Chauffeur Services in Portstewart

Few beaches in these islands still let you drive onto them; Portstewart Strand is one. Access there is managed by season and shifts with the tide, so it repays a check before setting out rather than arriving to find the ramp shut. Behind the dunes the links have hosted championship golf, and when that happens the entire coast between here and Portrush runs under a traffic plan instead of its usual easy-going arrangements.

Facing the open Atlantic, this shore keeps its own weather entirely. A bright morning becomes a squall by lunchtime and clears again inside the hour, which is why a touring day goes far better with a flexible order than a fixed one. Within an easy day of the promenade you have Castlerock and Mussenden Temple westward, Bushmills and the Causeway east, and the Glens further on should the light hold. Moving an itinerary suits us better than sitting out rain.

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.