Chauffeur Services in King's Lynn

East of Lynn the A47 runs single carriageway for long stretches, and behaves as you would expect. Stuck behind a slow lorry between Middleton and Swaffham there is very little to be done, which is why anything crossing Norfolk gets quoted generously rather than optimistically. Going south, the sensible line to Cambridge and the M11 is the A10 through Downham Market and Ely, though the Ely and Milton approaches slow through the late afternoon. West towards Sutton Bridge and Lincolnshire, the A17 is the other main artery.

Come the season, the A149 becomes a different road altogether. From late spring, day traffic fills the coast road through Dersingham, Snettisham and Heacham, and Hunstanton on a warm bank holiday crawls both ways. Sandringham open days pile on top. Flying out of Stansted on a summer Saturday, we would sooner leave before the coast wakes up than pick our way through it later, and we will say plainly whenever a schedule looks tighter than it ought to be.

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.