@SamBourne14 What I’ll say. Foot pax. Walking from the station to the ferry in this pouring rain. One of the most miserable experiences of my life. Then the vending machines don’t even work at Troon
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Fred Baumgärtner
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Fred Baumgärtner
@FABaumgartner
Senior Tour Guide @LaggWhisky 🥃 | Once studied Medieval History @univofstandrews and @EdinburghUni | All views my own |
Isle of Arran Katılım Kasım 2010
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Honestly not sure what's going on here, but it looks like ALL sailings from Ardrossan have been suspended from the website. 🧐
Just trying to organise my life for a simple work trip for a week, and it's becoming uber complex and expensive.
2 additional overnight now required.
Sam Bourne 🏴⛵@SamBourne14
@CalMac_Updates Attempting to book 2030 ARD-BRO, foot pax only, next Friday, 20 June. No sailings showing. At all. For any date from Ardrossan. What gives?! 🤔 Please advise. Consequence is yet another overnight hotel & subsistence claim.
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@SamBourne14 I need to go away on Saturday but haven’t booked. Is there any point showing up in the morning and trying to buy a ticket at Brodick or not ffs
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When you are planning what boat to get to get on a flight from Glasgow this Sunday afternoon......
Useful. 😐
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@CalMac_Updates It’s Easter guys. Arrans busiest month for businesses. Come onnnn
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🔶AMBER #Troon #Brodick 1-23Apr To allow for sufficient time for MV Alfred to carry out crew training and drills, amendments are in place. Please see: calm.ac/41
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@ScotRail what’s the delay on the 1916 train from Troon to Glasgow? And how long roughly do you know?
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@CalMac_Updates That’s what the app shows… ngl troops the new app and website are shocking. Bring the old one back it was totally fine..
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@FABaumgartner operate from Monday here: assets.calmac.co.uk/media/xeketvkf… Thanks 2/2
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@SamBourne14 I can’t make heads of tails of the new @CalMac_Updates app. Do you know if there’s a 5.20 from the island to Troon on Tuesday? I’ve booked a ticket for it but I now can’t see that sailing on the app itself lol
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@SamBourne14 Is she even coming back? They keep finding new things. Mist have replaced all the steel on her by now
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Trying to process the news that our main ferry is likely to be out until April (15 months!) with major issues in stern tubes, gearboxes, and bent structural frames. Majors!
Firstly, it means we will enter the third year of chaos, with a 41-year old boat as the core vessel.
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Another absolute classic of the genre. Boat about to load, and breaks down. 🙄
Work travel logistics and flights now in the bin. 👍
Big problem now is that it is blocking the berth so the other boat can't dock. 😱
This is just ridiculous now. 😡
CalMac Service Info@CalMac_Updates
⚠️YELLOW #Ardrossan #Brodick 21Oct Due to a technical issue the 08:20 sailing departing Brodick will be delayed allowing further investigation. An update will be provided once more information becomes available.
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@SamBourne14 Alfred will probably go right? Was booked on the 2.35 but have decided just to take the 8.20 now as I have important work commitments I can’t miss. But I now have hours and hours spare…. Stupid
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Heads up.....
Moderate easterly outside the operating window for the Ardrossan Arran Berth may mean diversion to Troon, or cancelled sailings on Friday afternoon.
Another shaky start to a weekend, in the best bit of weather for months.
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CalMac Service Info@CalMac_Updates
⚠️YELLOW #Ardrossan #Brodick 20Sep Due to the forecast of strong Easterly winds, all sailings from the 11:05 departing Brodick on wards are liable to diversion or cancellation at short notice
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@CalMac_Updates I think you guys would find it useful to train your staff at Troon how to find the shuttle bus and when they can get it instead of letting them brave the unloading traffic.
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@voneusbroadband continue to be just as bad a service as Broadway partners they took over.
Shocking, incompetent and absent. Yous must be laughing at the poor sods you get to take advantage of.
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Fred Baumgärtner retweetledi
17 April 1551, Regent Arran got on a boat at Ardrossan to check out his building project at Brodick, 'propter constructione et aedificationem unius turrim in castro de Brodik in Arrane'. Food was a takeaway brought in two ships from Glasgow, his silverware shipped from Saltcoats.
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@DrFrancisYoung @phillipsc Be honest about it and get no money?
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@phillipsc What I find tragic about cathedrals doing stuff like this isn’t even the fact that they’re doing it, but the rather pathetic attempt to justify it in missional terms. If the Dean and Chapter are strapped for cash it’s best just to be honest about it
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@CalMac_Updates when’s the update for Arran? Just need to know before I get the train from Glasgow or not.
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Fred Baumgärtner retweetledi
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@Joe_Wargamer Find those photos so wild. Can’t imagine what being there must have been like.
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@Jotterface @davidjbrodie A shop. A cafe. A whisky bar. A reception. A tour team. Managers. Cleaner. Big building!
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@FABaumgartner @davidjbrodie Really? That is far more than I would have expected.
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@Jotterface @davidjbrodie We’re 17 and that’s not a full team/capacity/summer staffing levels…
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@davidjbrodie Presumably this is all just mothballed until they have more to show/sell? 14 is a lot of staff for a visitor centre though.
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