What I want is ideas on how we can manage this.
things to consider
1) Different driving styles, some are faster than others,
2) Groups of Friends who want to travel together
3) different start times, some of us are early birds others like to stay in their beds longer.
4) At least one member of each group to own a sat nav system
5) Lunch time dinning habits, nice meal or service station sandwich
6) Do you want to stop at places of interest or beauty spots. photo opportunities etc
7) Do some of the single drivers want to stay together, or couples M&F stay together
8) Should we consider the age of the people before spliting into groups. some of you young nippers don't want to be in a group with oldies who smell of pee and broken biscuits (old to you is over 35 )
I would suggest that any group of friends who want to travel together should arrange their groups and let us know so we don't put you into another group. or you may wish to travel alone. (I did a few days of last years tour, I set off at 6am somedays to miss the traffic or get to the next resort early afternoon)
I will start, with suggested group types
1) Very fast, expert drivers early morning group
2) Very fast, expert drivers late morning group
3) Fast average drivers early morning group
4) Fast average drivers late morning group
5) Slowish, scenic pace average drivers early morning group
6) Slowish, scenic pace average drivers late morning group
Early morning is after first sitting of breakfast ie breakfast starts at 7.30am and hit the road around 8.00am
Late morning setting of around 8.30am -9.15am
with 4 cars in each group that would make 24 cars
I am definately not in the very fast group and lie somewhere between slow and fast but I am definately in the early morning group.