Cranes in the harbour of Limassol, Cyprus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Reflecting back on our seven weeks road and sea trip from Bath, UK to Cyprus, most things went pretty well.

The low points were probably related to picking up our cargo cruise from Salerno, Italy to Limassol, Cyprus.

To be fair, right from the beginning and throughout the planning, we knew that this would be the high risk point, with zero option of mitigation.

We chose the only available sea crossing for us to travel with the car. The alternative would have been to ship the car in a container and probably for us to fly.

So the low points were probably:

• Being stranded in Southern Italy for two weeks and not knowing if we were ever going to get sea passage to Cyprus
• Arriving at the ship in Salerno to be told by the Chief Mate that…