18-03-2023, 04:51 PM
Interestingly, on all our long trips in Ruby last year including the Eurotour thro’ France, Belgium and Germany and our return trip to Moreton here in the UK we never bettered 25mph, despite the fact that we were on open roads and regularly ran at speeds up to 50mph, our daily average never bettered 25 mph.
If we had 75 to do it took us 3 hours of driving and when we had 200 miles to do it took 8 hours of driving, never changed.
Every village in France and Belgium had enormous speed bumps and so in towns and villages it was snails pace and similarly in the UK, avoiding motorways etc every town and village is slow going simply due to traffic.
So I always now work on the basis of estimating driving time based on 25 mph wherever we are going!
If we had 75 to do it took us 3 hours of driving and when we had 200 miles to do it took 8 hours of driving, never changed.
Every village in France and Belgium had enormous speed bumps and so in towns and villages it was snails pace and similarly in the UK, avoiding motorways etc every town and village is slow going simply due to traffic.
So I always now work on the basis of estimating driving time based on 25 mph wherever we are going!