Ferry – The Blue Van – Overland Travels

Ferries

Max — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:32:48 +0000

The ferries you take over to the Shetland Islands are luxurious and fun. On the ferries there are cabins which you can rent for the night and a lounge called the Magnus Lounge. The lounge cost around £10 to get in but once you are in you get free soft drinks and snacks. There is also is a play area for little kids and a room with video games for older ones. The one with the video games costs money to play my sister and I found out. It cost £1 for fifteen minutes, which is kind of expensive. When we went on the ferry from Orkney to Shetland we slept in the Pod Lounge, which is a room filled with these strange chair this for sleeping. My mom and Sylvia didn’t sleep in there and instead slept on the floor of the cinema. You can also buy breakfast on the ferry for yourself. You can buy a meal or the all you can eat breakfast buffet. We got the all you can eat breakfast buffet because for every adult meal you buy, two kids under sixteen eat free. The breakfast was pretty good. They had soda and juice. The eggs were ones you can buy that are freeze dried that you have to put in water to eat, so they were in a tub of water. After breakfast I felt sick. The ferry are called Northlink, and they sail to the Orkney Islands and to Shetland. The ferries also come with free wifi that, once you get out to sea, is very slow. Also on the ferries are gambling machines, which Jack spent £5 on. It was a sunny day on Shetland which is very rare. The ferries ride over is around twelve hours. The ferries are super nice and fun and have comfortable chairs.

Shetland – Sylvia

admin — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:05:49 +0000

We went on a ferry to the Shetland Islands, it’s a part of Scotland. It’s famous for the sheep that make beautiful yarn. These are special sheep they are not like any other sheep because this is such a tiny island that all the same here but different from every where else. It’s famous for these ponies that are very small and they have been here for thousands of years. They are very tiny and they have lots of hair. To get here, we had to take 2 ferries. One to the Orkney Islands that took 90 minutes and one to Lerwick that took 12 hours. It had a theater, gaming area, bar lounge, restaurants and a store. There was no people von the ferry at all. We slept in the theater, me and my mom but everyone else slept in this place called the Pod Lounge. The Pod Lounge cost £10 more to sleep in one but we didn’t have to pay because there was no one there. A pod was a chair that was comfortable and you can lean back. I didn’t sleep in there because I didn’t want to be quiet. The next morning we went to breakfast. It was all you could eat so I was excited. The food wasn’t v that good. I don’t eat eggs so I don’t know how good the eggs were. The bacon was Scottish and not like American bacon. American is fried in a pan and is crispy but Scottish bacon is more like ham and it’s called rashers. I didn’t like the bacon. I had cereal. When we got off the ferry we drove to a cliff over the ocean with no fences. My brother Jack got very close and I got freaked out. We found two fairy rocks! The rocks had deep puddles around them.

Thanksgiving Part II

admin — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:30:03 +0000

We decided that we needed to leave on Thanksgiving Day to make it 420 miles to Eunice by Saturday. We reached a consensus and decided to eat Thanksgiving dinner at the Golden Corral. They did not open until 4pm. So we picked some grapefruit – Sylvia was most impressed with this project.

Then we say outside in the sunshine. The Port Isabel Park had a Thanksgiving Pot Luck that began at 12:30. The very nice people at the campground were very kind and insisted we go to the Thanksgiving potluck. We hadn’t made anything so we didn’t want to go but they kindly insisted so we went and it was very nice. Also the food later at the Golden Corral was pretty bad. We met many nice people in Port Isabel, hope they stay in touch

with us.

We hitched up the camper and drove 20 miles to the Brownsville Golden Corral. It was hot & sunny.

The Golden Corral was crowded. The kids however loved the idea. They had Blue Bell handscooped ice cream and tons of gummy bears and best of all, a cotton candy machine. We tried to stay until they closed at 8pm but we just. couldn’t. do it.

Being Black Friday, we naturally chose a gigantic shopping mall

Rainy night on the Galveston Ferry

Expedition Vehicle on the ferry

parking lot to spend the night. We drove all the way to Corpus Christie and parked in a huge complex of stores. Jack and Ryan went Black Friday window shopping. The next day, we drove leisurely along the Texas Gulf coast through Galveston. The camper and van had to be ferried across the bay (we did this on the last trip, too). The ferry ride was great — there were dolphins!