TerryDorset

At last our travel plans coincide with Honfleur's schedule. We're booked on her, but not until November next year. At least that gives enough time for the teething troubles to be sorted out!

Great vid Tony

Has anyone else received a survey from BF about their last 2years travel? Amongst all the seemingly pointless questions it asks how you would feel about Club Voyage changing or merging with another loyalty scheme like Tesco Clubcard, Nectar etc. God forbid☹️

That isn't my experience of being diverted on BF. The one time it happened to me they paid me a mileage allowance for the extra driving distance. Can't remember if there was any fare adjustment too. In the case of Brest to Bilbao that would be substantial.

Whilst I'm not overly impressed with the beta site, no particular reason, probably just because I'm a stick in the mud old f*rt, I am very impressed with the can-do attitude of Millard and his team, which probably comes down from BF management. When I was a software developer the pressure from above to go live with a system that hadn't been properly tested or approved by users was enormous. They seemed to think they knew better than the developers. That's probably why in-house IT in the civil service got such a bad reputation. So well done guys. ☺️

All things being equal we should be on that return sailing, having put the mobil-home to bed for the winter and topped up with wine for Christmas

It depends what you want. It'll be dark for sleeping and quiet, apart possibly for the lapping of water as it's probably below the water line. We had a cabin on deck 1 once and it was perfectly satisfactory for what we wanted at the time.

Bit of a drift off topic here I think. Dragging it back, wasn't there discussion about the new deposits a little time back. I seem to remember airing a theory that it was to help compensate for not being able to charge a surcharge for credit card payments?

Yes, you just book on board, usually in the shop.

Hope it's built to last, we'll be using it on Sunday!

The cynical side of me thinks it may be a way of generating income now they can't charge a surcharge for credit cards.

... is open! Tweeted 30 minutes ago by PHC. I wonder how long for.....

Given Boris' record on bridges, I don't think this is overly serious.

Didn't see one.

I enjoyed "Les Chorists", which has the advantage of being available in English as "The Choir"