Travellia

Last Saturday, around lunch time, the weather happened to be sunny and bright. Debating how we could best make use of such a rare occurrence of sunshine, we concluded that it might be a good idea to take a ferry somewhere - in this case, as foot passengers, from Dover to Calais in France. Many people use this route for alcohol, cigarette and other shopping supplies, however we were going merely for the journey, to enjoy a trip on the sea and have a look at the city and port that lay on the other side of the English Channel. We jumped in the car and made our way to the "White Cliffs of Dover" , not entirely sure how long the drive would take, but Google Maps had assured us it wouldn't be over two hours. We were pleasantly surprised that we managed to reach Dover in about an hour and a half - no, not due to excessive speed but because the traffic happened to be rather light. On arrival at the ferry travel and information centre, we had the option of choosing betw