#60 - It's possible to drive to Manhattan ISLAND via the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel. It's possible to get to Galveston ISLAND by taking the Galveston Island Ferry. In both cases, you'd say you'd driven there despite the fact that you'd crossed bodies of water in the process. Same thing in this case. There is a train tunnel that runs under the English Channel that takes cars. You drive from a starting point in continental Europe to a finishing point in the UK with only a tiny section taken up by the Channel crossing. Oh, and in France, a Métro is specifically a mass-transit rail system within a city. The trains that run through the Channel Tunnel are a totally different concept.

Most people go to Galveston Island via the bridge. At least, I do. Just throwing that out there. There is a ... considerable difference in the distance that must be crossed over the ocean. Not all of us know what the Channel Tunnel is, but I wish it was taught to us.

Exactly Freeze. Your #65 post was polite, enquiring and understandable. People can't be expected to know everything about everything, hence my straight answer to that one. #60's post was argumentative, belligerent, and most importantly - wrong, so I was less polite in my response. You're totally correct that there's a big difference between the Galveston Island Ferry and the Channel Tunnel, and I know it's not the main route to Galveston Island, but #60 is from the Gulf Coast, so I was looking for an example close to home. For a massive water crossing by car in the US, there's always Route 1 in the Florida Keys, which is a hell of a lot further than from France to the UK. The main point about saying it was a 'drive' to England still stands. This was a thousand mile journey, of which only a tiny part is done by ferry or train. The OP didn't catch the train from Poland, didn't fly, walk or whatever. There really is no other way to say it in this context.

Well, I was kind of thinking that, too. I remember seeing something on the Discovery channel about a train being built in a tunnel underground so I had to go search and refresh my memory on it. What I don't understand is that the tunnel is a train, not a road, so OP driving there seems... off. I guess driving to the train makes sense, but it wouldn't really be a drive to England.

65 - It is a train. You can board the train or hook/board your car onto the train. A lot of people choose to do so. However the ride isn't long.

#65/Freeze - it works by you driving to the terminal on the French side of the Channel, putting your car on the train, and driving it off at the other side in the UK. It might be easier to think of it with the analogy of a car-carrying ferry boat, only the transport method is different. In the case of this trip, the Chunnel represents about 30-some-odd miles of a journey of about 1000 miles, and you're with your car the whole time, so it's totally reasonable to think of it as driving there. Alternatively, there are several actual ferries that cross the Channel, depending on what the most convenient start and finish points are for you. Up until a few years ago, you could also do the trip by hovercraft.

Retard. Don't you read the other posts?

Or they took the Chunnel. :p

no they teleported i wish ppl were smarter

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