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... after all, I do have an Aero.
Actually, I don't really know. I did get the Holyhead ferry once. When I bought my 9000 CD on impulse in Belfast (I was there for Christmas and intended to take a train to Dublin to support a production build in our Dublin factory immediately afterward), I went back via the Holyhead ferry. Imagine me with a hangover (the build was a great success!) driving to Dunleary to take the fast ferry (catamaran) to Holyhead, only to find that the weather was too severe for the cat to sail, so having to drive back to Dublin to catch the conventional ferry (paying the bridge toll both ways and inadvertently tossing a UK pound coin into the machine instead of an Irish pound coin), and managing to board the ferry with minutes to spare. Then facing a four-hour voyage (cat is only two) in the weather that stopped the cat from sailing...
I did feel a little queasy.
I think I worked it out once and it is just as far to drive, remembering that it is almost exactly 100 miles from Dublin to Belfast. I've got used to driving through the night. It's the only way to get a clear run on the M1/M6. I usually book the 5:15 ferry from Stranraer, which means leaving home around 8pm the previous evening, but I thought I'd get some sleep beforehand this time. I do enjoy the A75 in the early morning. In fact, I had a good drive back along the 75 (starting from Stranraer around midnight). Blasted past a Volvo who started out being cocky in the 30-limit in Stranraer but lost his bottle on the bends later on. A bit later, I had a bit of a duel with an unidentified car (it was dark) - I thought the Volvo driver had become brave, but when I got to the first services on the M6, I saw an Alfa 164 (9000's cousin) pull in a few minutes behind me and remembered seeing it at Belfast. Perhaps it was he who had a go. It was the alternating roundabouts and straights on the Dumfries bypass that allowed me to build an unassailable lead - especially that roundabout that leads onto a long steep uphill stretch of dual carriageway.
I wasn't racing him, of course. That would have been irresponsible.
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