Today we travel across The Solent to the Isle of Wight. We are staying in an English Heritage property for the next few nights.
So for our last morning in Portsmouth, a last visit to the Historic Dockyards to see HMS Warrior.
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–61.
And now its time to take a different sort of boat… a car ferry to the Isle of Wight.
We went Portsmouth to Fishbourne.
And we are actually staying inside a Castle!
Carisbrooke Castle! We are the only ones here at night and to go in and out we have to drive through the gatehouse and unlock the main gates.
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Well we are not really the only ones here.
Dear Readers! There are four
DONKEYS!
and they are living right next door.
(I’ll explain all about the apparently famous Carisbrooke donkeys in a later post).
We have been warned that they may bray a little overnight. They’ll have a tough time competing with my cough.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/carisbrooke-castle/
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