Stephen wrote:
>> I thought you lived in England?  I didn't know there were 5-hour car 
>> rides there. 
> 
> You might be surprised then that England is a bit bigger than you thought. For
> instance it is about three hundred miles from London to Carlisle which is about
> a five hour drive at the speed limits of 70 mph on motorways and 60 on some dual
> carriageways. London to Penzance (where the pirates come from) is just over 300
> miles again about 5 hours. Penzance to Thurso at the far north of Scotland is
> 800 miles and fourteen and a half hours driving non stop. (OK Scotland is not in
> England but they both are in Britain :)

Embarrassingly I seem to have remembered the size more or less correctly 
but forgotten that people can drive north-south as well as east-west.

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