Gordon Wilkins takes a new holiday route to the sun

with Judith Jackson

Motoring holidays in Greece come a day closer with the introduction of a new car ferry across the Adriatic. A thirty-six hour voyage on the Heleanna, a converted oil tanker with space for 600 cars, takes holidaymakers from Ancona and the autostradas of Italy to Patras at the start of the newest motorway in Greece. This new sea route to the sun saves motorists from Britain 1,000 miles of driving. But are the fares too expensive? Is it still cheaper to drive on to Brindisi and take the old short sea route or go all the way to Athens by road through Yugoslavia?
A Wheelbase report on the world's largest car ferry and what the motorist will find at the end of the journey in Greece
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