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Subject: 'Seasickness Ferry Blues'

Author:
Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 15:35:12 06/04/05 Sat

Those of you out there who have travelled by the Harwich to Bremmerhaven shuttle, you have my sympathy! Especially in the middle of winter, and the sea is in gale force mode!
For a landlubber like me it was like going around Cape Horn. Sheer bloody hell! They had a restaurant on board this ferry called 'The Goldern Guinea' where you payed twenty-one shillings for as much as you could eat. Mainly scandinavian stuff, like pickled herring and the like. Anyway by the time that we had consummed this we were in the mood for some serious drinking as the boat was begining to rock and roll, what they commonly called a heavy swell. Better that than trying to get tossed about below decks. The toilets was swimming in puke! Everybody was staggering about like drunks. Have you ever noticed on board ship that the only one's not staggering about were the drunks! They were the only people that were walking in straight lines. Eventually we reached our destination worse for wear, battered and bruised and suffering from acute hangovers. On board ship, no problems but upon reaching dry land I and my fellow compatriots were staggering about just like the rest of the passengers who made the crossing with us were. Totally surreal! Been on numerous ferries but that crossing was the worst that I have ever experienced then or since! Those sailor types must have caste iron constitutions thats all I can say. There is something to be said for Naval pukes, after all!..Don't you think?

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