Check out the lockdown road trip route that will take you from London to New Zealand in the time we’ve spent in lockdown
Hoo, the hotel room offer platform, has put together a worldwide ‘road trip’ route that will take you from London to New Zealand by car, based on a timeline covering the length of lockdown restrictions in England.
With the lockdown restrictions ensuring we have spent an unprecedented amount of time indoors, Hoo based their road trip timeline on the length of the lockdown across England from the first lockdown at the end of March last year, through the second, and the time we’ve spent in the third, up until the end of February 2021.
The rather depressing figures show that by the end of February, we had spent 184 days in lockdown across the three separate stints, although at 199 days, it’s been worse for those in Wales.
So, dreaming of the better days ahead, Hoo set to work looking at how far you could travel around the world by car during these 184 days, or 4,416 hours, once travel restrictions are eased.
The Trip
Hoo’s trip includes stops at 44 stops around the world, covering Europe, Russia, Africa, South Africa, Turkey, Georgia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, with time left to take a flight back to London at the end of it all.
Lockdown Road Trip Route – Europe
The trip takes you from capital city to capital city by car, with the exception of Aus and New Zealand which take in a number of cities.
There are also three boat trips required to take you across the Strait of Gibraltar and from Singapore to Perth, as well as from Sydney to Auckland.
The road trip isn’t just about driving though, and at each and every destination, Hoo has also factored in a 72-hour stopover for rest and relaxation.
Lockdown Road Trip Route – AfricaIn addition, there are some very challenging drives and so any stint of the journey requiring more than 14 hours behind the wheel has also been attributed eight hours of pitstop time. Hoo increased this to 12 hours for the two most challenging parts of the journey, Addis Ababa to Cairo (76 hours) and Tbilisi to Islamabad (78 hours).
