Never within driving bloody distance though, is it? "Nearly 70-years ago, they were laid in the sand to stop the Nazis invading from the west. Now the tank traps built to protect Britain from Hitler's Panzer division have been uncovered on a beach after sand was washed away by the storms. The metal structures, built using a mixture of heavy chains and disused railway track, were exposed on a beach in Porthcawl, South Wales. The traps, several feet high, were set in 1940 when the country feared that Britain might be invaded after Dunkirk. They were part of a long coastal line of barricades to prevent enemy tanks from moving inland if they successfully reached the shores. Porthcawl historian Keith Morgan, who remembers the tank defences from when he was a child, said they were still visible until 1946 or 1947. He said: 'They were chains and old railway lines which were embedded upright in the beach. They would have been around six or seven feet above the level of the beach. 'I can remember them stretching from Swansea Bay all the way round to Porthcawl." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2566872/Second-World-War-anti-tank-defences-emerge-sand-storm-lashed-beach.html#ixzz2uIO5WUD6
According to Google maps it's only 436 miles and just under 7 hours. Might want to take two days but that's not a bad drive. My daughter goes to an instate school that's over a hundred miles further and a couple hours more. We don't drive up there every weekend but we have driven up a couple of times and she's in her freshman year.
