Chauffeur Services in Dungannon

Being the last motorway junction before the west, Dungannon is the natural place to pause on a long day. Traffic stacking back from the end of the M1 is a familiar sight at rush hour, and it is the roundabouts at the terminus that pinch, not the motorway itself. Bound for Enniskillen, we like to be through them before half past eight. Travelling east, we allow for a merge slower than any map will admit to.

There is more in the country round the town than visitors expect. Parkanaur and the Argory are inside twenty minutes, the western shore of Lough Neagh not much beyond, and the drive south through the Moy and Charlemont opens into the orchard country of north Armagh. Want a longer day? Fermanagh's lakes are within reach and sit comfortably as a return trip, whereas bolting on Donegal or the north coast turns that same day into a marathon. We will say so before you book it.

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.