{"id":8660,"date":"2026-06-07T21:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:19:29","slug":"eurotrip-16-2026-day-1-east-devon-to-harwich-sunday-7th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=8660","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 16, 2026 &#8211; Day 1, East Devon to Harwich, Sunday, 7th June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Departed East Devon almost at high noon and covered the 265 miles in just over six hours with two short breaks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An uninspiring and uneventful journey along the A303, M3, M25 and A12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently aboard the Stena Hollandica which is enormous. One of the largest RoRo ferries in the world. Nice cabin with double bed and single bunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ferry is very busy with over 100 motorcycles on board as well as a large complement of cars and motorhomes and lots of freight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"534\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032392-534x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032392-534x768.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032392-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032392-768x1104.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032392-1068x1536.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032392.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032372-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032372-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032372-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032372-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032372-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032372-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Eurotrip 16, Harwich to Hook of Holland check-in <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032384-576x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032384-576x768.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032384-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032384-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032384-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000032384.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Eurotrip 16, Stena Hollandica Outside berth cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departed East Devon almost at high noon and covered the 265 miles in just over six hours with two short breaks. An uninspiring and uneventful journey along the A303, M3, M25 and A12 Currently aboard the Stena Hollandica which is enormous. One of the largest RoRo ferries in the world. Nice cabin with double bed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=8660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eurotrip 16, 2026 &#8211; Day 1, East Devon to Harwich, Sunday, 7th June<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[132,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-scandinavia","category-2026-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}