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Technically you could probably get to Vienna, Austria in less than 24 hours by bus, and still have time to visit a Wiener Würstelstand and the opera, if your ti

Technically you could probably get to Vienna, Austria in less than 24 hours by bus, and still have time to visit a Wiener Würstelstand and the opera, if your timing and access to a shower is good. London -> Paris: 2hrs 25 min, Paris-> Vienna: 17 hr 53 min.

yosito 5y ago
I was puzzled by the fact that this person seems to have remained in England and didn't even make it to Scotland. I guess they were taking only public transport service busses and not express long distance busses. Seems a bit arbitrary to me.
- AndrewDucker 5y ago
  In the UK that kind of service is known as a "coach" rather than a "bus" generally.
  - mxmilkiib 5y ago
    I remember way back when the Megabus from Edinburgh to London was the same type of bus as the one I used to go to school on :) And it cost 1 quid (plus 50p booking iirc). Also, for GP, afaiu, the rules in Scotland are kinder (includes long distance) https://www.transport.gov.scot/concessionary-travel/60plus-or-disabled https://www.transport.gov.scot/concessionary-travel/60plus-o... P.S. Hi Andy!
    - martin-adams 5y ago
      £1 plus 50p booking ads used to annoy me. It’s £1.50-that’s the price!
      - motiejus 5y ago
        The booking fee is per booking, not per ticket (at least it was about a decade ago when I last did this route with megabus). So technically the ticket price can be as close to £1 as you want it to be.
    - goeiedaggoeie 5y ago
      I took that coach often and when I finally started making money I decided to splurge on the sleeper train and in time upgraded to a cabin. what luxury compared to megabus!
      - megablast 5y ago
        You could have booked the entire bus instead.
- reedf1 5y ago
  Arbitrary in the exact same sense as seeing how far you can go in any form of transport?
  - wincy 5y ago
    I think the confusion arises because in the US we call anything that is a bus that takes you somewhere else “traveling by bus” which apparently long haul trips are called traveling by coach in the UK. So as an American my first thought was “heck I could probably get to LA from Kansas on a 24 hour bus trip” and to see this person traveled only a few hundred KM was confusing until that was clarified for me. I thought maybe they were gonna end up in Russia or something crazy because I have no sense of how big Europe is.
    - Symbiote 5y ago
      Europe includes a lot more water than the USA (North Sea, Baltic Sea, half the Mediterranean Sea), which is obviously a barrier to a land journey, and makes a direct comparison difficult. But otherwise, something like Lisbon to Moscow is very similar to the distance of LA to NYC. Google's driving directions for these are 45 and 41 hours, respectively.
zimpenfish 5y ago
> London -> Paris: 2hrs 25 min I'd say that was technically cheating since at least part of that journey isn't going to strictly be on a bus (or coach.)
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  > I'd say that was technically cheating since at least part of that journey isn't going to strictly be on a bus (or coach.) You know coaches can go straight through the Channel Tunnel? They board a special train.
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  - willyt 5y ago
    It takes about 2hrs to drive to the tunnel from London. The high speed train does London to Paris in 2hr25. I’m guessing it takes about 7hrs by express coach.
    - e12e 5y ago
      Looks like 8h30 to 9h based on a couple of searches..
    - carlsborg 5y ago
      Quite right. That's the Eurostar time not the bus. My bad. Salzburg might still work though!
  - zimpenfish 5y ago
    > You know coaches can go straight through the Channel Tunnel? They board a special train. a) That's a coach, not a bus, and b) that's using a train to go through the tunnel and not strictly (by my definition at least) on a bus (or coach.)
    - chrisseaton 5y ago

yosito 5y ago

I was puzzled by the fact that this person seems to have remained in England and didn't even make it to Scotland. I guess they were taking only public transport service busses and not express long distance busses. Seems a bit arbitrary to me.

AndrewDucker 5y ago
In the UK that kind of service is known as a "coach" rather than a "bus" generally.
- mxmilkiib 5y ago
  I remember way back when the Megabus from Edinburgh to London was the same type of bus as the one I used to go to school on :) And it cost 1 quid (plus 50p booking iirc). Also, for GP, afaiu, the rules in Scotland are kinder (includes long distance) https://www.transport.gov.scot/concessionary-travel/60plus-or-disabled https://www.transport.gov.scot/concessionary-travel/60plus-o... P.S. Hi Andy!
  - martin-adams 5y ago
    £1 plus 50p booking ads used to annoy me. It’s £1.50-that’s the price!
    - motiejus 5y ago
      The booking fee is per booking, not per ticket (at least it was about a decade ago when I last did this route with megabus). So technically the ticket price can be as close to £1 as you want it to be.
  - goeiedaggoeie 5y ago
    I took that coach often and when I finally started making money I decided to splurge on the sleeper train and in time upgraded to a cabin. what luxury compared to megabus!
    - megablast 5y ago
      You could have booked the entire bus instead.
reedf1 5y ago
Arbitrary in the exact same sense as seeing how far you can go in any form of transport?
- wincy 5y ago
  I think the confusion arises because in the US we call anything that is a bus that takes you somewhere else “traveling by bus” which apparently long haul trips are called traveling by coach in the UK. So as an American my first thought was “heck I could probably get to LA from Kansas on a 24 hour bus trip” and to see this person traveled only a few hundred KM was confusing until that was clarified for me. I thought maybe they were gonna end up in Russia or something crazy because I have no sense of how big Europe is.
  - Symbiote 5y ago
    Europe includes a lot more water than the USA (North Sea, Baltic Sea, half the Mediterranean Sea), which is obviously a barrier to a land journey, and makes a direct comparison difficult. But otherwise, something like Lisbon to Moscow is very similar to the distance of LA to NYC. Google's driving directions for these are 45 and 41 hours, respectively.

zimpenfish 5y ago

> London -> Paris: 2hrs 25 min I'd say that was technically cheating since at least part of that journey isn't going to strictly be on a bus (or coach.)

chrisseaton 5y ago
> I'd say that was technically cheating since at least part of that journey isn't going to strictly be on a bus (or coach.) You know coaches can go straight through the Channel Tunnel? They board a special train.
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- willyt 5y ago
  It takes about 2hrs to drive to the tunnel from London. The high speed train does London to Paris in 2hr25. I’m guessing it takes about 7hrs by express coach.
  - e12e 5y ago
    Looks like 8h30 to 9h based on a couple of searches..
  - carlsborg 5y ago
    Quite right. That's the Eurostar time not the bus. My bad. Salzburg might still work though!
- zimpenfish 5y ago
  > You know coaches can go straight through the Channel Tunnel? They board a special train. a) That's a coach, not a bus, and b) that's using a train to go through the tunnel and not strictly (by my definition at least) on a bus (or coach.)
  - chrisseaton 5y ago