Invited to our daughter's at Epsom for Christmas. Initially, we intended to go by train, but after the chaos on the railways over the previous few days, decided to drive.
Set off just after lunch on Christmas eve and despite motorway limits on the M1 from j13-J10, everything kept moving. There were no delays on the M25 around M4-M40-Heathrow (for the first time I can remember) and I can't recall seeing any LGVs. Went on past Wisley and found our way from the next exit. One of the quickest journeys I've made down there!
Returning on the 27th (colleague's funeral), took an hour to reach the M25. Three hours on the M25-M1 which I abandodned at J9 and found our way via Luton and A6. Kept looking for other routes, but they were all showing longer times. Missed the funeral! Heard later that there were no East Midland trains and Thameslink delays, due to overrunning engineering works, so may still have been the fastest option - Four hours to do eighty miles!
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