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Boullay:- Monday, 17. May 1999:- A Thursday afternoon 14:00 sailing time on the Pride of Dover from Calais to those white cliffs meant we left downtown Boullay-les-Troux in deepest Essonne just south of Paris, about 9:30 last week.

Everything Is Apple Pie In the UK

LindaThalm
2005-12-02 17:19:50

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Boullay:- Monday, 17. May 1999:- A Thursday afternoon 14:00 sailing time on the Pride of Dover from Calais to those white cliffs meant we left downtown Boullay-les-Troux in deepest Essonne just south of Paris, about 9:30 last week.

Always looking for new routes, we roadtested the A-16 autoroute, from Beauvais to the channel, which turned out to be an empty speedway - amazing, non?
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It left us - me, my partner and a friend, time for a coffee break in Calais and we picked up our tickets, previously ordered by phone with the P&O Stena lines. We couldn't seem to do it - sigh - on their Web site.v

The tickets were for three people cost us 740 francs for a 72-hour stay.

We have tried ferries, Le Shuttle and the hydrofoil in our many trips between the U.K. and France, but I still prefer the ferries. Breakfast, lunch or dinner in the sit-down restaurantphoto: 20 ferry airmiles is relaxing, calm, practical and the food is good.

Coupons, whimsically called 'airmiles,' earned from our lunch on the boat.

I had the £9.90 - about 100 francs - set lunch. Choice of soup or prawn cocktail for starters; roast beef, fried scampi or vegetable lasagna for the main course; apple pie or ice cream for desert.

After soup and scampi I forced myself to consume a 15-centimetre high 'vase' full of ice cream and chocolate sauce. Drinks involved the 'obligatory' gin tonic apéritif - known in France as 'apéro' - an Australian Shiraz wine with the meal, followed by a pot - not just a cup - of delicious coffee.

The portions were copious, the service attentive, the view - well obscured by lifeboats, but glad they had them. The ferries aren't as large as the Titanic, but La Manche is full of water, although no icebergs to my knowledge.

We were in stitches when we received 'air miles' on coupons after paying for lunch. ...