Cancelled ferry

Brittany ferries are on strike, so they have cancelled our sailing tomorrow and their website states that the alternative crossing is Calais which is 2000 miles away - is it ? Perhaps you can check please.  I got through to them eventually about an hour ago and told them our plight, I.e. we have no maps of France with us, so how the hell we are supposed to get there and how long it will take etc etc god only knows.

They said on the phone that a sailing to Plymouth is scheduled for Wednesday and we are now booked on that, it leaves Santander at 2130 and gets in at 1930 our time.  But there is no guarantee of the sailing.

One important factor is that as from 1600 tomorrow when we supposed to get the ferry to Portsmouth we will be saving all our receipts to claim on our travel insurance through Lloyds bank because we will have extra expenses to stay for another 2 nights plus fuel from plymouth and I just want it logged that this has happened, as from previous experience Axa insurance is a nightmare to deal with.

I can only hope that the sailing goes ahead on Wednesday otherwise I have no idea when we will be home.  I even text my friend Val who works for Carnival to see if there are other sailings I.e. from Bilbao but nothing.   Will be updating the blog.  I will be able to access the Internet until tomorrow morning when we have to check out of these lovely apartments.  We will then be looking to stay somewhere nearer to Santander as we are approx 120 km from there at the moment (but as the roads are so good here compared to the uk it would only take an hour to get there).

I have informed our cat sitter Jerradine about the cancellation but not the latest news and Mick I spoke to earlier, he thought the ferry was cancelled because of a hurricane !!


Never trust the French.  Bastards !!!


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