On Sunday evening we travelled just short of 1,000 miles from Tuscany to Gatwick in a fraction over 90 minutes.
Our travel time, by car, from Gatwick to our home in Oxfordshire, a mere 90 miles away, took just over three hours.
Amazing.
We would have caught the train except some decades ago that nice Dr Beeching decided that the place where we live didn’t need a train service.
So that’s OK then.
There are exactly 3 long distance train routes in New Zealand, each served once a day each way. For commuter trains there are exactly 2 cities with a total of about 6 lines between them. No motorway here takes longer than 30 minutes to traverse (when there’s light traffic).
When last in England, I several times drove the approx 80M from Lancing to Uxbridge in under an hour on a Friday evening. To drive the approx 10M from work to home here in Wellington, at the same time, would take about half that length of time.