Chauffeur Services in Newry

As the pivot of the Belfast to Dublin route, Newry has its journeys quoted against the direction of travel and the day of the week. Two patterns are worth planning around: northbound on a Monday morning, southbound on a Friday afternoon. Outside those, the A1 moves well. The station sits a little outside the city at Bessbrook, which catches out visitors expecting to walk straight into the centre, so we meet trains there and finish the journey by road.

Head east and the Mourne coast starts almost at once. Through Warrenpoint and Rostrevor the road runs beside Carlingford Lough with the mountains standing directly above, then carries on to Kilkeel and Newcastle, which is about as rewarding an hour's driving as the province offers. Inland, the Ring of Gullion loops through Forkhill and Camlough on narrow hedged roads. Give it a full day, take the coast out and the hills back, and from spring onwards you finish comfortably before dark.

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.