A friend of mine told me this about their recent trip to France:
'Brittany Ferries was set up by farmers postwar when they wanted to ship fruit and vegetables over to England and it was too far to go to Calais. The farmers formed a farmers' co-operative - very enterprising.
'Now you can take the new ferries to France, the 'Economie' which is a huge saving, £80 rather than £120. 'Now to some people £80 sounds a lot of money, especially if you remember years ago a crossing was about £40 and a passenger went for much less, especially on a day return trip.
However, 'when you consider that you are getting a six hour journey over the sea (compare that to travel on a train across Britain) for both car and a driver, the price seems good value.'
What's the name of the ship? My friend forgot. 'Pride of Lobster Bay or some such nonsense.'
My friend took both ferries, the dearer one to Europe, the cheaper one returning to the UK. The choice was determined by the timing. The Economie ferry was taken by chance. The switch to an earlier ship took place after a mix-up with the date, thinking the return was a day earlier. Fortunately my friend did not get it wrong and arriving too late), and the port (coming back from a different port).
The outward to Europe trip was Portsmouth Caen on the dearer ferry.
Exiting from the Le-Havre-Portsmouth ferry took place after a one hour delay.
Angela Lansbury BA Hons, author, travel writer, speaker.
'Brittany Ferries was set up by farmers postwar when they wanted to ship fruit and vegetables over to England and it was too far to go to Calais. The farmers formed a farmers' co-operative - very enterprising.
'Now you can take the new ferries to France, the 'Economie' which is a huge saving, £80 rather than £120. 'Now to some people £80 sounds a lot of money, especially if you remember years ago a crossing was about £40 and a passenger went for much less, especially on a day return trip.
However, 'when you consider that you are getting a six hour journey over the sea (compare that to travel on a train across Britain) for both car and a driver, the price seems good value.'
What's the name of the ship? My friend forgot. 'Pride of Lobster Bay or some such nonsense.'
My friend took both ferries, the dearer one to Europe, the cheaper one returning to the UK. The choice was determined by the timing. The Economie ferry was taken by chance. The switch to an earlier ship took place after a mix-up with the date, thinking the return was a day earlier. Fortunately my friend did not get it wrong and arriving too late), and the port (coming back from a different port).
The outward to Europe trip was Portsmouth Caen on the dearer ferry.
Exiting from the Le-Havre-Portsmouth ferry took place after a one hour delay.
Angela Lansbury BA Hons, author, travel writer, speaker.
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