True, but when a boat docks, and when you're on the road, seem to vary dramatically.
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True, but when a boat docks, and when you're on the road, seem to vary dramatically.
Allow 30 minutes? Unless you are parked behind a gaggle of 20 bikermates, who faff about at every opportunity or engage each other in banter, instead of looking for their passports which they’ll need within a few yards of wobbling off the ferry. If it’s then 45 minutes, it’s not going to change your life, I guess. If it’s 20 rejoice!
It’s certainly not going to be hours, unless they can’t get the doors open or the customs blokes have gone for a siesta or to a bull fight.
It’s certainly not going to be hours, unless they can’t get the doors open or the customs blokes have gone for a siesta or to a bull fight.
Food when boarding Brittany Ferry to Santander
Anyone travelled recently on Galicia going to Santander late evening? Wondered if the restaurants are open late or if it’s best to eat on route to ferry terminal.
Also do they start loading early? Be nice to get on boat and get sorted.
Cheers
Anyone travelled recently on Galicia going to Santander late evening? Wondered if the restaurants are open late or if it’s best to eat on route to ferry terminal.
Also do they start loading early? Be nice to get on boat and get sorted.
Cheers
Your question about when you are possibly going to be loaded, was answered just recently:
https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/578240-Ferry-Newbie-question
Where the question was:
You’ll maybe not remember but you contributed to the thread quite expertly, including a reference to the restaurant:
As to food, assuming you don’t dump your bags and rush to the restaurant. Take a sandwich. Break into its triangular box in the event of an emergency. Take a bottle of pop to suit. Biscuits, biscuits are good. I recommend Garibaldi, better known as squashed flies. They pack down small, leaving you plenty of room in your humongous panniers for other stuff.
Enjoy your holiday.
https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/578240-Ferry-Newbie-question
Where the question was:
You’ll maybe not remember but you contributed to the thread quite expertly, including a reference to the restaurant:
As to food, assuming you don’t dump your bags and rush to the restaurant. Take a sandwich. Break into its triangular box in the event of an emergency. Take a bottle of pop to suit. Biscuits, biscuits are good. I recommend Garibaldi, better known as squashed flies. They pack down small, leaving you plenty of room in your humongous panniers for other stuff.
Enjoy your holiday.
Garibaldi = squashed flies. Takes me back to my days at boarding school, happy days
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I was looking at alternative words for moderator and the term “diplomat” popped up. Nah, can’t be right.
Garibaldi = squashed flies. Takes me back to my days at boarding school, happy days
My mother, now in her late 80’s, always refers to them as squashed flies. I thought it was only us as a family but good to know that there are others, too.
See closing line of post #2.
In my experience is is about 30 mins or so, never timed it so perhaps it varies, but not by enough for me to have noticed or call dramatically, worst one I had was when between go down to the hold and getting out of the Ferry doors it had started pissing down, and all those bikermates with unsuitable non waterproof textiles immediately stopped in the middle of the fucking exit road to change into more appropriate clobber and caused chaos.
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If Galicia is the new boat from Portsmouth I do believe that a meal is now included
Panic over
Panic over
But what if you are wrong in your belief?
Panic then ensues. Hunger gnaws at the soul and a holiday is maybe ruined, even before it’s started.
Rasher seems to agree with me, with excellent additional reference to numpty bikermates, all faffing around.
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It is a worry !
My ticket Santander to Portsmouth on Galicia clearly states evening meal included but should that all go wrong and it turns out that Brittany ferries are lying ripoff merchants I know there are several other food outlets on board that will relieve me of many Euros in exchange for sustenance and that the duty free shop sells biscuits although they may not be the fly paper variety so adored by all biker mates
Depends on the boat though .
Both times I’ve got the Pont Aven to Santander , we’ve waited probably an hour each time to get off and it’s like a sauna down there with about 200 bikes and hundreds of bikers.
But the Cap Finistère was so much better . Think it only holds 60 bikes and we were off in about 15 minutes .
Not paid attention but is the Galicia on the Santander run now ? Probably takes even more bikes than the Pont Aven !!
Did some of them start their engines after five minutes of waiting, blipping the throttle on a regular basis to confirm that their Akra was still intact, having been left out of sight for a few hours?
Thanks for confirming. This is a great sight.
I am looking at another trip to the Pico's in September and have had a week of faffing around with Brittany Ferries, either unable to get through or dates no good, now thinking of riding down Calais - Honfleur - Poitiers/Bordeaux - Picos.
Real bikers eat real squashed flies, moths and raw fish caught using a bent pin and fishing line dragged behind the ferry 
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