Some people under estimate a country's size

Yes, I can back up that story; it's a very common one. There are similar ones on our tourism websites, often quite funny, but one does feel sorry for the tourists involved. We cope with long distances very well, because that's how we were brought up. I grew up in the "middle of nowhere". Even grocery shopping took an entire day trip for just a handfull of essentials. To get to the capital city, we had to leave home at 4am & maybe only get back by 8pm that day. I believe the best way to see the country is by caravan or something similar, like an RV. I hope to be able to do that one day. I often take internal flights. The planes are not as good for domestic flights. They are often in disrepair, fly much lower to the ground, are slower, make a lot of strange noises & suffer from turbulance, etc. We have some unusual flight routes which make the journey take longer, but are necessary so that if the plane crashes, we'd end up near a settled area with some hope of immediate rescue. The service on said flights is not nearly as good & the food & entertainment options are very minimal.

I guess living here in the UK we have it a lot easier than places liek that don't we for travel around our own country?! I have a work colleague due to go to Australia this weekend and she is going for 4 whole weeks - I am very jealous of her trip and I am sure she will have an amazing time seeing all the sights and she is too doing lots of internal flights to get around although she is saving loads on hotel costs by staying with family in many places.

I didn't realize that our country the UK is so small in comparison with countries like Australia, you look on a map and you don't realize that there are thousands of miles between places that look so close on the map! What always complicates things for me is the different time zones, especially with the USA. All those time zones are confusing. Often there are questions on quiz shows about the size of a country compared to others, I never seem to get the answer right, my geography is brilliant in my own country but when it comes to other countries I haven't a clue!

I live in India, and its pretty big, i am not sure exactly how big it is but i know its big enough to take internal flights and i have taken several flights to visit my relatives, vacations etc. Never under estimated though. :}

Well, I live in the U.S. so I do know about internal flights... Heck, I've flown from Dallas to Houston, Houston to Austin and Austin to Dallas - not as a single trip but different ones. I even once flew from San Antonio to Austin, but that's because the dumb airline had us overfly Austin to San Antonio from Chicago before flying back up to Austin. So, I've even taken internal flights in TEXAS! In Texas we don't tend to say how many miles something is, we talk about hours. Its an hour to San Antonio from Austin. Its three hours to Houston and four to Dallas from Austin.

Our country is a group of islands, so usually are main transportation method is by land or sea. If you want a faster one, then take an airplane or take a ship for longer travel. Internal flight is very common for us..