Chauffeur Services in Canterbury

Running clockwise around the walls, the ring road is a one way system that you overshoot easily and correct slowly, which is exactly why we agree set down points instead of trusting to the moment. Most through traffic uses Rheims Way and the A28 towards Ashford, and both queue at the peaks and on Saturdays. The A2 up to London moves fast and the M2 beyond it is usually dependable, though any Channel disruption at Dover pushes freight onto it and adds time with no warning.

For several days at a stretch, graduation weeks pack the cathedral, the hotels and every road inside the walls, and cricket week at the county ground does the same, as does the arts festival in autumn. Coach parties come in from mid morning through the season and take the main approaches. Out towards Chilham, Bridge and Wingham, where the country houses and vineyards are, the lanes narrow and bend blind, so we ask for a landmark, since several drives are unmarked from the road.

On a long journey, Britain's weather does more damage than its traffic ever will. Winter afternoons close in early, and that matters a great deal when the final leg is a single-track road. Highland and moorland routes can run substantially longer than any summer estimate suggests. Those allowances go into the timings from the start, rather than being discovered together halfway up a glen. Where a departure hour makes the schedule uncomfortable, we propose a better one.

Demand tracks the calendar closely. Bank holiday weekends fill fast, so do the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and those university terms that all begin and end together. The further from London a journey runs, the sooner a car wants committing to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months, by contrast, is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.