Chauffeur Services in Newtownabbey

Down at the southern end sits the York Street interchange, the busiest junction in Northern Ireland, and it defines mornings right across this area. Traffic off the M2, the M3 and the Westlink all arrives in the same place, and any delay there spreads north for several miles. Our chauffeurs plan around it as a matter of course: a half past nine appointment in the city means leaving at eight rather than a quarter past, and a northbound return after four is timed to miss the worst of it.

Step off the motorway and the area repays a slower look. Cave Hill and Belfast Castle stand immediately above, and no view over the lough anywhere near the city beats theirs. The shore path at Whiteabbey and the loughshore park at Jordanstown fill an easy hour. For something longer, half an hour through Carrickfergus brings you to the Antrim Coast Road, which makes this a surprisingly practical starting point for the Glens and the Causeway.

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.