Seaham – Ferry at Newcastle

41.1 km

After a short and cold night, the alarm clock rings. Breakfast is still available in a sleeping bag, so cold it has become at night. Below 10 degrees. The campsite is beautiful, but in the middle of forests, fields and the sea. There is nothing that keeps the heat and it gets moist. It doesn't help, we have to go. And if we have to pull almost all the clothes on top of each other.

We have already packed a bag for the ship in the evening, so that everything is now distributed differently. But it's also going so relatively well.

After the first bumpy piece back through the fields, it goes downhill, the campsite was on top of the mountain. And then always along the sea, i.e. on the coastal road.

Already for lunch, shortly after twelve, we are at the ferry. After a short detour up a mountain, as construction is underway in the harbour, we stand at a crossroads and don't really know where long. But a yellow jacket beckons us in our lane. Half an hour later (we got behind some motorcycles), it comes out that this is not a snake at all and we have to line up for check-in. The car behind us is a Cologne. In the meantime, it is again almost normal to be able to communicate in German.

When we just want to walk to the toilet again, the switch opens. Already more than two hours earlier than indicated. Actually quite practical, as we experience later very gratefully. Check-in and security checks are done quickly, and we are the first to stand in the big square in our lane, waiting to be admitted to the ship. Slowly, the motorcycles that had been in front of us before are lined up behind us. The Cologne era continues a few lanes. In fact, another couple with bicycles joins us. They come from England and want to go to a festival.

But we don't get on the ship first. Some caravans and especially three excavators are already on the ship before us. We are being instructed to do just that. We fasten our pack donkeys to the wall with tension belts. Afterwards we take the elevator up to deck six to our small inner cabin. In completely new clothes we want to look at the ship, but unfortunately Hannah doesn't have a clean jacket anymore and it's quite well air-conditioned indoors and fresh outside. So let's split up first. I go to explore the ship, where it pulls me out relatively quickly and I find a bench next to the kitchen. From there I can watch the further loading and use the Internet from the mainland. Even if it may not be the best air, it is nicely warm next to the kitchen. And it is also covered, because it starts to rain. Luckily, we're already on the ship. We will not leave until a few hours later. Then Hannah comes to listen to the very bleached music when she lays down, but now yes. This ship is not built to listen to music.

Then we crumple into our cabin to eat something. On another round around the ship we pass the movie posters and decide to finish a girls' evening and look at Mama Mia 2. We smash the time until the beginning of the film with the card game Phase Ten and an extension designed by Hannah, as well as a small nap. The day was exhausting and we had to get up early.

The film doesn't get a detailed review here, but for us it's a fun ending. After that we fall into bed, tomorrow morning the sun should shine and maybe we will see some of the sunrise.