To notice it's always a 5 hour journey?

[MarthasGinYard]

Ever noticed this??

If ever there's a 'function' thread about a party, wedding or gathering that is up for debate it's ALWAYS '5 long hours away'.

"Been invited to a child free wedding, it's 5 hours each way"

"Mil is complaining she wants us to visit more often, it's 5 hours away"

I'm going to be BOLD and say I think Posters exaggerate this for max effect

And yes I'm bored tonight

@RedskyToNight well to be honest I might have been thinking of a couple of people I know, ALL friends and family live within 1 hour of Oxford, bar maybe a couple of friends who live in London, but still have family in Oxford. So where do they decide to have their childfree, give us cash wedding... the north of bloody Scotland! A minimum 6 hour drive, cos I just love spending my whole weekend apart from my 12 month old, crammed in a Nissan Micra. But at least they’re “giving me the night off” pffft (and no, I didn’t go)

I'd probably get to my kids in five hours assuming no delays, if I was to fly.

If I took the car it would be closer to 17 hours door to door.

Haha we are suffolk and we got married in skye. We drove with the kids....was 14hrs approx! It's so flat in suffolk it was worth it

'It's so flat in suffolk it was worth it'

It really is isn't it? I actually think that would bother me. Do you crave the hills now and then Skye?

For our holiday this year we drove from central Scotland to Yorkshire, Saturday daytime and it was a five hour drive with two under five!

Similar story here, except the day we went home I think every other fucker from central Scotland was doing the same. So it was more like 6 hours to get back.

I did a (SE) London to lake district weekend wedding once. Should have been about 5 hours each way but accidents on the M6 both times meant it was more like 8. And the couple lived in London!

Just back from MIL's, 8.5 hours each way, about 600 miles - car, plane, car, and including loo stops and airport waiting time. Can get to my mum's in 4 hours with a following wind as both we and she are only half an hour from airport, so it seems a long time to MIL's considering it's only an extra 100 miles or so. Don't do either very often and usually only complain DH and local friends, who understand the problem!

Our best friends live 6 hours actual driving time away, but we visit once a year, and they us, because we like each other!

Haven't been invited to many weddings recently (we are more the age when everyone has started dying). When everyone back home was getting married we generally went and made a nice weekend of it. Usually I found that kind of thing more fun when I was younger.

I do say the journey to PILs was 5 hours, but that did include a break, because we always do have a break.
20 years ago we could make it in just over 3.5 hours if we went full speed in our old sporty car with no breaks. Not with children though.

Can I say DHs family have invited us to things that start at 7pm and tell us we can just ‘pop up after work’. So they don’t believe it takes 5 hours and that we own a portkey or something.