Ferry land - which ferries have you taken and which do you wish to take before Charon rows you across the Styx.

[planetgeli]

Harwich to Hook of Holland with 100 St Mirren fans fighting each other in lieu of finding anyone else to fight.

 

[ID47]

Speaking of Italian ferries once went on a camping trip with my then girlfriend to the Island of Capraia, a semi open prison island, on the ferry from Livorno. This ferry at the back had a barred off room with convicts inside and escorting Carabinieri and Penetentiary Police. Prisoners were chatting through the bars and all was nice and calm and we first stopped at Gorgona Island to unload some into a boat to be taken ashore to the prison island. Next stop was Capraia and I'm not sure if the ferry then went on to Pianosa another prison Island.

Gorgona prison farm does big business these days with organic food and wine. Beautiful island.

 

[ID47]

Believe there used to be a ferry across to Wales before they built the M4 bridges. Stopped in the 60s?

Also talk of reviving a ferry from Swansea to Ilfracombe but can’t see their being the demand really

Various smaller, local ferries across the estuaries here, so far I’ve taken none of them as haven’t needed to.

Went on that when I was a little kid with my Mum who was from South Wales family wise.

 

[ID47]

Sandbanks to Studland chain ferry

 

[iona]

Harwich to Hook of Holland with 100 St Mirren fans fighting each other in lieu of finding anyone else to fight.

I did Aberdeen to Kirkwall during some big football match recently, with the bar half full of English supporters and half full of Scots supporting the team that wasn't England. Was surprisingly good natured!

 

[mx wcfc]

I spend about an hour a week sat on a bus that's either waiting for ferry passengers or driving in a loop back in the wrong direction to drop off ferry passengers before it continues on to my destination. Which is doubly annoying because I use that bus service myself when I get the Aberdeen boat, so really can't complain about it.

When we went to Papa Westray our greatest worry was whether we'd make the bus link, cos we were late leaving Kirkwall cos the ramp wasn't working.

Nobody else at Kirkwall, including the bin lorry seemed the slightest bit bothered.

(I also remember buying the tickets, It was sort of "two returns to Papa Westray, please" "That's £11" "no" I said, "Two returns to Papa Westray, please" to which he replied "Yeah, £11". Southampton to the IoW, a shorter distance and just one ferry, is £30 each way.)

 

[iona]

When we went to Papa Westray our greatest worry was whether we'd make the bus link, cos we were late leaving Kirkwall cos the ramp wasn't working.

Nobody else at Kirkwall, including the bin lorry seemed the slightest bit bothered.

(I also remember buying the tickets, It was sort of "two returns to Papa Westray, please" "That's £11" "no" I said, "Two returns to Papa Westray, please" to which he replied "Yeah, £11". Southampton to the IoW, a shorter distance and just one ferry, is £30 each way.)

Nah they'll keep the bus waiting if a ferry or the last plane into Kirkwall is running a bit late. If the big Aberdeen/Lerwick boat is running really late, they'll run an extra service whenever it eventually arrives. They'll sometimes also (unofficially) keep the ferry waiting for a short amount of time if a passenger they know is running very slightly late.

 

[Sue]

Some kind of boat trip to Denmark when I was a kid, did do a family holiday in Orkney which presumably must've involved a ferry, and similarly think we must've gone on one when we did a school trip to France, think the only ferry I've consciously chosen to go on as an adult was to Belfast once. Presumably that must've set off from Liverpool, in my head I kind of think of it as departing from Hull but that's probably not right.

Not Stranraer/Cairnryan to Larne/Belfast?

 

[A380]

Dover Calais
Folkestone Bolougne back in the day
The hovercraft from Folkestone to Calais also back in the day
Ostend Dover
Harwich to hook of Holland ( my new favourite way of getting to the European mainland TBF)
Isle of Wight ferry
Portsmouth St Malo-fast ferry via jersey and the slow one direct overnight.
Mull
Skye before the bridge
Scarbster-Stormesness. Westray. Orkney -Shetland. Shetland Aberdeen
Fast ferry Milford Haven Cork ( I think)
Pembroke Dock to Rosslare
Piraus Ageina
Corfu to Albania
Star Ferry Hong Kong kow loon - costs about 10 pence.
The little foot ferries that cross the Dubai creek
Various motor scooter ferries in southern Taiwan
Italy to Palermo- to Somewhere else in Sicily -Stromboli
That one in Denmark where they put the whole train on ( before the tunnel?)
Ilfracombe to Lundy a fair few times
Ferry cross the Mersey
One across the Hudson somewhere up the valley
Staten Island ferry- it’s free!

Reedham chain ferry
That Chain Ferry near Portsmouth

I love them all.

 

[hitmouse]

Not Stranraer/Cairnryan to Larne/Belfast?

Nearly sure it must've been from Liverpool, not entirely sure though.

 

[JimW]

Done a fair few major lines but one minor one I do recall is me and my brother taking a tiny ferry over the Jinsha after trekking Tiger Leaping Gorge in the days before it got really developed for tourism, raging river and spectacular scenery. Also got complimented on my beard by the ferryman, impressed someone as young as I was then could grow one and lamenting that he couldn't.

 

[rubbershoes]

The ferry from Aqaba in Jordan over to Nuweiba in Egypt seemed the most dangerous.

The only air conditioned room was downstairs so had hundreds of people crammed in. To get out from there, there was a single bulkhead door, a steep staircase and another bulkhead.

I don't normally worry about things like this but that did seem dangerous.

