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Minoan Line ferries run from Venice to Greece. Not been on them but passed them whilst in Venice. You apparently sleep in your Caravans or Camper van, they have overhead electric hookups. Obviously not the shortest route but save on road time going down through Italy.

http://www.minoan.gr/en

David

Do you want to go to Corfu or Igoumenitsa?  Patras is the better port for the Greek heartland.  I've nothing against Igoumenitsa (or even Corfu although it's a long way to travel for a very 'touristified' island!) but if you want to see the great Greek sites then Patras is much better.

So I can only talk about journeys to Patras although most of those ferries call at Corfu at dawn and Igoumenitas late morning. Which route you choose depends, of course, on cost but also on how much time you want to spend driving. It's a long drive to Brindisi and the crossing isn't much shorter than the one from Ancona which is the one we've used most recently. As mentioned the route with the lowest road time is to get a ferry from Venice although we found that both expensive and time-consuming in the past - but haven't tried it for several years.

Ancona seems, to us, to be the best compromise.

at Birder: Do you have suggestions for the route? And places to sleep?

at paul_m: Ancona is also a good idea.

Ancona to Patras is the one I used last.

Find out if you can use your van to sleep in - if not, have a grab bag made up with a kip mat, sleeping bag, some water and food and as soon as you get on board  head for the highest deck - throw you gear on a bench, get on top of it and go to sleep - DON'T MOVE FOR ANYONE  - people willl try to wake you move you etc but ignore them. They will eventaully drift off and bed down on the decks.... at 0300hrs the crew usually comes around with hoses to clean the decks

august 2009 i used anek lines ancona to patras on board camping you pull the

hook up cable down from the roof it had enough amps to run the air con microwave fridge

there is toilets showers on the car deck and you can use the swimming pool  cafes bars disco even bring a takeaway kebab back

i will post some pics