The Cosmopolitan Life

As discussed on previous occasions, I'm doing a lot of travelling at the moment, and there's Dublin, Stockholm, New York and San Francisco on the agenda within the next two to three weeks. But all of those destinations pale beside the glamour and glitz of my bank holiday Sunday.

We've been to the Isle of Wight.

It was a very, very last minute decision (like, 10am Sunday morning we went online and booked ourselves on the 1.30pm crossing). Nightmare traffic on the way down hardly got us into a restful state of mind, but once we were there it was brilliant - I can't believe I've never been before, but we'll definitely be going again. We went to an on-the-surface-of-it cheesy zoo (Amazon World - *very* well done, and far more extensive than you realise it's going to be), drove out to the west coast to look at The Needles and to scramble around on rocks, and then drove back across country ("Look! Rabbits! Hundreds of the buggers.") to Ventnor for a pub dinner and then back on the 11pm ferry. Long day, with a very late finish (home at nearly 2am), but entirely worth it. Made it feel like a proper long weekend, having gone away.

(We've got the next two weekends away too, by the way, but that's beside the point.)

Posted on May 2, 2005 01:02 PM

A very under rated place the IOW. Forget the east coast with all the kiss-me-quick hats and stick to the east. Much quieter, better beaches and still loads to do.

Posted by Andy Mulhearn on May 4, 2005 08:43 AM

Now i don't know which side to go!!!

Posted by Mike on May 4, 2005 10:06 AM

Big thumbs up from me too on the IOW, we spent a long weekend at a B & B in Ventnor, and it was like slipping into a timewarp.
Tea in China cups on the beach..! and driving around on the eastern end was a real pleasure, this was in summer and we often didn't see another car for miles !
AND there's a really good Roman Villa.
AND dinosaurs !

Posted by Pete on May 4, 2005 05:00 PM

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