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.....that you have done.

   Flying is all very well, but you can't beat a bit of boat.

   I'm not looking so much for anecdotes, but sure we'll get some, but rather just the leaving and arriving places....which can sum up the nature of the thing.

   I'll offer Scrabster to Stromness.

Portsmouth to Cherbourg was a good one... 5ish hours on a P&O offering that is usually used between England and Bilbao (so it was a lot bigger and nicer than your Dover to Calais type). Sunny crossing on relatively calm seas, and it was my first ever trip abroad. Good times...

Folkstone to Bologne  8)

Portsmouth to Caen in June 1998.  Ferry packed with Scots and english footie fans.  Brilliant journey that was!!

 Don't they have ferrys in Australia?

circular quay to Manly, there you go! surely (don't call me shirley) one of the the most beautiful ferry journeys in the world?

I went on lots of boats if that counts!!!!!!

 Hah....has to be a proper ferry.....not necessarily a long journey.

  I  like the Sandbanks Chain Ferry.

Very therapeutic watching that ferry go back and forth Reg.

Agreed!  :D

Is that where you go to Studland?

What sort of scale  Ferry you taking about though Reg?

Portsmouth to St Marlo (stag weekend).
Dover to Calais x 5 (booze cruise)
Dover to Cherbourg (school)
Folkestone (?) to Ostend (for a laugh 'cause it was cheap).
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Star Ferry, Hong Kong Island to/from Kowloon,
Discovery Bay to/from Hong Kong Island
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Some small car ferry on the Great Ocean Road, near Melbourne, Aus.
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Staten Island Ferry (NYC)
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Alcatraz ferry (just visiting).
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Some boat over to sea to Skye (spead bonnily)
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Erm, the Dartmouth car Ferry.

Gourock to Hunter's Quay.

Stunning scenery, and it usually means we're towards the end of a very long journey.  Welcome to Argyll.  Only a short hop of 2 miles, but I love it.

Ive never been on a Ferry!

Bang Pe to Koh Samet.

I done it many times, quite uneventful really but the scenery is postcard material.

I much prefer taking a speedboat though, sitting right at the front and trying to drink whiskey from the bottle is one of the best games ever...... FACT.

studland is one of the best places in the UK: fact! The chain ferry is cool, then drive up and into the boozer overlooking the cliff. A regular jaunt for me in the summer. Greats walks, pubs and beaches.

Wellington to Picton - From New Zealand's north to south island. Not only was the scenery lovely with schools of dolphins following along but the boat was an old cross channeler - The Pride Of Cherborg. That must have been a hell of a journey down...

Largs to Millport - takes I back years :D

I can't remember where it was and where it was too (it was a school trip was to Ypres) but I remmeber having an amazing game of johnny football on deck.

Seattle to Bainbridge Island, in the Puget Sound, was pretty spectacular.

I have in the past considered setting up a pirate ferry service across the Severn as an alternative to the bridge. I was going to buy the extremely looooong landing jetties from the now defunct Ile d'Oleron ferry and transport them to Blighty to deal with the mud flats. It was a stupid idea, but we would have flown the skull and crossbones.

Plymouth (I think, was only 16) to Santander. Force 9 for 24 hours. I was a bit sick.

Agree with the Manly-Circular Quay comments

Inland waterways in Kerala  was a good day as well.

Poole to Isle of Wight.

I have to say the best ferry journey i've ever been on was Dover-Calais for the World Cup game against Portugal in 2006. Great atmosphere.

southampton-cowes and vice versa is very pleasant during the summer.
took a seas cat from fishguard to roslaire and returned via the same route.on the outward journey it was so ruff the staff were green and throwing up.
never again will i go across the irish sea by boat

I second that it's easily the best i've been on, followed by Alcatraz and opera house to Manly

Manly is very good too but Alcatraz was rather misty for me - which is so unusual in the Bay area of course.

Great ferry journeys that could have been: Lower Weston to Twerton while the bloody bridge works drag on. Would only need one man with a punt.

I've only ever been on a ferry from Dover to Claais, although quite a few times.

The Hydrofoil from Portsmouth to IoW was quite good, although I'd imagine now I'm old enough, anything without a bar to amuse me would be a bit dull.

Who remebers the TV series Triangle ?  That was about ferries,  "starred" Kate O'Mara

Mudeford Quay to Mudeford Sandbank.    8)

I went on that one too, and another one around Milford Sound, good day out. Unsurprisingly it was a raining given that it's a rainforest.

South Coast England to North Coast France many times, Cherbourg, Calais, Roscoff, Caen, Le Havre. And the Star Ferry in Hong Kong.

Always liked boats and ferrys, I've a few weeks on the canals as well, great holidays and lots of pubs along the way.

Done that one for the festival, beautiful day too, got sunburnt on the deck despite the fact it only takes about half an hour.

as a kid before flights were cheep we did an anual trip to poland which involved getting a ferry to germany, it was an overnighter and great fun as a kid, had the old play areas, kiddies disco, caberet and all that jazz.

 Sounds ace....think I went on the PoC.....Brittany Ferries boat.

  Another favourite was Malaga to Tangier...

