Chauffeur Services in Kirkcaldy

Each April the esplanade closes for the Links Market, a street fair that has run here for centuries and is generally reckoned the longest of its kind in Europe. For roughly a week the seafront is out of use and the whole town reroutes inland, which catches out anyone working from a satnav rather than local knowledge. Journey times across Kirkcaldy rise noticeably during that period, and we simply plan around the closure and set collection points on the landward side instead.

The rest of the year the A92 does the work, running along the edge of the town between the Forth crossings and central Fife, quick between junctions and prone to queueing at them. Kirkcaldy station is a main-line stop with fast services to Edinburgh, which many guests find quicker than driving at peak. In strong winds, restrictions on the Queensferry Crossing push traffic round by Kincardine and add a solid half hour, so we watch the forecast before setting an airport departure.

Britain's weather does more to a long journey than its traffic does. Winter afternoons close in early, which matters when the last leg is a single-track road, and Highland and moorland routes can take substantially longer than a summer estimate suggests. We build that into the timings rather than discovering it together, and where a departure hour makes a schedule uncomfortable we will suggest a better one.

Demand follows the calendar. Bank holiday weekends, the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and the university terms that begin and end together all fill quickly, and the further from London a journey runs, the earlier a car should be committed to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.