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Saw this. Sounds good.


This arrived today from Brittany Ferries in their latest Newsletter.


"As you may have seen in recent media coverage, we’re looking seriously at the potential of a UK to Porto route,
to commence in June. A firm decision should be made imminently following discussions with port partners in the
UK and Portugal. Portsmouth or Plymouth will be the UK departure point offering twice weekly return sailings.
If it goes ahead this would be the first time in more than 40 years that Brittany Ferries has opened a route to a
new country and will offer travellers the opportunity to avoid airport hassles and sail direct to the first major
tourist destination to make it onto the UK government’s green list."

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If it’s just 1 ferry providing the service , 2 sailings from the U.K./week , then about 36hrs?
Maybe a little less. Portsmouth - Bilbao is 23-29 hours depending on which boat. Porto looks a little further but not that much. I’d guess 28-34 hours. Assuming a fair crossing of the Bay of Biscay of course :oops:
Very interesting possibility.
 
Does that mean reduction of other route?
used the Santander crossing this time of year about 6 years ago, wow what a shocker it was, couldn’t understand why shutters were coming down on the windows and tables were all getting chained up!
 
Or how about Poole to Tangier?

 

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