Category Archives: Sea

Sea

A critical look at the London to Dublin Sail Rail journey

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Travelling the green route from Great Britain to the Republic of Ireland has been covered a number of times on leading green travel website Greentraveller.

Our journey across the Atlantic by cargo ship

We’ve safely crossed the Atlantic by container ship (barring a 24-hour engine repair at sea). We had hoped to find passage from London to New York, but the closest we could find was a booking on a ship from Liverpool, England to Chester, Pennsylvania.

On a freighter in the Pacific

By the time you read this, we should be aboard the MV Hanjin Madrid, a container ship traveling from the Seattle to Yokohama, Japan.  

The Unpredictable Sea

The livelihood of the local Vezo people is completely dependent on the sea. This is, after all, why we are here: we are providing the science to help the Vezo understand how make the most of what their sea has to offer.

The world’s largest passenger carrying container ship

The CMA CGM Christophe Colomb can carry up to 13,300 twenty-foot equivalent containers and ten passengers. It is one of the largest container ships in the world, too big to fit through the Panama Canal

Book review: Writer explores England by kayak

As British writer David Aaronovitch points out in the introduction to his 2000 travel book/memoir, Paddling to Jerusalem, in the last few years writers have walked around England under the guise of just about every gimmick imaginable.

10 Of The World’s Best Ferry Rides

I love ferries because they let you see much of the same scenery you’d pass on a tourist boat cruise, at a fraction of the cost and without the stupefyingly dull taped commentary.

The Green Route: London To Dublin

Stephen Chapman reccounts his journey from London to Dublin by train and ferry.