"Martin" wrote in message
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> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:15:33 +0530, "William Black"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Martin" wrote in message
>>news:oeqcn3tilns13d5ibmmm1comli5g0vcnn2@4ax.com...
>>> 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.
>
> Have you seen the pilot going onboard in that sort of weather?
>
>>It was shipping green water over the bows as I ate my breakfast in what
>>seemed to me a perfectly stable dining room.
>
> In the late 1960s I sailed across the North Sea from Es. to Norway in a
> 26'
> boat and got caught in an enormous storm half way across. It's very
> different
> down there from the view you get from a ferry :-)
I have no desire to see the North Sea for an altitude of less than at least
thirty feet unless I am standing on a beach.
--
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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