Some wisdom from Simon Brunning: Oh, and trains are better than cars ‘cos even if they are horribly delayed, you can entertain your children and let them go to the loo, cutting down on the strop count considerably.
See also where I wrote the following comment:
Remember that you think travelling by car is more comfortable because you’re a driver. Passengers don’t generally get to choose air conditioning (I can on a (modern) train), music, and rear-seated passengers are often greeted with the view of the seat in front for hours at a time. Try going to the loo in a car, or, as a driver, going to sleep which I do twice a day on the way to and from work after reading my book for a bit. As a passenger, I don’t like being in a car, as much for the smell and car-sickness as the inability to move round. I’m glad to have taken the little one by train as at least he can run up and down for 3 hours if he wants.
Not that we let him run round much anymore, but he can squirm with a certain degree of freedom, as can I.