What is the furthest you have traveled without using a plane on any part of the journey?

[raythechay]

to France

Northern England to Naples. Trains, ferry, more trains.

Not from UK but my 2 longest car trips have been roughly 2500 miles (just over 4000km), without kids and 1900 miles (about 3000km) with kids. That includes areas of pretty rough terrain too.

Always highly amused on UK forums where people describe driving long distances (calling out wedding threads in particular where they claim they need to stay unpretentious days to drive a small distance), when that’s really small distances to us.

Regularly drive to southern Spain from Wiltshire, sometimes using the ferry to Spain sometimes going into France. About 1200 miles of driving each way plus the ferry.

I know some people who did this as young children also. Think it took six weeks.

Sydney-Perth by train.

Timbuktu then flew back from Bamako. Also drove to The Gambia and flew back.

London-Calais-Paris-Berlin-Warsaw-Krakow-Lublin-Berlin and back via Hook of Holland

When I started work in the mid 70s I used to commute home via Victoria station and see that train announcement on the board. Job was shit and I used to fantasise about hopping onto the train and leaving it behind.

London to the former Yugoslavia many times in my childhood.

Either London - Barcelona (in a one-er) or san Francisco - Vancouver (over a couple of weeks)
Or san Diego - Oregon also over a couple of weeks.

Yep. Stopped off at some amazing places though and the "crossing the Equator" ceremony was something I will never forget.

UK to Spain

Rome via train

Just out of interest, we all move 584 million miles each year as the earth moves around the sun.
Of course, that's just 'local' travel, the whole solar system travels about 4.5 billion miles around the centre of the Milky Way each year.

Palermo (Sicily) and Narvik (Norway, beyond the Arctic Circle) on the same Interrailing holiday, while a student.

Have plans to drive overland to Georgia once I retire (via Balkans, Greece, Turkey, etc.)

Also done all the way to Kirkenes (also Norway, near the Russian border) on the Hurtigruten (Norwegian Post ship).

Driving-wise, we did about 3,400 miles around Europe last Autumn (majority of that in 2 weeks) - UK - Spain (by ferry), then driving Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, France, UK.

Drove an aid truck to the Ukrainian border with Poland.

France to Hong Kong via Moscow - Beijing - Western China, by train and bus - over thirty years ago.
Also hitchhiked from Belgium to SE Turkey 34 years ago when I was 18 - madness looking back!

Portland to San Francisco

By bus from Scotland to

Italy
Spain
Belgium x 2
France x 2

Eurostar to Paris and then sleeper train to Latour de Carol and then local train to Barcelona.

I sometimes drive from London to Stockholm, so that really.

A coach to Germany when I was in school...about 15 hours each way, 700 odd miles.

As an adult it would be a drive to Scotland or Paris...both about the same distance from us.

Manchester - Amsterdam

on a coach. With 50 other uni freshers. Worst 17 hours of my life

To a little hill village just outside Rome, about 35 years ago. Wish I could remember the name of it. We arrived in Rome to a train strike so had a fun time trying to get to the village! Crossing Paris was a bit stressy but the rest was easy peasy. Days before Eurotunnel so walked on and off ferry and to train station.

To Costa Blanca Spain every year when DC were little (and we had a dog).