There's a fine ferry across teh River Wye below Symond's Yat. you get pulled over on a bit of rope...think it may have been there for centuries.

I've been on that one before as well. It wasn't as bad as you had it but they are choppy waters in the Irish Sea.

HAHAHAHAHAHA I have done the very same journey sat at the front of the speed boat drinking a bottle of sang song.

Hythe to Southampton, not so much for the journey but for the very long pier at Hythe complete with it's own train.

algeceiras to cueta is just lush with africa looming and the atlas mountains towering in the distance.

Star Ferry in Hong Kong is cool

But the best ferry is the big fuck off yellow on in fiji that takes you right out to the Manwana (sp) island deep in the pacific, passing  ad ozen or so islands, pure breathtaking.

I'd forgotten that one, it is bloody good, but still picton one at the top for me, also the worst was ayuthya?? BR will know it, not strictly a ferry more a raft across the river 10 ft square with 50 people on it, scary as hell

I believe that big yellow one in Fiji is the Yasawa flyer.  We used that to get up and down the Yasawa Islands.  Absolutely awesome although choppy!

We also used the Tiger IV to get to the Mamanuca Islands - far less visited although not as good as the Yasawa!

Folkestone to bolougne  8)

thats the one, yes the mamanucas are fucking lush and deserted, i pionered there PA one day and spent the afternoon dj ing to the locals and drinking there local hallucigenic drink.

Good old Cava :D

Tis a great game innit, unfortunately I am often the lone player and so therefore have no competition. I am as yet undecided if success means the most whiskey consumed, or the most whiskey spilt over myself.

Regardless I facking love it and tell the "Captain" to go full throttle when a larger wave is ahead (Yep...I become ignorant to the other passengers).. The boat drivers also seem to take pleasure in watching me hurt myself.. when I fall down.

I am about to send you a PM Mex.

I am quite partial to a fairy journey I have to say.

Caledonian MacBrayne have got some great routes up in Scotland although they are bastardishly expensive due to there being no competition whatsoever. Oban to Mull is a  particular favourite.

Puni (Brunei) to Pandaruan (Malaysia) is rather good as well. It's only a couple of hundred yards but saves a journey of about 20 miles by road. If you live in the Temberong region of Brunei, it's the quickest way of getting to Limbang, which is the first town you get to in Malaysia and is therefore, the nearest source for beer. The Sultan of Brunei pays lip service to being a Muslim country so you can't get alchohol there, although there is no problem drinking it there. They don't give you 100 lashes or 'owt, it's just a question of getting hold of the stuff. Limbang is also, for the above reasons, the place to go out on the piss on a Friday night. Although I have some vague recollection of there being some franctic dash back as the last fairy leaves at about 11.30pm or something.

 The islands off the west coast of Scotland really are stunning. Oban is a fine little place.

  Talking of expense, I wanted to take my family from Ilfracombe to  Lundy.

   The powers that be make it expensive to deter people from going...think it would have worked outvabout 160 for a day trip.

Would that be on the Oldenburg Reg ?

Bus ferry across Lake Titicaca Bolivia for the scenery and the sheer lunacy of balancing huge coaches on rickety old wooden rafts.

http://www.meganlyles.com/photos/1118.jpg

^^^^^^
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 Don't know Nev....didn't go.

  The only Oldenburg I know is the sculptor.

   http://www2.skolenettet.no/kunstweb/skulptur/bilder/div_bilder/oldenburg_burger1962.jpg

Surely you must mean Oldenburger ?

This sounds thread sounds like the name of a Sunday afternoon relaxing tv show, probably on BBC2.

  Coming up next....Great Railway Journeys on Preserved Lines.

   FB could make a sculpture of a giant Death Burger, flog it for shed loads and call himself a conceptual artist.

I was on that boat 6 years ago.  Lake Titicaca is one of the most extraordinary places on earth...especially on the Bolivian side.  I'll never forget the sunset over the lake I watched from the rock on the outskirts of Copacabana (just a few miles from where the ferry picture was taken).

Copacabana is a great place.  I stayed there for a week or so and just totally relaxed.

Did you do the road of death into La Paz?

Now I have this going round my head. Thanks.

At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa....they fell in love

I've had similar problems with Diamond's Sweet Caroline for weeks Batch.

Hands.....
Reaching out.......

The only way I'm going to rid myself of this curse is going to see him live.

Harwich to Esbjerg - nightmare North Sea but lovely hairy minge - mmmmm

For some reason after the girly pooh thread I have "Roses" by outkast stuck in my head.

Class tune though:

I know you like to think that your shit dont stink
But lean a little bit closer
See that Roses really smell like Bird Poo-Poo.
Yeah, roses really smell like Bird Poo-Poo.

Yep.  The nuns sitting at the back of the bus with their rosary beads and praying out loud for the entire descent in to La Paz didn't fill me with confidence.  That was the 2nd most terrifying travel experience I had in La Paz.

The 1st most terrifying travel experience I had in La Paz was the take off on the flight to Lima.  The air was so thin that the plane took several minutes to gain the first 1000 feet in height.  Brown trouser time, and no mistake.

I did see a great game of Bolivian First Division football though.

Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire  8)

I was cunted though.  :beers: