[MyNameIsMethos]

So I'm in Galicia, Spain trying to get back to Ireland without cash. I'm trying to find out if there is a cargo ship, or what-have-you, leaving A Coruna in the Ireland/UK direction but to no avail so far.. Anyone any ideas for me?

I like the place here, but I have nigh no cash left so I need to get back to Ireland asap

[Improbable]

Try hitchhiking?

Maybe check out this website:

http://backseatsurfing.com/

[stevek93]

Did you try the embassy? http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=5520 http://www.embassyofireland.es/home/index.aspx?id=33978

[MyNameIsMethos]

Improbable: way ahead of you on the hitching front, that is how I ended up in Galicia (started in Andalucia) but I can only hitch so far; past that it is ocean. That website may be an interesting way back if I get a royal flush of luck: Spain-France-Channel Tunnel-England-Ireland!

Stevek93: Yep I tried the Irish embassey when I was passing through Madrid. I even pretended my passport was lost, so as to make the situation more favourable of them helping me. They made me feel right at home anyway, "Oh we can help you, but it will cost you!" (Their great idea, keeping in mind I have less then 50euro, was pay 80 for a new passport and buy a plane ticket, ranging for about 180euro). They suggested doing this by getting money transferred from Ireland, an event which will not work.

From what I can gather the port which runs to Irish shores from Northern Spain is Bilbao, but no company I have contacted for further information has so far replied..

Does anyone have information on the general protocols of ports? As in will I be able to walk onto an active port and start enquiring of a lift, or is it solely port personnel allowed?

[snowey07]

have you tried free wheelers

http://freewheelers.co.uk/index.php

or visit every campsite and hostel and see is anyone driving back

Id also recommend hitching to Santander and try to get a seat in a car going on the ferry to plymouth. Its a long hitch tho

[MyNameIsMethos]

Now I didn´t know of the ferry in Santander! That´s handy handy knowledge, seeing as it would be along my route to Bilbao! Many thanks Snowey Nah all the people I´ve asked over here flew in and are flying back; it is mostly pilgrims who walked to Santiago so they´re transport free. Feck it I´ll get back some way or another, and if all else fails the Autumn fruits are beginning to come in nicely

[Stinicker]

Can't you pawn something like a watch or phone? failing that try some one of those legalised loan sharks like wonga.com to give you a few hundred to get home. Who the hell goes travelling anyway without a few grand of a contingency they can access in the case of an emergency?

[MyNameIsMethos]

Originally Posted by Stinicker

Can't you pawn something like a watch or phone? failing that try some one of those legalised loan sharks like wonga.com to give you a few hundred to get home.

Nope, nothing to pawn, travelling without an ounce of technology, working off tourist office internet.

Wonga.com are out of the question, because that would entail rising a debt that I would have no interest in repaying the interest on.

Originally Posted by Stinicker

Who the hell goes travelling anyway without a few grand of a contingency they can access in the case of an emergency?

Answer= someone who planned to travel for as little cost as possible + live off the land, who then decided he had travelled for long enough and decided to return to home soil for a brief respite(last tuesday marks 12 weeks, with a total bill of +-600euro).

[Captain Commie]

I find it hard that you went on a trip like this without making sure you had a backup plan to get back to ireland when the time came.

You either need to get someone to send the money to you, or suck it up and pay the interest to a site like wonga!

[MyNameIsMethos]

Or find work/live with some monks for a while again until all the pieces fall into place to get back home. So long as I am secure here, I don't mind a wait in the sun

I do not mind being over here. The life is good. To get money sent over or, heavens forbid, get in contact with something like wonga would entirely ruin the ethos of this trip.

[Captain Commie]

Originally Posted by MyNameIsMethos

Or find work/live with some monks for a while again until all the pieces fall into place to get back home. So long as I am secure here, I don't mind a wait in the sun

I do not mind being over here. The life is good. To get money sent over or, heavens forbid, get in contact with something like wonga would entirely ruin the ethos of this trip.

but coming on boards looking a way to freeload it back to ireland, thats completely in with the ethos of it is it?

[bazingaboom]

get a job over there

[MyNameIsMethos]

Originally Posted by Captain Commie

but coming on boards looking a way to freeload it back to ireland, thats completely in with the ethos of it is it?

Yep; the entire trip has been fuelled by goodwill & what the world can provide, through luck or nature, so it fits the ethos well to come online & look for advice

Bazingaboom, tried already, the work situation over here is worse then Ireland. The best bet for work is to finish off my TEFL & apply in one of the many many language schools. Working on that as we type.

Weŕe going off topic, I know all the info I could need to possibly stay here, got myself set up in a nice wilderness setting with figs & blackberries coming in soonish, and thereś fish to be caught, but I´m trying to get back to Ireland.

Lukit, if anyone knows a truck driver heading from Bilbao/Santander-Dublin, tell them to gimme a shout ok? I´ll be the tall dude standing by the port looking all German, with about 30kg of luggage strapped to their back!

[lc180]

Originally Posted by MyNameIsMethos

Answer= someone who planned to travel for as little cost as possible + live off the land, who then decided he had travelled for long enough and decided to return to home soil for a brief respite(last tuesday marks 12 weeks, with a total bill of +-600euro).

I'm great at travelling on the cheap but €600 for 12 weeks is f*cking amazing. One question: how?

Best of luck with your situation, but my number one rule of backpacking alone is having a credit card encase of emergencies!

[MyNameIsMethos]

Staying in tent, water purification tablets, cheap/ass supermarkets and an epic amount of fishing/foraging! Also, I did not have access to all the cash at once, 50euro at each milestone.

Normally I would agree re the credit card, but I wanted to test myself as much as possible. In either case, if I had had a secret emergency line, I would have been out of here WAAY back, or it would have at least been well used up by now. I'm normally very bad with money, hence the dripfeed