Think like a trucker: 15 ways to survive Britain’s summer of holiday queues and delays | Family
For British travelers, the summer of 2022 seems destined to be remembered as the season of waiting: queuing for passport control, parking on motorways, sleeping in airports or staring down tracks in fond hope of spotting a non-cancelled train. Getting there and back used to be the most tedious part of the holiday. Increasingly, it is the holidays.
How can you keep yourself and your loved ones occupied and amused during the Great Standstill? Here are 15 tips from the professionals:
Always carry baby wipes
This sound advice comes not from a parenting expert, but from Dougie Rankine, editor of Truck & Driver, the UK’s bestselling trucking magazine. “One of the most versatile and important items a motorist can have,” he says. If you need to know why, try traveling without them. The first time you forget the baby wipes will be the first time everybody in the back