Aviatrix

Seeing the "land borders" thread revived, and after reading the discussion in that thread about whether or not ferry crossings count... I thought I'd start a new thread about international ferry crossings.

So... how many international ferry crossings have you taken?

Anyone?

Will post when I've counted mine!

clacko

zero!....i did take 1 saipan-tinian....

Redhead

One - Dover to Calais

Aviatrix

I probably didn't express myself too well... when I said "how many" I was referring to routes, not individual crossings.

brendog

I tend to avoid water-crossings as a rule, but I have done the Buquebus from Colonia del Sacramento to BA (Uruguay to Argentina).

The customs agents for the 2 countries sit at adjacent tables and check one out of one country and into the other in about 30 seconds.

railways

Always as a foot passenger:

Dover - Calais
Folkestone - Calais
Dover - Ostend (jetfoil)
Ramsgate - Calais (hovercraft)
Sheerness - Vlissingen (sorry, this was with a car)
Southampton - Cherbourg
Holyhead - Dun Laoghaire
Helsingor - Helsingborg

oh, and another UK/France one: St Martin - Anguilla

Frodosan

Friday Harbor (San Juan Island, WA) to Sidney, BC (with car)
Victoria, B.C. to Port Angeles, WA (with car)

KChar

Even though these three are all part of China, they do require passports to go from one to the other.

Zhuhai-Hong Kong
Hong Kong-Macau
Zhongshan-Hong Kong

FlyingOnceMore

Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire
Liverpool-Dublin
Dover-Calais (Ferry/Hovercraft/Seacat)
Dover-Zeebrugge
Harwich-Hook of Holland
Hull-Zeebrugge
Portsmouth-Cherbourg
Portsmouth-Bilbao
Jersey-St. Malo
Lausanne-Evian les Bains
Hong Kong-Macau
Singapore-Bintan
Langkawi-Satun, Thailand
European Turkey to Asian Turkey (seeing everyone else is cheating too...)

rankourabu

Harwich, UK -> Esbjerg, Denmark
Helsingor, Denmark -> Helsingborg, Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden -> Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki, Finland <-> Tallinn, Estonia
Hong Kong <-> Macau
Buenos Aires, Argentina <-> Colonia, Uruguay
Rundu, Namibia <-> Angola
Ancona, Italy -> Patras, Greece
Aqaba, Jordan -> Nuweiba, Egypt
Hollyhead, Wales -> Dublin, Ireland
Chang Rai, Thailand -> Laos
Seria, Brunei -> Miri, Malaysia
Kazungula crossing Botswana <-> Zambia <- my favourite ferry crossing

stut

Hmm, let me see.

Dover - Calais
Dover - Boulogne
Folkestone - Boulogne
Newhaven - Dieppe
Portsmouth - Cherbourg
Portsmouth - Ouistreham (Caen)
Portsmouth - St Malo
Portsmouth - Le Havre
Southampton - Le Havre
Poole - Cherbourg
Plymouth - Roscoff
Hull - Rotterdam
Turku - Stockholm

and one intercontinental but not international, in Istanbul!

You want to go where?

I have three conventional crossings and one unconventional.

Conventional:

Dover, UK - Calais, FR
Harwich, UK - Goteborg, SW
Port Angeles, US - Victoria, CA

Unconventional:

Brazzaville, CG - Kinshasa, CD

Not a ferry but a private boat. You couldn't pay me enough to take that rusting rattrap of a ferry.

djcutcher

but two were the same. Hong Kong to Macau.
But the first was from Calais to Dover, years ago.
Entering Dover I did not have/was not given the correct landing form and was literally shoved into a holdingpen with a personnage of possibly questionnable profession.
Once everything was sorted out I was allowed to continue, but without much empathy and certainly not wth any apology.

Aviatrix

Loads for me... though none terribly exotic (for a European), with the possible exception of the Faroese routes. I should mention that some of the ones listed I'm not actually 100% sure about... in the old, pre-Tunnel days one tended to just get on a train at Victoria, get off at a Channel port and get on a boat without even fully taking in which port it was... and the same the other side.

Here we go:

Dover-Calais
Folkestone-Calais
Dover-Oostende
Dover-Zeebrugge
Sheerness-Vlissingen
Harwich-Hoek van Holland
Harwich-Hamburg
Harwich-Bremerhaven
Harwich-Esbjerg (Denmark)
Felixstowe-Zeebrugge
Fishguard (Wales)-Rosslare(Ireland)
Puttgarden (Germany)-Rødby (Denmark)
Travemünde (Germany)-Gedser (Denmark)
Travemünde-Trelleborg (Sweden)
Travemünde-Malmö
Copenhagen-Malmö
Helsingør (Denmark)-Helsingborg (Sweden)
Klaipeda (Lithuania)-Karlshamn (Sweden)
Scrabster (Scotland)-Tórshavn (Faroe Islands)
Esbjerg-Tórshavn
Tórshavn-Bergen (Norway)-Hanstholm (Denmark)
Friedrichshafen (Germany)-Romanshorn (Switzerland)

I think that's it!

Many of these routes are now discontinued.

Ruthalaska

I can only think of two:

Dover-Calais
Buenos Aires-Colonia

I've also been on the Istanbul "intercontinental but not international" one.