The Oil Drum

One of the benefits of a full English Breakfast in a hotel is that it gives you time to explore more of the Telegraph, and so I found David Millward's piece on Roman travel, which turns out to be quite on topic. It appears, according to a study by Andreas Schäfer, that we spend as much time traveling on average, as they did in Roman times, about 5% (or 1.2 hours a day). And apparently this is an almost Universal truth. Which seemed somewhat relevant to note on a day that took me some 3 hours to return to the ancestral village in Scotland this morning, a total distance of not much more than a hundred miles.