Slow boat to Toulon

Collecting our, by now familiar, “breakfast bags”, and leaving our main bags behind for the courier service to collect later today, we boarded the coach for Porto Torres and left the hotel at 5.30 am. Good job they make you arrive early as the Italian bureaucracy is exercised to the full. All in line for passports where the official laboriously writes down your name on a list and your hand luggage goes through the security scanner… except some people had left their hand luggage on the bus so it was never scanned and no one checked! 😂🤣
Set sail at 7.30 and I saw the first dog as soon as I got on board, along with the little bags of dog food (see photo 😂). This ferry is MUCH less busy than the one to Corsica last week where people were lying about in every conceivable nook and cranny and we all had a cabin-again see photo. The original itinerary was an overnight crossing back to Toulon and I think that would have been better as we would have had today in Sardinia and no early start.
Anyway, we all had a cabin for the 10 hour crossing which was very good and en suite so we were able to catch up on a bit of sleep and the time went quite quickly really. Arrived 5.15 pm on time and we were in the L’eautel Hotel-an obvious play on words here with a nautical theme everywhere-by 5.45. At the back of the hotel was a lovely square with many bars and restaurants and it’s a shame we can’t stay longer and the weather is good too!Read more