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Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by stephenhuey »

version_five wrote: post #47

There is something very romantic about this - obviously there are other ways to make the trips, but somehow is feels more free and a bit furtive, like if you had to sneak out of town for some reason it's a good thing to know. I'm in Canada and I can't think of any meaningful distance you could cover in this way. Maybe Toronto-Barrie. Our cities are all so far apart, they are mostly isolated hubs and spokes. Curious i…

Depending on the timing of the bus schedules, you could just about make it from Maine to Florida in a day—actually over 30 hours but definitely to the Carolinas from Maine within 24 hours.

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by Kreotiko »

steve-benjamins wrote: post #79
Kreotiko wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point but I have travelled from London to South Italy on a vehicle called bus by their operators :)

You should consider taking back your comment about it being misleading— the author is from the UK— vernacular is different for busses and coaches. Misleading is a pretty negative thing to call someones story!

You are very much right, cheers

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by Marazan »

stephenhuey wrote: post #81
version_five wrote: post #47

There is something very romantic about this - obviously there are other ways to make the trips, but somehow is feels more free and a bit furtive, like if you had to sneak out of town for some reason it's a good thing to know. I'm in Canada and I can't think of any meaningful distance you could cover in this way. Maybe Toronto-Barrie. Our cities are all so far apart, they are mostly isolated hubs and spokes. Curious i…

Depending on the timing of the bus schedules, you could just about make it from Maine to Florida in a day—actually over 30 hours but definitely to the Carolinas from Maine within 24 hours.

This was done with local buses, not intercity buses.

You could get much, much further using coach routes.

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by bogomipz »

laumars wrote: post #30
Symbiote wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

London to Berlin is 26 hours with Eurolines. It says there is a change, but not where the change is.

The Megabus will take you from London Victoria to Prague in 19hrs https://bustickets.distribusion.com/connections/results?depa...

Interesting that the Prague journey is 7 hours less than Berlin which is closer. Is this just because the number of stops is greater on the Berlin route or something else?

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by wincy »

reedf1 wrote: post #14
yosito wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was puzzled by the fact that this person seems to have remained in England and didn't even make it to Scotland. I guess they were taking only public transport service busses and not express long distance busses. Seems a bit arbitrary to me.

Arbitrary in the exact same sense as seeing how far you can go in any form of transport?

I think the confusion arises because in the US we call anything that is a bus that takes you somewhere else “traveling by bus” which apparently long haul trips are called traveling by coach in the UK.

So as an American my first thought was “heck I could probably get to LA from Kansas on a 24 hour bus trip” and to see this person traveled only a few hundred KM was confusing until that was clarified for me.

I thought maybe they were gonna end up in Russia or something crazy because I have no sense of how big Europe is.

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by wincy »

Kreotiko wrote: post #67

The title is misleading, it should state that is within the U.K. You can get to south Italy from London in less than 24 hours. Edit: My fault, it is not misleading. I didn’t get the context of somebody using British English.

Despite them not intentionally misleading I was excited to read about someone’s trip to Italy on a bus or something. I rarely travel in the US because every place is kind of the same. Why travel 400 miles when I can get some McDonald’s right here?

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by yann2 »

version_five wrote: post #47

There is something very romantic about this - obviously there are other ways to make the trips, but somehow is feels more free and a bit furtive, like if you had to sneak out of town for some reason it's a good thing to know. I'm in Canada and I can't think of any meaningful distance you could cover in this way. Maybe Toronto-Barrie. Our cities are all so far apart, they are mostly isolated hubs and spokes. Curious i…

Depends on the company. The US has no dearth of characters. And most of them seem to travel by bus. One time I ended up next to a dude who would excitedly point out every prision along the highway he had been a guest at. Another time a "paranormal investigator" with a 2 inch thick binder of haunted houses and she wanted me to go through every page.

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by sandworm101 »

version_five wrote: post #47

There is something very romantic about this - obviously there are other ways to make the trips, but somehow is feels more free and a bit furtive, like if you had to sneak out of town for some reason it's a good thing to know. I'm in Canada and I can't think of any meaningful distance you could cover in this way. Maybe Toronto-Barrie. Our cities are all so far apart, they are mostly isolated hubs and spokes. Curious i…

If i was trying to sneek put of london i'd be more interested in how far i could go in 24h without being spotted on a camera. Canada would probably win that race.

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by dan-robertson »

Marazan wrote: post #83
stephenhuey wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depending on the timing of the bus schedules, you could just about make it from Maine to Florida in a day—actually over 30 hours but definitely to the Carolinas from Maine within 24 hours.

This was done with local buses, not intercity buses. You could get much, much further using coach routes.

Not really. They are buses with multiple stops rather than direct city-to-city coach connections but the X buses (eg X6, X7 from the route in the OP) are intercity routes.
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