Chauffeur Services in Colchester

Everything hangs off the A12. Junctions 26 through 29 all serve Colchester, and each one puts you down in a completely different quarter, so picking the right exit buys back more minutes than any amount of brisk driving. Ring roads circling the centre move slowly; the streets inside them move slower again. Head southbound towards Chelmsford and the improvement works, which have run on and on, leave journey times uneven from one week to the next. That's why the chauffeur checks conditions on the morning itself instead of trusting an old estimate.

Coastwards, two roads carry the traffic: the A133 heading for Clacton and the B1025 dropping south to Mersea. The Strood causeway onto Mersea Island goes under water on high spring tides and shuts altogether for a spell either side of them, so any island journey gets quoted only after we've read the tide tables. University term begins and ends on particular weekends, and those fill the northern approaches for the better part of a day. Ferry sailings do much the same to the A120 towards Harwich.

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.