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The end of my Channel-ferry love affair

It’s said that you always know when you do something for the first time, but you don’t always know when you do something for the last time.

But I’m fairly sure that something I’ve done for the last time is cross the English Channel as a foot passenger.

Popping on to a ferry ’twixt Dover and Calais was a day trip I often enjoyed in times gone by (Newhaven to Dieppe was also a delight). But it has now

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