Travelling - a bit more adventurous than expected! With guest appearance by the octopus!

[curiouswombat]

We are on our hols! We left home about 7.45 to go down to The Sea Terminal for the boat. We were on the new ferry - Manxman for the first time - it was a very comfortable crossing.

My favourite moment of the crossing came about an hour into the 3.5hr sailing, and was The Best Public Service Announcement Ever. " Will the owner of the red

Comments

[ysilme]

Oh my, that sounds quite adventurious! Glad to hear you got a good and comfortable solution to the itinerary derailment (pun intended ^^). And I fully agree about that public announcement - how cute is that?
How long is the crossing from Man to England, by the way?

[curiouswombat]

We are both recovering from summer colds, and were just so relieved to finally get into the hotel in York and flop out for a while!

The boat trip is about 4 hours allowing for getting on and off. It used to be slightly shorter but the route now has to avoid windfarms on the English coast.

[enigmaticblues]

Enjoy your holiday!

[curiouswombat]

Thank you!

[pondhopper]

You'd have been about an hour away from York at Skipton so it was a very wise choice getting that taxi. Expensive but as you say, absolutely worth it. I hear it's raining a good bit now in the UK and hope it clears for your stay in York.
Enjoy your suite! That's lovely.

[curiouswombat]

It was just such a relief to arrive and flop out for a while! I was very glad that the very heavy rain only began after we arrived in the hotel - another reason to be grateful for the taxi. We looked out the window and it was literally bouncing off the pavement it was so heavy.

It has been a wet summer so far - no worries about drought this year, I think.

We have a lovely view of the Minster out the window.

[seaivy]

love that octopus!!!!!
thanks for taking us with you on your vacation!

[curiouswombat]

It's a pleasure - and the octopus was very cute :)

[kathyh]

Enjoy your holiday. Train delays are such a nuisance but I think you definitely made the right choice to take a taxi. Can you claim some of the train ticket money back with the delay/repay scheme? We did this when we were delayed coming back from a few days away a couple of weeks ago and got half the cost of our train tickets back.

Glad the octopus got its owner back :)

[curiouswombat]

Oh - thank you - I hadn't thought about that. I might wait until I am home as our tickets were Steam Packet ones that cover Douglas to York, so I will pop in and ask them.

It was good to see the octopus reunited with its small person :)