No more work! No more school! The car is ready and the tank is full. Luggage all packed, drinks and sandwiches too. Today’s the day! The day we go to the seaside! Yaaaay! Ice cream for everyone! And you KNOW what day it is! Because you know everyone else is also going to the seaside, so you studied things and figured out the best day of the week to travel. It’s so obvious.To avoid all the hassle, to be there on time. We all agree. Don’t we?
Saturday – everybody is travelling on Saturday. It’s the first free day of the weekend and everyone is on the road. People going home from work in another city. Students coming back from school. People who are driving back to Germany or Poland, and want an extra day of rest before work. Saturday is the worst day, everybody knows. The worst day to travel.
Sunday – Traveling on God’s day?! You should be ashamed! You and the rest of the traffic jam, for everyone else, is also travelling on Sunday. It’s the last free day of the weekend and everyone is on the road. People are going back to work, back to school or driving back to Germany and Poland, trading extra rest for one more day in Croatia. The worst day to travel.
Monday – Everybody thinks that everybody else is travelling during the weekend, so all the people who don’t have to work or go to school decide to travel on Monday. They think they’re so smart, that they’ll avoid all the traffic, and that travelling will be a breeze. So they all travel on Monday and jam up all the highways. And because it’s the complete opposite of what they expected, they get anxious, which leads to more accidents, which bring… more traffic jams, creating this vicious traffic circle of despair. The worst day to travel.
Tuesday – You wanna avoid the weekend crowd and the post–weekend crowd, and you’re thinking ”Who is that crazy to travel on Tuesday?” Everyone is! Everyone is travelling on Tuesday. Everyone thinks that Tuesday is the mythical El Dorado of travel days, the Shangrila of fast traffic. All the real players are travelling on Tuesday. Too bad everyone thinks they’ve discovered Atlantis, so Tuesday is hell to travel. The streets are not just packed, they’re packed with people who’re still pretending everyone is right. ”You are also travelling on Tuesday? That’s smart!” I know, you’ve kept on saying that for the last 10 hours and we still haven’t passed Delnice. The worst day to travel.
Wednesday – You’re travelling on Wednesday? What are you? A sheik? A heir to the Habsburg throne? The nerve of these people.
Thursday – If you want to avoid the weekend stress, and aren’t naive enough to believe that Tuesday is the answer (hahahaha, ah, some people), you’re not enough of a psychopath to travel on Wednesday, you’re probably the kind of person that travels on Thursday. You’ll skip work on Friday. And that’s fine. I respect that. I’m kind of like that. I’d also love to travel on Thursday, because that seems smart and humble, and like you’re nice to your grandparents. But I hate to break it to you – but so is the rest of the world. Most people are nice and lovely. They try to be humble and smart. That is millions of years of evolution that has sharpened our intellect and grown our empathy. Humans are nice beings. So they all travel on Thursday. The worst day to travel.
Friday – The final day of the working week meets the first day of the weekend. Disaster. Everyone wants to avoid the weekend, and everyone wants to travel immediately. The unmovable object hit by an unstoppable force. You will not reach your destination till the end of Cenozoic. The worst day to travel.
Now that we all agree, what do you think is the best time of day to travel?
