When we visited Brittany this summer, we took the ferry to Isle de Houat, just of the coast of the Gulf of Morbihan. The Gulf is a large inland bay with many small islands, where the mild and sheltered conditions make it a favourite area for sailors. One of my Europe travel tips, if you’re [...]

In this guest post Rachel Cotterill gives us the lowdown on planning an island hopping trip around the The Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, “When you think of an island-hopping adventure, I’d wager that for most people, what springs to mind is more likely to be the Carribean or Greece than Scotland. But [...]

Following my post earlier today about Ryanair’s rescue fare for passengers stranded by the collapse of Sterling Airlines, I received an email from DFDS Seaways with details of the free travel available for stranded Sterling passengers on their Harwich to Esbjerg ferry. DFDS Seaways are offering free transport to Sterling Airways passengers after the airline [...]

You can buy a return Sail Rail ticket to Dublin for only £54 from UK cities such as London and Newcastle. Sail Rail is a partnership of British and Irish ferry and train operators. The ferry crossings used are Fishguard to Rosslare, Holyhead to Dublin, Stranraer to Belfast. I did a search for a Sail [...]

It seems that my suspicions earlier this year about travellers claiming they wanted to be greener and taking on action of this front are all too true. According to a recent opinion poll only 7% of UK holidaymakers are willing to pay to offset the environmental effects of their trip. Could part of the reason [...]

You may think of Scotland as a wet, cloudy and gloomy place but this was Oban, on the west coast of Scotland, basking in the evening sun on Friday last week. I think it looks more like the Italian Riveria! McCaig’s Tower, the classical folly in the background only adds to the illusion. Oban is [...]

As the newly elected Scottish Executive plans to scrap tolls on the Forth and Tay road bridge there have been calls to abolish fares on ferries to the Scottish islands.  I suppose it is a logical progression, if you can cross a body of water free in the central belt of Scotland why not to [...]

I came across this site which has links to all the Greek ferries. A great resource is you are thinking of island hopping in Greece. When I travelled around the islands in the 1978 it was really difficult to get information about the ferry timetables. You’d ask at the tourist office and then the ferry [...]

There were 36 million passenger ferry trips from the UK in 2005, an increase or 400,000 pasenger trips during the previous year. This follow a period of falling passenger trips, probably due to the growth of low cost flights. Passengers are citing reasons such as unrestricted baggage and short check in times as factors influencing [...]

Ferries are a really good option for travelling to Europe from the UK in several situations. If you live in the south east of England, it is short crossing over the English channel. If there are several passengers in the car, it can be much cheaper than flying. You can take a lot more luggage, [...]