A Funny Thing Happened On The Wat To Portsmouth

[oakridge]

We travel regularly on the St Malo/Portsmouth ferry, but our trip home on Friday was a little different. We were enjoying lunch in the superb restaurant when there was a large bang from without and eventually the engines stopped giving us plenty of time to admire Alderney on the Port bow. The 'I shall only say this once' lady announcer, er, announced that an escape chute had fallen off and the Captain was having a boat launched to retrieve it. This took about an hour and eventually we set off again, but soon afterwards there was another announcement to say that we would be drawing close to Cherbourg in order to allow a helicopter to collect a injured man, not too injured I hope.. Eventually we arrived home at 00:45am after getting up at 05:00am, UK time.

This was our eighth successive dead calm crossing; it cannot last

Malcolm

[Red Yaris 54]

Exciting stuff!

Remember many years ago travelling from Weymouth to Jersey by ferry and it was the roughest crossing that the ferry company had experienced for many years

There were several cars damaged on the car deck and most of the crockery in the galley got smashed!

Most on board (Passengers and Crew) were seasick.......It was an horrendous crossing!

Thankfully the return journey was as smooth as a millpond

[Jan&tone]

Exciting stuff!

Remember many years ago travelling from Weymouth to Jersey by ferry and it was the roughest crossing that the ferry company had experienced for many years

There were several cars damaged on the car deck and most of the crockery in the galley got smashed!

Most on board (Passengers and Crew) were seasick.......It was an horrendous crossing!

Thankfully the return journey was as smooth as a millpond

which is exactly why we fly and hire a car when we get there

[oakridge]

The trouble with flying, apart from all the faffing about at airports is luggage and there is the cabin and the excellent food. In the past we were carrying computers and/or accounts and now there is gardening stuff and we usually return with liquefied grapes surrounded by glass and held in with a cork amongst other things.

Malcolm

[Phoenix999]

I can't get a ferry to the USA or Caribbean so I think I shall fly instead

[Raistlin]

I can't get a ferry to the USA or Caribbean so I think I shall fly instead

Where is your spirit of adventure :-)

[Phoenix999]

I can't get a ferry to the USA or Caribbean so I think I shall fly instead

Where is your spirit of adventure :-)

It is 37,000 feet up with someone else doing the driving

[oakridge]

We have made 3 return trips in the last 5 years, the longest being 75 minutes to Poitiers. Before that I crossed the Channel from Lydd to Le Touquet in 1961 in a Bristol Freighter, complete with the Bedford Dormobile. That is enough for me. I hate the whole pantomime around flying, it just is not worth the candle. I set the alarms off at Stanstead but they could not decide what the problem was and let me pass which was not all that comforting. During our time in France I realised that it would have been the batteries in my talking clock, but I did not bother telling them.

Malcolm