Boecopter wrote:Not TOO far away, same end of the country anyway...
That reminds me of a trip I did with a friend of mine. We flew to Lands End, from Bourne Park in Hampshire. My friend and colleague is from Warrington, and has lived in Guildford for the past 27 years or so. To him, Warrington is a long way from Guildford, the distance seeming all the more because of his spiritual journey from working class Warrington lad to Guildford telecomms engineer. He also doesn't drive so a trip to Warrington is a planned trek on the trains rather than just jumping in a car and going.
The flight to Lands End took about 2.5 hours into a bit of a head wind.
Some time after the flight, he asked me how long it would take to fly to Warrington. I said about 2 hours. He remarked, a little surprised, that it was about the same as Lands End. He was even more surprised when I remarked, "No, Lands End is further". To him, Lands End is "the south" and thus it didn't compute that it could be further than Warrington.
I took an envelope to a map and marked with a pencil the distance from Bourne Park to Lands End. I then rotated the envelope so the mark ended up to the north of Warrington. He was bemused.
Lands End is even further from Guildford than it is from Bourne Park, by an hour's drive...