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Having fun watching the continuing seafaring adventures of @goatsarah and her crew thanks to the boating equivalent of FlightRadar. Yesterday they left Cherbourg at lunchtime and were moored up in St Peter Port Guernsey in time for tea. Today they’re headed south west towards the French coast (somewhere like Roscoff I guess). It’s like following Greta all over again marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/…
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
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@PamCrossland In 1966 my parents had a rare summer holiday and we took the Calpernia from Weymouth via Guernsey to Jersey so I think I had the same passing acquaintance with St Peter Port as you. We berthed for about half an hour in the late afternoon whilst cargo and passengers were exchanged.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
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Using two fingers as dividers to extrapolate where you’d got in three hours I was thinking it was probably too far but I couldn’t see much evidence of mariners in other places. Brest tomorrow?
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
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That sounds like one of those mind puzzles involving snakes and rabbits or lettuces. Could it be worth getting a ferry from Cherbourg to fetch the car?
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Zoë O'Connell
Zoë O'Connell
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It’s frustrating that France has cracked down on short haul flights but not inter-regional train pricing being OTT.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
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@zoe @ajlanes Ah.. I was thinking more along the lines that you take buses to Cherbourg and send one over to collect the car whilst the other two get an Air BnB to await their return. See? In my head it’s much more like ferrying snakes and rabbits and lettuces across the river 😂
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
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@zoe @ajlanes When I go on car ferries I have them peering inside the car to see if, as a lone traveller, I’ve secreted anyone extra for free.
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Cyberspice
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@zoe @ajlanes When Mum and Dad had the boat in La Rochelle they regularly cross the channel with the car (a Jaguar XK) and after a few trips they got pulled aside the car the thoroughly searched by UK customs.
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Zoë O'Connell
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@ajlanes I don't even know how to begin to research the rules for someone driving a British car in France using a Portuguese driving licence.

Fortunately with these corner cases, they usually baffle the plod enough they give up worrying about it too.

@Alexandra Lanes
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