These days I'm (mostly) lucky, as the local folk club (for the last two years) is five minutes walk away from my door, and I'm resident singer and head raffle ticket seller there; additionally the small Electric Theatre is also five minutes walk away, and Electric Voices puts on quality acts there (and in Cranleigh and Farnham), so I'm spoiled for choice if I want to go to gigs as audience (other than the club of course, where I wear several hats). I also get to go and sit on the box office desk in Godalming ,10 -15 minutes away on the bus, for the monthly ceilidhs.

As I don't drive a car these days I hardly ever go to the club that I first started going to in 1990 - the Ram Club in Claygate. In those days I drove 21 miles up the A3, and 21 miles back every Friday;(probably less likely to go there these days, as the type of artist that they tend to book now doesn't really equate for the most part with my current tastes).Very occasionally I used to drive the 14 miles there and back to Dorking on a Wednesday, or slightly more regularly the longer journey to Bracknell Folk Club, and did the odd occasional floor spot at both clubs.

Other than that, I have been known to traipse up to London occasionally in the last year or so,to see the guest or down to Lewes (normally resulting in a 1.5 hour train journey down there, followed by a 1 hour car journey to Ashford to stay with the friend that goes with me.) Also obviously the occasional weekend trip to other events further afield.
If I had a car, then you can bet your bottom dollar that I'd probably be travelling a bit further afield and more often !!

Maybe next year??