Chauffeur Services in Guildford

Where the M25 meets the A3 at Wisley, junction ten forms the local bottleneck, and it has been altered over a long period, so the approach does not always match what a map remembers of it. Queues build northbound from around seven and southbound from four. In the town, most through traffic runs along the Ladymead and Stoke Road stretch of the A25, and the ring road slows during the same hours. Should the A3 be blocked, we take the A320 through Woking.

West of town, up on the hill, the Surrey Research Park and the university keep internal roads and barriered entrances of their own, and locating one particular building there is a good deal harder than locating the site, which is why we ask for the building name. Cathedral events, degree ceremonies and theatre nights all fill the same car parks at once. Eastward, Wisley and the villages along the A25 towards Shere and Gomshall run narrow, pretty and slow on a summer Sunday.

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.