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Rose Rouse
Dec 13, 2024
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  1. Lots of people said they wished they’d been on this bus. It took 50 days.

    ‘Did you know that between 1957 and 1976, there was a regular bus service between London and Calcutta, India? The 32,700km (I like the metric system, sorry), the 50-day, 2-way bus route is the longest in the world.

    The bus had sleeping berths and even a kitchen! You could travel wi…

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