 

[marty21]

When I was a kid, we did Swansea to Cork many times , have also done Fishguard to Rosslare. Apart from that , Harwich to Holland , Ramsgate to Ostend?

 

[ElizabethofYork]

IOne of the videos I watched takes you from the arse-end of Denmark to the arse-end of Iceland going past Northernmost tip of Shetland and calling at the Faroe Isles and looks like an amazing trip.

That sounds blooming brilliant! I'm off to investigate that.

 

[ouirdeaux]

I went from the mainland to Ithaki, and from Greece to Italy, and that must have been on ferries, but I can't remember much about them. This bothers me, as I like ferries.

 

[tim]

That sounds blooming brilliant! I'm off to investigate that.

This is the video.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Dover to Calais, Calais to Dover on the way there and back by road to Prague.
To the Statue of Liberty (too busy to even try to get off).
'cross the Mersey.
More than once across the Humber as a little boy; it's possible but unlikely it was the PS Tattershall Castle but almost certainly the PS Lincoln Castle, which several years later became my regular boozer once it had been moored.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Dover - Calais
Dover - Boulogne
Dover - Ostend
Ramsgate - Ostend
Portsmouth - Cherbourg
Portsmouth - Ryde
Portsmouth - Fishbourne
Lymington - Yarmouth
Gosport Harbour
Southampton - Cowes
Poole - Jersey
Studland chain ferry thing
Staten Island Ferry
Star Ferry Hong Kong
Surat Thani - Ko Samui
Ko Samui - Ko Phangan
Caticlan - Boracay
St Kitts - Nevis
Shepperton - Weybridge
Bequia - Mustique
Santorini - Ios
Ios - Piraeus

 

[Silas Loom]

Dover to Calais
Portsmouth to St Malo
Plymouth to Roscoff
Portsmouth to Caen
Portsmouth to Ryde
Southampton to Cowes
Surat Thani to Koh Phangan

I think the only one not already covered is Corsica to Sardinia.

 

[MickiQ]

Poole to Swanage
Southampton to Cowes
Dover to Calais
Liverpool to Birkenhead
Rode the last one on my second or third date with the now Mrs Q, I couldn't stop myself and started singing 'Ferry Cross The Mersey'
Back then this made her giggle but would probably get me an exasperated sigh now.

EDIT: realised I had forgotten one
Harwich to Hook of Holland

 

[A380]

 

[Pickman's model]

dover - calais
portsmouth - cherbourg
harwich - hook of holland
sure i went from zeebrugge to dover about 25 years ago
and of course the famous ferry cross the mersey

 

[Gromit]

Believe there used to be a ferry across to Wales before they built the M4 bridges. Stopped in the 60s?

Weston Super Mare to Penarth.
Roald Dahl Used to take it to go to school.

A heritage paddle steamer still occasionally makes this route.

 

[mojo pixy]

Portsmouth - Gosport (well over a thousand times...)

Portsmouth - Ryde
Portsmouth - Cowes
Portsmouth - Caen (Ouistreham)
Portsmouth - St.Malo
Southampton - Cowes
Lymington - Yarmouth

St.Malo - St.Peter Port - St.Helier

Plymouth - Roscoff

Ramsgate - Dunkirk
Dover - Calais

Fishguard - Rosslare

Starcross - Exmouth
Shaldon - Teignmouth
Torquay - Brixham

Westminster - Greenwich

Picton - Wellington

Haifa - Limassol (no longer runs)

 

[DotCommunist]

I would like to go on a river cruise in a wheelboat like the olden days Mississippi ones.

 

[Gromit]

UK
Dover to Calis
Lymington to Yarmouth
Portsmouth to Ryde
Southampton to East Cowes
Southend to the Hook of Holland
Holyhead to Dublin
Fishguard to Rosslare

Croatia
Poreč to Venice
Pula to Zadar

Venice
Venice to Venice Airport

Australia
Sydney harbour to Manley
Sydney harbour to Cockatoo island

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Just remembered I went on some kind of ferry across the river in Exeter when I was a kid.

Butts Ferry perhaps? A rare hand-drawn one in the modern age. More likely the Starcross to Exmouth one.

Here's the gen on Butts Ferry:

Butts Ferry - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

They used to have a little sign up until a few years ago that read:

Tis yer you catch the ferry
A funny boat it be
But it gets you across the river
For only 20p

It's gone up quite a bit now, I think.

 

[A380]

I would like to go on a river cruise in a wheelboat like the olden days Mississippi ones.

Me too. You’d have thought there would be loads of modern river cruise ship style ones, but that doesn’t seem to be a big thing apparently.

 

[pinkmonkey]

The one from Hull to Denmark
The one from Dover to Calais
The Woolwich Ferry (my friend Jez thought I was winding him up and said it didn't exist). He was mind-blown when I showed him it in the A to Z)
Two (or three was it?) from Krabi to Koh Lanta
One in Venice, plus the little boat taxi or bus thingies
Two in Sydney
Star Ferry in Hong Kong - TST to HK Island
Hong Kong to Zhuhai
Hong Kong to Guangzhou
Probably other HK/China ferries that I can't remember.

 

[Elpenor]

Butts Ferry perhaps? A rare hand-drawn one in the modern age. More likely the Starcross to Exmouth one.

Here's the gen on Butts Ferry:

Butts Ferry - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

They used to have a little sign up until a few years ago that read:

Tis yer you catch the ferry
A funny boat it be
But it gets you across the river
For only 20p

It's gone up quite a bit now, I think.

Now 50p