Six Nations 2027. Six weekends, two home grounds, and nowhere to park at either.

Twickenham is a very large stadium dropped into a quiet corner of south west London. On match day Rugby Road, Whitton Road and parts of London Road close, spectator parking at the ground is a small pre booked allocation, and the surrounding borough is residents only and enforced. The traffic does not so much jam as simply stop, in both directions, for about ninety minutes either side of the whistle.

Murrayfield is different again. It is barely a mile and a half from the west end of Princes Street, so the stadium is inside the city rather than outside it. There is no parking at the ground and none in the streets around it on matchdays, road closures run from roughly three hours before kick off to about four hours after, and the tram runs to a stop beside the Roseburn Street entrance. In Edinburgh the winning move is usually to be dropped at a hotel or a restaurant on the right side of the closures and walk the last part, rather than to try to reach the ground itself.

Two 2027 fixtures are not the usual Saturday afternoon. The championship opens with Ireland against England in Dublin on Friday 5 February, an evening kick off that lands squarely in the London rush hour for anyone travelling out that afternoon. And Scotland play Ireland at Murrayfield on the evening of Friday 5 March, which means Edinburgh's closures fall across a working Friday rather than a quiet Saturday. Both are worth an earlier departure than instinct suggests.

England's match against France at Twickenham is on Sunday 14 February, which is easier on the roads and harder on the restaurants, since it is also Valentine's Day. If you want lunch before or dinner after, that is the booking to make first and the one we will plan the car around.

For Twickenham the cars are ours and the chauffeurs are ours. It is our home city, we drive those streets every week, and we know which approach works when Whitton Road shuts. That is the whole point of the arrangement.

For Murrayfield, our own cars and chauffeurs are in London and Manchester, and a trusted global network covers everywhere else. In Edinburgh cars are arranged through operators we know, with one person at Odyssey responsible for the day, or we send a car and chauffeur north with you if you would rather have the same driver throughout. Both work. The second is better when the trip is more than one match. See chauffeur service in Manchester and long distance journeys.