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Serious answer. For that sort of thing you are already doing it right. Devon/Cornwall or Brittany. If you are looking at France then bear in mind the Tolls/Petrol. The Dover crossing is by far the cheapest but we ended up spending more on Petrol and tolls on the otherside. The next time we paid more for the Portsmouth crossing but I think it worked out cheaper after deducting the extra tolls.
PB 369,783 wrote:
we paid more for the Portsmouth crossing but I think it worked out cheaper after deducting the extra tolls
... But if you want an ice cream before getting on the ferry, take out a mortgage and have a stomach pump handy.
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+10 The Swansea Cork crossing is always rough - last time me and wifey went it took 14 hours and even the hard lorry drivers were being sick. Oh, and you end up in Cork.
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pkfox wrote:
+10 The Swansea Cork crossing is always rough - last time me and wifey went it took 14 hours and even the hard lorry drivers were being sick.
When I was about 12 or 13 we went on a North sea ferry to Belgium in very rough weather. The toilet floors were awash with vomit, hailstones the size of tennis balls were pelting the outside decks, everyone was sitting down and clinging on. I was the only person in the restaurant, tucking into steak and kidney pie and chips.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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pkfox wrote:
+10 The Swansea Cork crossing is always rough - last time me and wifey went it took 14 hours and even the hard lorry drivers were being sick.
When I was about 12 or 13 we went on a North sea ferry to Belgium in very rough weather. The toilet floors were awash with vomit, hailstones the size of tennis balls were pelting the outside decks, everyone was sitting down and clinging on. I was the only person in the restaurant, tucking into steak and kidney pie and chips.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
ChrisElston wrote:
I was the only person in the restaurant, tucking into steak and kidney pie and chips.
That's cos the restaurant is about as mid-ships as you can get, which minimizes the effects of a choppy sea on the ship, and being the only one there, you were out of the way of the smell of vomit everywhere else (often the smell alone is enough to make you add to it). Over the years I've done the Fishguard to Rosslaire trip and the Dover to Belgium trip often, several times with wife and kids, and I know of what I speak :)
