Funny, I feel the exact same way about driving. We normally travel to visit family in Poland over christmas(we live in the UK), but the thought of airports and

Funny, I feel the exact same way about driving. We normally travel to visit family in Poland over christmas(we live in the UK), but the thought of airports and air travel around christmas is filling me with such dread, that we decided to drive this year - and it was glorious. Yes it took us nearly 3 days instead of 2 hours by plane, but I would do that again in a heartbeat. Overnight ferry to Amsterdam, then one hop to a hotel in Germany, then finally drive to family in Poland - it was great, pretty relaxing, and much much much less stressful than flying. I've done the drive across many times before, but now we decided to have a stop in the middle(we have a kid now, so didn't want to spend 12h+ in the car in one day) and it made the whole trip much more relaxed. We stopped in some small German village, had a look around their christmas market, went for proper German good in a tiny gesthaus.....just brilliant.