM

Shannon to London, London to Hong Kong, was about 12/13 hours or something in total.

NoCrackHaving · 08-12-2013 03:34PM

MadsL wrote: »

Isn't that the Mongol Rally from Prague to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia? One litre cars or less? 10k mile trip...

Yep, that's the one alright!

BillyMitchel · 08-12-2013 04:31PM

Took a bus from east to west coast Oz and it took just over 48hrs. Mental. Good craic though.

MadYaker · 08-12-2013 04:36PM

Dublin > London Heathrow > Johannesburg > Durban. Took around 16 or 17 hours I think.

Mint Sauce · 08-12-2013 04:43PM

Time wise 18 hours from London to Donegal, train, boat, then road after a missed connection. I say missed connection, it was really no connection, unless you were prepared to wait till the next morning.

Distance wise, flying London to Toronto.

viztopia · 08-12-2013 04:46PM

Once drove from las Vegas to Los angeles to board a flight to Dublin. When we landed in Dublin we drove to mayo for a christening.
This summer gone by we drove from Dublin to Berlin with ferries etc non stop in roughly 24 hours for a sick relative. I left my wife in berlin and boarded a flight for Dublin and was home about 30 hours after leaving.

Beasty · 08-12-2013 04:53PM

Did a "day and a half" return to LA a few years ago (just under 36 hours on the ground), then did a business trip over a couple of weeks - Dublin, London, New York, Melbourne, Singapore, Frankfurt, London, Dublin (managed to take in the Empire State Building, Universal Studios, a 1 day Ashes Cricket international and an evening at the Aussie Tennis Open in my "leisure" time mind:D)

BillyMitchel · 08-12-2013 05:03PM

Beasty wrote: »

Did a "day and a half" return to LA a few years ago (just under 36 hours on the ground), then did a business trip over a couple of weeks - Dublin, London, New York, Melbourne, Singapore, Frankfurt, London, Dublin (managed to take in the Empire State Building, Universal Studios, a 1 day Ashes Cricket international and an evening at the Aussie Tennis Open in my "leisure" time mind:D)

Howard Marks is that you?!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 08-12-2013 06:32PM

Delhi - Goa. 44 hours on a train, 3rd class, wooden benches. Stupidly let my Finnish freind buy the tickets, he decided to go for the cheapest possible because it owuld be more "authentic".

He got that right. Never again!

I;ve also done Denmark to India via land in renovated busses, but that was an awesomr trip.

A Neurotic · 08-12-2013 06:44PM

24 hour bus from Windhoek, Namibia to Cape Town, South Africa.

It was surprisingly comfortable, although the Christian family movies provided as "entertainment" were fairly excruciating.

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