On My Way Home!

August 19, 2008

Just time to write a quick note to say I’m on a big container ship in Brevik waiting for it to slip its lines and sail to Immingham in the UK, which it should reach on 20 August at 0200 - then I join the family in Cornwall for the last part of the summer holiday by the beach

Thanks for all of your emails and comments, it’s been great to be in touch with you. Ubiquitous internet connectivity and mobile phone coverage have changed travel forever - no more delight at finding post restante mail waiting after weeks of news blackout, but on the plus side I’ve never been lonely or short of something to read from you all.

They are pulling the lines in now and the engines are rumbling - can feel a surge of excitement in my cabin high on the superstructure at the back of the ship. Shortly I will be literally out of radio contact as the mobile signal falls away so this looks like being the last entry for the 2008 summer tour. It is a little sad too that travel on cargo ships from the UK to Norway direct is evidently coming to an end for foot passengers as the UK Border Force looks to regularise ports of entry further. The next time I do this trip, and I’m sure I will, I may be arriving into Norway on a passenger ferry from Denmark or Sweden instead.