Would you?

What I find amazing, is that she was apparently kept afloat by her handbag!
I wish - in my case with my handbag ( containing everything bar the kitchen sink) , I'd have been ringing Davy Jones's doorbell in seconds!!

I nearly fell off my stool laughing at this one, it was the handbag bit that did it, I had visions of her touching up her lipstick, brushing her hair and generally tidying herself up ready to re embark whilst being borne along by a pod of dolphins

On the first cruise we went on we were entertained by a senior member of staff explaining what happens if we miss the embarkation time ( a time that's made very very clear to all from very early on for each stop).
It went something like....well we always have a very helpful Rep in every port who will kindly arrange hotel accommodation and first class travel arrangements to swiftly reunite you with the ship at the earliest convenient stop.....then we give you a VERY BIG BILLl!!.

So hey, perhaps she was desperate....but she certainly had a lot of bottle!!

Alea , thank you , I so needed a laugh today !

Is there a link? could do with a laugh!!

Jaw droopingly stupid. That story was four days early

Damn predictive..droppingly not droopingly

grannylyn65 try Daily Telegraph on line, sorry not good with links.

Here you are, grannylyn

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/portugal/12205628/British-holidaymaker-tried-to-swim-to-cruise-liner-when-it-left-port-in-Portugal.html

Amazing, isn't it? Though I must say I've only ever been on two cruises, and after a fortnight on the last one I was getting so stir crazy I was starting to fantasise about swimming to shore.

Maggie the only long distance sea voyage I have been on was Southampton to New York in December 2012, on the QM2. It took a week and the wind strength never dropped below Gale Force 10, and thoughts of swimming ashore never entered my head.
We did find ourselves sliding off the dance floor one evening though (the effects of the ship rolling, not excessive alcohol consumption)

She wasn't called Agatha Raisin was she - sounds just like her?

If my husband had walked off and left me stranded at the airport, I`d have thought "Sod him!" and caught the flight back home anyway, leave him to his own devices.

Blimey, janea I do remember some extreme North Sea crossings on the Harwich Hamburg ferry, when DH and I were the last ones standing, clutching onto our lagers and the pillars in the disco for dear life, before lurching off to our cabins past rolling tides of other people's vomit. I still have pretty good sea legs, but would be tucked up in my swaying bed these days.

TerriBull...love it

Like a lot of people we laughed our heads off at this story. But after reading today how distressed the poor lady was on board the ship, it's very sad.

I haven't read the English newspapers but yesterday read in a local Portuguese/English weekly news magazine that this poor lady is now in a psychiatric hospital in Madeira.

Did any of you ever cross the channel on a hovercraft. I did years ago. Talk about bumpy. There was a 12 foot swell!

It is very sad petra, poor soul

Your comments on the rolling of cruise liners in heavy seas is what convinces me never to go on one. I have no sea legs at all. A driver who does not drive smoothly is too much for me. I can't cope with a rapid deceleration.

We had an interesting voyage through the Bay of Biscay on a cruise ship a couple of years ago. You know it's rough when there are piles of paper bags in the public areas

Did the Bay of Biscay once. Never Never ever again. I knew something was amiss when I fell out of my bunk at 4 in the morning. It was horrendous.

That woman was obviously in a very bad place mentally. Nothing funny in it.

We crossed the channel on the Hovercraft too Hildajenni and it was calm as a pancake and quite empty going but very bumpy coming back and also very hot in the full cabin. It took considerable willpower not to throw up! I was very glad to get off.

We did the hydrofoil many years ago....it could only run when the sea was pretty calm.....but it was still a hell of a ride then...........not for the faint stomached!