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« Last post by kjslaughter on Today at 10:34:50 am »My wife and I took our first real international trip the past two weeks (not counting cruises 12 years ago) to the United Kingdom. The bulk of our travels were on rail between Manchester, York, Edinburgh and London, but I was able to get some large chunk of roads in Scotland via a small group tour to the Western Highlands. We took a large loop from Edinburgh west on M9 past Stirling Castle, then loop mostly on A811, A82, A83, A85 & A84 past Loch Lomond to far point of Inverary before return through Callander and Doune. Sadly I couldn't talk the driver to divert route to cross one of the Firth of Forth of bridges. :-( I'm shocked to see I now rank 22nd in Scotland! Also rode a tram in Edinburgh that got me some miles, sightseeing bus loops in York and London and a few roads just walking around York and London neighborhoods. I was surprised by the highway density within London as opposed to so many U.S. cities where highways are routed around or co-routed through cities (except I guess Kentucky!). While the Underground is also very efficient, hard to clinch highways that way.
