Our Big Adventure

Isle of Wight

It's a lovely sunny day so we decide to take a day trip to the Isle of Wight on the Hovercraft. We cross the choppy Solent in this smooth and speedy craft and arrive in Ryde, the largest town on this small island that’s total area is only 380 sq kms. The day is still lovely and sunny so we hop on the open top bus to start our visit to the island. The scenery here is quite stunning, white chalk rocks jutting out of the sea, quaint villages with thatched roofed stone houses and sandy beaches, unique, as most are stony or shale in Britain, and cattle and sheep grazing on green farms bordered by well-kept hedgerows. We see the house where Alfred Lord Tennyson once lived and where he wrote one of his most famous books, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’. Our ticket allows us to hop on and off so naturally we stop for tea and scones at a lovely spot on the coast, and also visit The Needles Battery, which was built to protect Britain from invasion and used during both the first and second world wars. We have managed to see most of this lovely island in a day and catch the Hovercraft back to Southsea, our little apartment and a nice glass of red.

posted by Brian and Julie @ 6:50:00 AM