Travel Story: lisa morris and jason spaff
In exchange for £2,400 each, we rode onto a
Grimaldi container ship and accompanied our bikes
across the Atlantic from Belgium to Montevideo,
Uruguay. The crossing took twenty-seven days,
incurring only a two day unscheduled stop to seek
permission to unload cargo off the coasts of West
Africa and South America. Friends asked
beforehand if we needed to work our passage or
sleep in a container - er, no to both!
We saw it as a poor man’s cruise; passengers were
secondary to the cargo although we were assigned a
decent cabin with en suite, served three meals a day
with good table wine and enjoyed the company of
two other passengers. It was relaxed and we had
ample time to dolphin-watch, indulge in some light
exercise inside the basic gym on board and learn
some Latin American Spanish.