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[Kevin Wood]

Mad, isn't it?

I don't know how many vehicles one of those ferries holds but how can driving the whole lot down the Uk motorway network work out cheaper than running the ferry for a few more hours (assuming the overheads of loading, unloading, crewing, etc. are of the same order of magnitude)?

Kevin

[Kevin Wood]

It's the same when you get to Europe too, though. I had a very nice, comfy journey down to Italy with my parents a good few years ago where we put the car on the Motorail at Boulogne, slept on the train and woke up in Milan.

I looked into doing that this year. 1000 quid! Who do they expect to pay that sort of money? A day and a half sitting on cruise control on deserted French motorways,  a few motorway tolls, couple of tanks of petrol, a cheap hotel and nice dinner in a French restaurant. Came no where near the cost of the train!

Kevin

[Phil]

Ramsgate to Oostende is £58 return or £112 depending how many days you spend away, but it is a commercial ferry, so theres bugger all to do.

[Phil]

Day trip to Oostende whereby we spent the whole day (as far as I can remember) sitting in a bar getting mullered on Kriek and Duvel.

Ooistende is a great place to go, i sail over there 2 or 3 time a year for a long weekend. Plenty of great bars and really friendly place.

The RORC do one of the East Anglian offshore race from Harwich to Oostende and back, which is quite a fun race, 12-15hrs there, meal in the North Sea Yacht club get pissed, wake up and sail 12-15hrs back  

[Markie]

Day trip to Oostende whereby we spent the whole day (as far as I can remember) sitting in a bar getting mullered on Kriek and Duvel.

Ooistende is a great place to go, i sail over there 2 or 3 time a year for a long weekend. Plenty of great bars and really friendly place.

The RORC do one of the East Anglian offshore race from Harwich to Oostende and back, which is quite a fun race, 12-15hrs there, meal in the North Sea Yacht club get pissed, wake up and sail 12-15hrs back  

Now i am in the mood....Duval and chips with mayonnaise......thats real beer and real mayo along Oostende