On the way to France on Friday....whoops

[doris]

Have just looked at the forecasts for Frday...the day we are off from Portsmouth to Caen, by Brittany Ferries I would add. Somewhere between 55 and 60 knot gusts. Still loads of time for things to change......hopefully with fingers crossed.
Mind you I'm sure most of you chaps would consider that just a touch frisky!

 

[mikewilkes]

Have just looked at the forecasts for Frday...the day we are off from Portsmouth to Caen, by Brittany Ferries I would add. Somewhere between 55 and 60 knot gusts. Still loads of time for things to change......hopefully with fingers crossed.
Mind you I'm sure most of you chaps would consider that just a touch frisky!

Still time to change to Eurotunnel!!!

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[Twister_Ken]

Pass the sick bag, Alice
John Junor

 

[Sans Bateau]

Have just looked at the forecasts for Frday...the day we are off from Portsmouth to Caen, by Brittany Ferries I would add. Somewhere between 55 and 60 knot gusts. Still loads of time for things to change......hopefully with fingers crossed.
Mind you I'm sure most of you chaps would consider that just a touch frisky!

Errr, we're crossing from Portsmouth to St Malo Friday eve.

 

[The swede]

The weather forecast for France is perfect for Friday, what are you on about ?

 

[Sandy]

Ahh the good old Normandie, I do miss that boat. Many, many trips from Plymouth on that old lady.

 

[Giblets]

Errr, we're crossing from Portsmouth to St Malo Friday eve.

That's a looooooonnnnnnnnnngggggggggg way in a blow!!!!

 

[westernman]

That's a looooooonnnnnnnnnngggggggggg way in a blow!!!!

Certainly is when it is F7 gusting F12 . (Windfinder forecast for St Malo).

And in the wrong direction

 

[mikemacdonald]

If you are on the Pont Avant, get an early( excellent) dinner in the a la carte restaurant, stugeron or 2 before you board, and an early night, you won't feel a thing !!!!

 

[[2574]]

I've done a F11 crossing....

....Caen to Portsmouth (the night that the ferries were stuck outside Dover) and it wasn't pretty nor much fun. We were okay until we got out of the lee of the cherbourg peninsula then it all went seriously tits up. I hadn't expected a ferry to heel quite so dramatically, the steel decks became seriously difficult to stand up on. We stayed out on the aft deck all night as inside the boat was swimming in a mixture of spirits (the optics all fell off the shelf on to the bar floor and smashed) and sick. I'd stand aside if I was faced with that again!

 

[Sans Bateau]

If you are on the Pont Avant, get an early( excellent) dinner in the a la carte restaurant, stugeron or 2 before you board, and an early night, you won't feel a thing !!!!

We expect to be on the Pont Avant or the Mont St Michel. This is a regular pre Christmas run that we have done for around 8 years now. The two ferries above are big and stable. Anyway we will be tucked up in the cabin, horizontal.

I'm watching Simons forecast amongst others, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the storm to come through Thursday night, so Friday evening may be a little less rough, at least the storm forecast shifted from Friday to Thursday in the last 24 hours.

 

[Sandy]

If you are on the Pont Avant, get an early( excellent) dinner in the a la carte restaurant, stugeron or 2 before you board, and an early night, you won't feel a thing !!!!

I do miss the la carte restaurant on their new ships; not impressed with the dining facilities on Armorique. A nice meal and a bottle of wine started the trip to France nicely.

 

[youen]

I agree the Armorique is more like a fast food .

 

[Bebo]

Errr, we're crossing from Portsmouth to St Malo Friday eve.

I know a parent at school who is heading off on a med cruise on friday from Southampton but are of the opinion that cruise ships are so big they are not affected by rough weather......

I just smiled and said enjoy your holiday

 

[Sans Bateau]

I know a parent at school who is heading off on a med cruise on friday from Southampton but are of the opinion that cruise ships are so big they are not affected by rough weather......

I just smiled and said enjoy your holiday

Do you mean those big flat bottomed ships that like to anchor in shallow water, the same ones that are the size of a sky scrapper?

 

[Bebo]

Do you mean those big flat bottomed ships that like to anchor in shallow water, the same ones that are the size of a sky scrapper?

The very same......

 

[ithet]

Pont Aven scheduled for St Malo on Friday, maybe you could go all the down to the swimming pool and not notice anything! Then hit the resturant past the CIs.

To Caen on the Normandie - get on those horses and pretend you're in a rodeo!

Favorite trip is St Malo via the Bretagne (mostly in the resturant!).

 

[ithet]

Spains off

See the Spanish sailings have been cancelled. Not something BF likes to do.

http://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/routes/sailing-updates

 

[At_Ease]

Pont Aven

I went to St Malo on the Pont Aven last Friday night (when it was nice and calm .

I thought the food was OK and found the a la carte restaurant not disimilar to the Bretagne. The self service is a bit cafeteria style, but steak frites was OK.

What is not OK is the breakfast, in particular the so-called 'Full English'. Foul.

Best to breakfast ashore. Be warned though, St Malo does not open for business until 1000 local time on Saturdays apart from the odd tabac. You are deposited ashore around 0830.

 

[flipper]

Doing the Portsmouth to Caen crossing next Thursday 22nd. I was going to take the dog but she will have to stay in the car. If the weather looks anything like this week I think I'll have to put her in kennels over Christmas. Shame. Anyone else taken their dog on that crossing?