The Isle of Wight memories of a few days on holiday

 I was writing up about buying my deckchair on my Six on Saturday post, when the memories of our holiday on the Isle of Wight flashed into my head.  I just felt sure that I had posted about that soon after our visit as is my norm.  Obviously the memories of those few days are still vivid, but sadly on checking the pictures are few.  We had mixed feelings about the holiday and on the way back on the ferry a man next to us was hacking away and sneezing, and I myself came down with some virus.

Looking through the scant pictures, it is still worth nothing a few of things we got up to, and anything worth noting.  Over dinner in the garden last night Mr S and I discussed our holiday and as usual we came up some differing views, but also agreed on many.  I tend to remember only the good, he is programmed to remember the opposite, but he did agree on many of the positives.

Our Ferry from Lymington deposited us at Yarmouth, and our first visit was to Carisbrooke Castle.  Using our English Heritage cards gained us access, and we spent the rest of the day exploring and reading and viewing the rooms and understanding the history of the Castle.

Part of Carisbrooke Castle 

Pottery display Carisbrooke Castle

I can't quite recall but I have the feeling that for Shanklin and much of the Isle, September was regarded almost as 'out of season', and there was a tied feeling to places. Not all the restaurants were open, and those that were, were fully booked or required bookings for the casual diner.  Anyway, having got used to the procedure for future evenings we made sure we had bookings.  

We had booked a four day break at a hotel to include the ferry crossing, and had chosen a middling priced affair.  We stayed at the Bourne Hall Hotel in probably what was they lowest rated rooms, as looking at it now, there are some rather posh looking rooms.  Or maybe in the past year they have had a good make over.  At the time of visiting last year the gardens looked in need of a good weeding.  What was memorable was that there a Caterham group of over ten cars staying, so that each day on our return, we had to squeeze our conventional car is some distant corner of the car park.  They were real beautifies and each one had so many differences.