Get yourself a Tom Tom satnav and tell it where you want to go and tell it to avoid toll roads.
Easy

They don't amount to much and its a breeze, I loved that road from Bordeaux I did St Malo to Zaragoza in one day and I loved it, certainly my favourite of all the 3 routes, Ive done the Tunnel, and I have done it from Santander, but in future I will always do the St Malo route.

I would not want to be on a ferry this week / last week though !

On the ferry to Bilbao. Got a text message to say there was a window inthe weather and sailing was brought forward to Saturday morning. So mad dash for Portsmouth. Very rough. Thanks guys for yr
help.

Good luck

My god what happened - where'd she go?

Phew!

Hopefully she has docked by now, i feel bad for the dogs on board when it is rough, some of the owners can be a bit ott though.

An hour to go. Bad night rockin and Rollin. Horrible.

Yes, Ive witnessed that myself

Luckily we've never had a really bad trip on that ferry, but I can imagine it can be horrible from what others have told me

Our worst ferry trip was on that route on the Pride of Bilbao Some years ago. SWMBO who does not have good sea legs spent most of the trip in bed with lots of Quells and water no food. I managed a movie and dinner but that's how it is different for different people. I don't think I would have persuaded her to go under any circumstances. Of all the boats currently doing the Spanish route we think the Cap is best in bad weather and that seems to be the general opinion of BF Enthusiasts and they posted that she was changing her sailing to take advantage of the weather window!

Before I went the first time I watched some Youtube videos, but it was nothing like that for me.

There is bad weather, but at the moment its 5+mtr waves on the coast line, I read that a man had to be airlifted off an BF Ferry a matter of days ago with spinal injuries and maybe that is why they have missed a few routes this week, or maybe they were lightly booked ?

When I pulled into St Malo just before Xmas I saw the Normandie Express Catamaran sitting there, Id like to get on that one day / night, maybe if I go back Easter in the car Ill give it a go.

Theres one of those on the Dublin route (if its the same sort you mean), and they take it off when theres even a hint of heavy seas. Apparently it rocks from side to side as opposed to front to back, and causes all kinds of grief for passengers

The first one of these I went on was between Wellington and Picton.
It operated the Cook Strait in there summer and in the English Channel in our summer.

A hell of a long trip between areas

When I got married we had our honeymoon in Paris through the Paris Travel Service. It was by coach and hovercraft. This was back in the 70's, and it's an experience I will never forget, if not just for the noise levels.

Be warned if the crew is Spanish

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