Friday, May 27, 2005 Today I left London to head to Portsmouth, England where I took a Brittany Ferry to Caen, France. Actually the ferry lands in Ouistreham (wee-stra-ham.) I had initially thought that the ride only took about 4 hours but, it actually took about 6 hours to cross the channel, with the time change it ended up being 7 total hours. That doesn’t seem too bad until you consider that I was on a ferry with about 500 school children ranging in age from 10-13. Kids of those ages are not behaved or very quite. Compounded by the fact that every one of them was French. Six hours of screaming French children is more than any man should have to endure, but I think that it bothered all of the British passengers more than
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