Sunday and we have a leisurely start before we leave Auntie Betty and head for Portsmouth in pouring rain! We travel the highway into Portsmouth historical docks and wow the ships look amazing, and the drizzly rain just enhanced the atmosphere. We trawled over the steam ship The Warrior, and then scrambled and crouched through Nelson's The Victory, and stood on the very spot on the deck where Nelson was fatally shot - wow! ALL this history is mind boggling. I found a badge in the navy museum, so lucky. It was an amazing day.
Next day we are taking Auntie Betty to the seaside via a saxon town called Corfe and we saw the awesome ruins of Corfe Castle. This was unbelievable but we only have the photos on the camera and video, watch out for them when we get home. Again there are more of those fabulous cottages and cobble lanes, and quaint little shops. We had tea and scones at the foot of the castle ruins, and then it was those boring twisty roads through rolling hills ho hum!! Down to the coastal town of Weymouth bathed in glorious english sunshine, and this is where the olympic sailing trials and races happened. Sea rolling in flat, and the sandy shore soon changed into those famous pebbles, and yes there were plenty of Poms sunbaking and sitting in deck chairs!! We treated Auntie Betty (and us) to fish-n-chips for in the harbour town of Poole - huge leasure craft ships are built here, and it is a huge natural harbour full of all sizes and shapes of sea-craft. It was goodbye tonight from Ron and Jan and extra hugs all round xoxoxo
Photos are Thommo pointing to the steam ship HMS Warrior, english deck chairs on the beach at Weymouth, Royal hotel on the promenade Weymouth and me with dear Auntie Betty!!
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