"Martin" wrote in message
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> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:29:31 +0530, "William Black"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Martin" wrote in message
>>news:addan39083ccdhb8pshp3m5afvutf48cca@4ax.com...
>>> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:11:17 +0530, "William Black"
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Martin" wrote in message
>>>>news:5to9n318b99bgen0329657en2u02j9a6t4@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:49:47 +0000, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
>>>>> _the_
>>>>
>>>> The P&O Hull R'dam staff have a habit of clearing away all the trays of
>>>>bacon
>>>>> eggs sausages etc. when the boat docks, although it is at least 30
>>>>> minutes
>>>>> before anybody can disembark, and whilst there are still queues for
>>>>> breakfast.
>>>>> In the good old days you could park your car at the back of the rows
>>>>> on
>>>>> the car
>>>>> deck and have a leisurely breakfast whilst others queued at passport
>>>>> and
>>>>> illegal
>>>>> immigrant controls.
>>>>
>>>>My experience is that they stop serving when they announce that drivers
>>>>should report to their cars.
>>>>
>>>>As foot passengers can't get off for at least another forty minutes or
>>>>so
>>>>it
>>>>can be a touch disconcerting.
>>>>
>>>>Especially if the ship docks an hour or so early and they send the call
>>>>at
>>>>about 7:00am...
>>>>
>>>>On the other hand I've never managed to miss breakfast on that
>>>>particular
>>>>journey.
>>>
>>> We have given up having breakfast on the ferry because on every trip
>>> this
>>> year
>>> they stopped serving as soon as the boat docked. Maybe we use the ferry
>>> a
>>> lot
>>> more than you?
>>
>>Almost certainly. I only use it a couple of times a year.
>>
>>As I sleep badly the first couple of nights in a new bed I tend to be up
>>and
>>dressed very early, and always waiting for the nice hot cup of tea to be
>>delivered to the cabin door...
>
> ... noisy bugger!
>
> Tonight should be good on the ferry. Earlier this afternoon the shipping
> forecast was Force 8-9 for Humber Thames.
>
I was on the UK crewed one in a force 8 a couple of years ago.
My whisky was trembling in the glass a bit but the stabilisers seem to work
very well.
I watched a small tanker coming into Europort alongside the next morning.
It was shipping green water over the bows as I ate my breakfast in what
seemed to me a perfectly stable dining room.
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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