Friday, June 22, 2007
Thursday 26th April
We boarded a Ferry at Patras to take us to Bari in Italy. This ferry line offer the facility to camp on board i.e. we could sleep in our caravan and hook up to their electricity. There are toilets and showers provided on the car deck. The idea of camping on board sounds all very good but as we were right at the back near the engines it was quite noisy and everything on the ship rattled as well as everything in the caravan. Not to mention the noise of loading more lorries from Corfu or was it Igoumenitsa? Still it was cheaper than booking a cabin!
Friday 27th April
We arrived in Italy to be greeted by ……rain!!
Saturday 28th April
We set sail for Dubrovnik. The ramp leading onto the platform to go onto the ferry was a sharp apex. The car in front couldn’t get over without scraping the bottom, in the end all the passengers and their luggage had to get out in order to get the car over. How on earth were we going to get over without scraping the caravan? Answer, only just and only with the help of the car’s air suspension. If we did not have the ability to raise and lower the suspension we would not have got over, as it was the supports under the caravan were scraping the floor. The captain admitted it was a big problem and had caused lots of issues; he seemed particularly embarrassed by it all.
