These overnight crossing, bloody Brittany ferries always shove me down in the bottom of the ship down a lift, first on and last off it really ■■■■■■ me off.
I’ve just sat down with a pint to watch the football and now I’m surrounded by bloody school children.
Having to share a cabin and left my ear plugs in the lorry.
Still better than Freightliner Leeds though JD 
ffs you only been going over the water for 10 minutes and your moaning its obvious dont turn up 1st
mb14:
ffs you only been going over the water for 10 minutes and your moaning its obvious dont turn up 1st
+1
What they said
It is good practice for you, reversing backwards and forwards in the pit 
Character Building
What’s up JD did he not want to spoon you 
Posted via free wifi from my comfy bed in my lovely cabin (not shared) somewhere between Killingholme and Hoek
Yep your right I’ve been at it 10 mins and Ive decided I hate overnight ferries
I used the train a few weeks ago… Loved that, I wish I could use it everytime.
newmercman:
Still better than Freightliner Leeds though JD
Ain’t that a fact.
Overnight ferries are ok, it’s sharing a cabin with dirty stinking ■■■■■■ up snoring lorry drivers that’s the problem!!
And yes Alex i agree, the train is far better!!
switchlogic:
mb14:
ffs you only been going over the water for 10 minutes and your moaning its obvious dont turn up 1st+1
What difference does it make if he’s done 1 overnight crossing or 301, he’s decided he doesn’t like them and that’s his right People go to an RDC once and decide they hate it, should they have to go more times just to be sure?
JD if your anything like me it’s just the Portsmouth overnight crossing i hate . and i have done a lot more than 1 crossing . take no notice of that manure stirrer William 
Il be honest on this job I’ve done a dozen overnight crossings, that’s 12 now I’m pretty sure I’m not going to like the next 12 any better 
Besides I did a few trips Liverpool to Dublin last year and didn’t like those crossings either
NORSEA and NORSUN used to be fantastic overnight crossings. Top notch grub, entertainment, a cabin with a window, loo and shower, bliss.
I quite liked TransEuropa before they started taking pax as well.
Derf:
NORSEA and NORSUN used to be fantastic overnight crossings. Top notch grub, entertainment, a cabin with a window, loo and shower, bliss.I quite liked TransEuropa before they started taking pax as well.
Only went Ramsgate-Oostende twice on TransEuropa and found it a very ramshackle outfit. It would have been just about okay had the rude Croatian crew not insisted on waking us up and trying to move us out of our cabin 3 hours in to a 5 hour crossing so they could clean it at their convenience. They got told where to go, but its still annoying to have happen. I did like the fact that in Ramsgate once getting off the ferry you could use the large over-flow truck park for free to continue your split ferry rest if you had a ferry ticket.
Cant beat the old North Sea Ferries though. I spent several dozen trips with my dad in the 90s shipping out of Hull. My favourites were actually the freighters, Norbay and Norbank.
JD ,you have a point about the kids that run wild on the ferries,just think how many coaches you can get on a large modern ferry,they are like little elephants and will run around like it is a sports day,in the cabins below you can hear them scream and shout all night or all day.For some reason they go mental on the ship,like they know their parents are not there to tell them off.
Just get to the bar, get a McD’s straw and ■■■■ half a dozen Stellas down your gregory before you see the lights of port fade, then get your head down for the rest of the crossing, it’ll work everytime, noisy kids, crap weather, nothing can penetrate a Stella through a straw induced snooze
I would suggest Jadrolinja during tourist season, an 11- hour crossing from split to ancona with a seat, yes, a single seat with about a hundred others to join in the fun. food that would destroy the intestines of a stray dog from sierra leone as well.
or for the extreme, go for the 72-hour crossing from bari to cesme. novorossiisk to samsun, illichevsk to istanbul, varna to batumi. the list is pretty long for ferrys with actual problems.
milodon:
novorossiisk to samsun, illichevsk to istanbul, varna to batumi. the list is pretty long for ferrys with actual problems.
Have you been on any of those before Milodon? I knew those crossings existed but have no idea in what format, ie largely passenger or freight or mixed or trailers only etc? Didn’t Willi Betz run / charter a ferry running from Varna to Batumi or Poti? Maybe they still do?
I would certainly be interested to learn more about those crossings that are pretty much unknown in western Europe.
novorossiisk to samsun was the route a coworker used regularly to get from estonia to istanbul up until bg and ro joined the eu. haven’t been on in since I only got my c+e a little while before that happened, haven’t been on varna-batumi either, my old boss used it a couple of years ago, said it was ok, as it didn’t sink. the illichevsk to istanbul crossing would be a pretty useful one, but it usually runs on a “it gets there when it gets there and leaves when it does” schedule, according to a turk I know, who has been doing the baltics and russia for the last 20 years. theyre all mostly freight/trailers.