What has been your longest journey since the pandemic started?

[MeiganMcSeinna6]

I haven't been out of my town since march 2020

@BunsyGirl

About 2000 miles…to Malta. Aside from wearing masks and showing our vaccine certs on arrival, everything was pretty much back to normal in the airport.

Yes I went to Malta this summer. Not somewhere I’d considered before but it was absolutely lovely!

Cornwall from the midlands this summer and last. I can’t be bothered to go abroad at the moment, with all the faff testing, masks on planes and so on - so the situation has significantly reduced how much I travel, but I’m not going to let it stop me within the U.K.

About 300 miles for a holiday.

It doesn’t sound healthy to have not left your home town for almost 18 months…don’t you have any friends or family in the next town over even?

I worked out of the house throughout so traveled 25 miles each way every day so can’t get my head around this. Unless it will turn out your home town is London or something

The one I’m still on!
The whole length of Italy and back at the most popular time with accidents and holdups to navigate every hour or so. We’ve split what should be an 11hr drive into two days (12+12) so if we leave early we should be home tonight about 8.
Never again.

We also went 5hrs away and 2 hrs away last Summer.

Currently in Croatia.
Feel like an uncaged animal. God it's marvellous.

4 hour flight to Crete 🇬🇷😎. Here now and it’s lovely!

3 hour drive to see family last summer. Have travelled 1 to 1 1/2 hours away throughout for reasons related to ds.

Last year Northumberland and Somerset, this year Devon, Norfolk and London. I guess Devon.
Hoping to get on a plane soon!

Shetlands, about as far as you can get from here without a passport. I leave my town daily to go to work!

Went to Spain for a week last summer.
Went to Scotland for 5 days this summer.

As an aside, can anyone guess which trip was more expensive?

For 15 months we didn’t travel more than 10 miles from where we lived and for much of that stayed within a 2 mile radius (we live in London).

But in June, DMIL was given weeks to live so we spent a week just outside Edinburgh with her. DH also went up when she had days left to be with her at the end, and we went up again as a family for her funeral.

Last November we drove from Yorkshire to Glasgow to fly to gran canaria (and the same trip back). At the time non-residential travel was banned from England but not Scotland so when I needed to get out there for genuine non-holiday reasons (family issues!) it turned into a bit of an epic.

Other than that it would be a holiday in Devon last October.

Non-essential travel, not non-residential!

1000 mile journey, car & ferry to property in Spain.
Will do same on return journey in October.
Did the same trip last year, so total mileage = 4000 miles.

Been about 800 miles away within UK (including ferries) this year and last. Several 300 mile plus trips as well.
I don't think I know anytime who hasn't even left their town (even friend who is still shielding has been to hospitals in other places).

Went 500 miles (and back) for a family emergency. Included an overnight ferry each way.

Dubai and USA for work, not sure which is further. Travelled to Europe a few times for both work and holiday.
There are people in my team at work who since going to work from home in March 2020 have sat in front of their laptops at home all day everyday and their only trip out of the house has been to and from kids schools/nursery etc and/or food shopping.
They don't have a fear of covid per se but have just got massively out of the habit of being in the world and now are finding it all a bit difficult to reacclimatise. V glad I kept using public transport, going to the office, getting out of my immediate neighborhood throughout. The longest I went without getting on a train was 3 months right at the beginning and that was more than enough!

Why do you ask @MeiganMcSeinna6?

OP I can’t work out if your post is some sort of underhand brag that you haven’t left your town for all that time but if it is I can assure you it impresses no one! Is there a reason you haven’t left? I’m the opposite I don’t think there has been a time throughout this where I haven’t left my town, parents and PILs both live over 70 miles away and have made regular trips throughout. 3 trips to Cornwall. Trips to the Suffolk and Devon coast, Wales, visiting friends all over the UK. And finally abroad in September!!

Loads of people have to leave their town every single day for work.

Neither me nor DH drive so it's all public transport for us.

My longest journey on a bus was last summer, 40 minutes to get to a town about 12 miles away. I've done two shorter journeys to the coast (about 8 miles). Other than that I've not been more than three miles from my house since early March last year. That's fairly standard for me, though, even pre-pandemic. We usually have one or two weekend UK city breaks through the year (never been on a proper holiday though) - we ended up losing the money we spent booking one last autumn, so we haven't booked this year. Can't afford to lose any more money unfortunately.

Midlands to Cornwall

Drove across France for 9 or 10 hours for a holiday last summer and again this year, to a different place. It doesn’t count as leaving the country as we live here anyway but definitely felt quite far!

Corfu, although the faff of paperwork wasn't much fun, and that would be the only thing restricting me
Looking to take ds on a UK break closer to Xmas
Is this a competition for who has been the best citizen during covid ?

6 hour train journey to Scotland to visit family.