{"id":860,"date":"2015-03-29T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2015-11-14T23:43:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T13:43:59","slug":"860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Places I could have lingered longer – The Isle of Wight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felt quite at home catching the car ferry across (though our guys are a lot more efficient at loading). Sailed quite close to the American aircraft carrier \u2018Theodore Roosevelt\u2019 which was interesting.

\"Aircraft
Aircraft carrier ‘Theodore Roosevelt’<\/figcaption><\/figure>Loved the Isle of Wight, which seems to be of an earlier time with its quaint villages and country lanes.
\"Thatched
Thatched cottage at the crossroads<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Church
Church Road in Shanklin<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Country
Country lane well sunk into the surrounding landscape<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"St.
St. Lawrence Old Church at Seven Sisters<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Church
Church with daffodils in the gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>Rather sorry we didn\u2019t stay a night here though we are a little early in the season for Osborne House (Queen Victoria\u2019s residence) and the rather magnificent Carisbrooke Castle.\"Carisbrooke <\/p>\n

We visited the Ventnor Botanic Gardens, which are located on south facing slopes and grow a wide variety of plants up to subtropical. Very well laid out and an interesting walk around.

\"Ventnor
Ventnor Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\"LyndalThe beaches are quite lovely. Could easily see me having a holiday here. (Ed:not sure about these \u201cbeaches\u201d Lindy saw \u2013 I must have been looking the other way for a split second!<\/em>)
\"Must
Must have been concentrating on his driving and missed these<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Appley
Appley Beach on the Isle of Wight<\/figcaption><\/figure>Had dinner in another pub. Ed is getting addicted to English pubs and diverts in to a pub every chance he gets to quaff another pint of English ale
\"Ed
Ed outside another pub<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Quiet
Quiet inlet near the ferry<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"A
A chilly return to the mainland<\/figcaption><\/figure>Next day was back to the dockyards to inspect the Victorian armored warship the Warrior. She and her sister ship The Black Prince patrolled the Channel and were so formidable and far ahead of everything else the French and Spanish had to offer that they never fired a shot. They were the ultimate deterrent.
\"HMS
HMS Warrior<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Warrior was equally as interesting as The Victory and her restoration story almost as epic a story as The Mary Rose. It is brilliantly done and fascinating how they all lived on board for years at a time. It is a mixture of the \u2018modern\u2019 and the traditional in weapons as in accommodation. I particularly liked the fact that they had bathrooms and hand cranked washing machines but still used a hole in the deck for the loo.\"Steering\"
\"Gun
Gun with moveable tracks<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Gun
Gun deck and crew quarters<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Guns
Guns at the ready<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"The
The Kitchen<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Boiler
Boiler rooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Officers
Officers dining room<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"And
And my favourite – the Laundry<\/figcaption><\/figure>On to River Cottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Felt quite at home catching the car ferry across (though our guys are a lot more efficient at loading). Sailed quite close to the American aircraft carrier \u2018Theodore Roosevelt\u2019 which was interesting.Loved the Isle of Wight, which seems to be of an earlier time with its quaint villages and country lanes. Rather sorry we didn\u2019t … Continue reading Places I could have lingered longer – The Isle of Wight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travellingb16s.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}