My friend and I had booked ourselves onto a day trip on the ISLE OF INISHMORE on the 15:00 sailing out from Holyhead on Saturday January 21, returning on the 21:05. Once on board for the return trip, the departure time came and went, until it was announced that the sailing was cancelled due to the bow ramp having been damaged!

Then we were also told that the 09:05 crossing on Sunday morning was cancelled. We were then told that if we were to stay on board the ship until 07:00 (oh, and apparently we were “welcome to sleep in any of the lounges” – how generous!), then we would be transferred to the STENA ADVENTURER's 08:30 sailing – as foot passengers!!!

So that is what we did, and ended up with the longest “day trip” I have ever made, with the added bonus of travelling back on the Adventurer, which to me is a seriously underrated ship, and it’s time that foot passengers were allowed to choose to travel on this ship, without having to experience the kind of delay we did last night and this morning.

So, here are some photos taken of the stricken Isle of Inishmore stuck on Dublin’s Berth 49, taken from the passing Stena Adventurer. Just goes to show that despite Stena’s excuses that it is “not possible to accept foot passengers on the Stena Adventurer”, this is clearly very easy to do in times of need.