Going abroad, done properly

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 05/18/2019 at 16:36 • Filed to: Tourists, Morgan

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Seen in the bowels of the good ship Connemara earlier this week (she was built in Italy and was previously the good ships Borja, Baltic Amber, Norman Asturias and Asterion, in the nature of ferries. She’s currently owned by a Swedish company and leased to a French one. Despite all that she proudly flies the flag of Cyprus, because of course she does). N aturally the crew are mainly Polish, so just like my local Costa or Starbucks .

One tourist with a teenchy little caravan, and one splendid chap in a Morgan.

ranwhenparked > Cé hé sin 05/18/2019 at 16:55

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Didn’t that ship used to belong to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ cousin? 

gmctavish needs more space > Cé hé sin 05/18/2019 at 16:58

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An Italian built,  Swedish owned, French run ship, with an Irish name. Weird/interesting.

Cé hé sin > gmctavish needs more space 05/18/2019 at 16:59

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Common in that business. The signs are in up to four languages, which don't necessarily include English.

gmctavish needs more space > Cé hé sin 05/18/2019 at 17:01

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Also, I can’t imagine towing anything with a Yaris. Those barely have enough power to get themselves down a highway, let alone with the trailer. I imagine it’s manual though, which would help a lot 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Cé hé sin 05/18/2019 at 17:25

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What? Not in Engli s h? Isn’t English the national language of nations?

Cé hé sin > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/18/2019 at 17:34

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I see you haven’t been on a well used car ferry recently -one of the passenger notices was in Italian, Greek, French and Spanish. Announcements were in French and English by a Spaniard. The master was from Ireland, the crew were mainly Polish. What the mainly F rench passengers thought about crew who mostly didn’t speak a word of F rench is unknown.

Cé hé sin > gmctavish needs more space 05/18/2019 at 17:38

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You’d be surprised . I’m guessing the little caravan is unbraked, so if it’s under 550kg you’re good to go.

Jordan > gmctavish needs more space 05/18/2019 at 17:59

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Not a Yaris. Its a Opel Corsa (or a Vauxhall Corsa, if it was sold in the UK or Ireland). Terrible tow vehicle, because some versions take 15.5 seconds to reach 60. Can’t imagine what it would be like going up a hill with the trailer.

gmctavish needs more space > Cé hé sin 05/18/2019 at 18:38

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Wow, yeah I am indeed surprised 

gmctavish needs more space > Jordan 05/18/2019 at 18:40

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Huh, so it is. Oh god, yeah that wouldn’t be a good time 

Svend > Jordan 05/18/2019 at 19:13

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Only Vauxhall in the U.K., it's Opel everywhere else including Ireland. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Cé hé sin 05/18/2019 at 22:37

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I’m sure that’s all true, though it would not have occurred to me to wonder at how the French might feel about anything.