Although this delightful little island you call home is only about half the size of my uncle Wayneo's Northern Territory cattle station it still seems to take at least half a day to actually travel anywhere by car. It took me almost 3 hours to travel from Hammersmith to Oxford the other day by car. Last week it took us 45 mins to travel from a takeaway in Willesden to our Dollis Hill sharehouse during which time our Battered Savs had gone cold. What the hell is wrong with this country?

As RLFans biggest legend sat in the back of the car stuck in yet another hold up silently cursing the day he ever came to the UK he had another fantastic idea.

Why dont we share information on decent bed and breakfasts/Cheap hotels to stay in around the UK as we travel to watch the footy?

Example...from Dollis Hill to London is about 210 miles. Given pommie driving conditions this will take about 6 hours ... if not more. So then you watch the footy, have a few beers, a takeway ...and then you have a 6 hour trek back to London.

Example 2... Dollis Hill to Wrexham to watch the Wrexham Crusaders ...just under 200 miles. Journey time...probably about the same travelling time as a trip to Hull. Thats 12 hours of my life I will never get back wasted by sitting in a car on some shonky pommie motorway.

Now I know that anyone on this board would be more than happy to put Barry McKenzie and his mates up for a night in their own houses. And who could blame them?

However Barry McKenzie would sooner pay his own way and sleep in a bed and breakfast. At least then I wouldnt feel so bad about bringing a sheila back or vomiting all over the wall to wall.

Good idea?

There must be some good bed and breakfasts that people on here have used whilst travelling to SL games around the place they could recommend?

I don't know what I thought your good idea was going to be, but it wasn't that.

I know what you mean Jimmy I've had that many




This has to be one of the best though.


I've stayed in hotels around this country that make Guantanamo Bay detention centre look like the Hilton.


Maybe if people on here can recommend good ones they have stayed in before it might help a few weary travellers out.

Bates' Motel would be a great place for you to stay.

I hear in Huddersfield thats considered a 5 star resort.

On the odd occasion I do an overnight stay (evening game for instance) what do you reckon the odds are of me choosing to ruin the weekend by recommending the place I'm stopping at to "Barry McKenzie and his mates*"?


* yeah, right.

Better than average?

Hey if we stayed in the same B&B I could pitch a few ideas to you about how to improve this site a little bit over a few cold ones and a footy frank with tomato sauce dip?

You've never been to Huddersfield have you?

When I read the thread title, for one golden moment I thought he was gonna put his head in a gas oven

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Actually......yes

That's because one country is full of stuff that roads have to go AROUND and the other is made up mostly of sheep droppings, backpackers' bodies and lands sacred to the indigenous population, that the roads go straight OVER.

trouble with this country we let any tom, dick, or barry in.

That's not saying much is it? 12 x 0 is ............ well, nothing. So nothing lost. Take some food for when you're stuck on our motorways - we don't regard roadkill as haute cuisine over here.

Especially rats

Barry McKenzie can only assume that from that comment you havent sampled the delightful 'Chunky Steak' pie at Birchanger Green Services on the M11 near Stansted Airport



Road Kill at 'Haute Cuisine' prices

This may have been asked before, but if Oz is so superior to GB, why don't you live there. Surely this would be best for everyone?

Allegedly he's been asked over here because they don't have the skilled workforce here for his particular job. Personally, i think the Zoological Society of London asked him to come over for their marsupial breeding program.

He's not an aussie.
He's an old regular user who's changed name and got a bit wackier

I'm doing some mature studying in Willesden, Dudden Hill Lane up to Neasden shopping centre is always bad in the rush hour. I walk the last mile purely because it's quicker than the traffic crawl.
London traffic is W---

Barry

It's just London that's crap. Took me 80 minutes to get from Craven Cottage to the M4 the other Saturday.

That's nothing. Apparently it takes Barry six hours to drive from Dollis Hill (London) to "London". Though I'm not sure what route he's taking if he covers 210 miles doing it.