We all know what the first Bank Holiday of the year – and the last one, for that matter is like - absolutely insane! Motorways stuffed to bursting with cars. Cars stuffed with families. The tradition of bank holiday weekend breaks can be as hard to enjoy as it is to get to!
There are ways of beating the crowds and enjoying yourself without hassle of course. Number one on your tactical list should be the possibility of leaving for your holiday a day early and staying a day later. The majority of Bank Holiday weekend breaks are taken from Friday to Monday (so Friday night until Monday morning) – which means travelling along with most of the rest of the country.
If you are going to a popular tourist destination the roads just get worse and worse – starting with the motorway, which is full of people going to hundreds of different places, and then culminating with A roads near where you are going, which are chock full of people all trying to get to the same place.