Back now from our holiday on the Isle of Wight. The laptop did have internet access using my mobile ‘phone for the connection but I forgot the (different) USB lead to connect the laptop and camera! Which is why I didn’t do a posting from the island because I wanted to include a picture or two. Here’s the first picture, Bembridge Beach, taken about 11:00 am, temperature around 21C yet hardly a soul in sight – this is why I love the Isle of Wight.

Busier, but with superb soft sand is the eastern end of Ryde beach where there’s even a free car park!

Here’s something bus related.

We went to the Garlic Festival on Saturday. It may be called a garlic festival but it’s more like a county show with lots of varied exhibitions, displays and stands. This is the back end of a bus being used to sign a petition against the IoW parliamentary constituency being split up! Here’s a video of Titan the robot who we all thought was brilliant.

Some of the arena entertainment was a bit amateurish but somehow that made it all the more entertaining, it gave the festival a ‘homely’ feel.

On Monday we went to the Ventnor Botanic Garden which is somewhere I wanted to go but didn’t expect the kids to enjoy much. Got that one wrong! They thoroughly enjoyed it. I only took one photo! Here it is, a leaf!

We also had a day out at Osborne House which the kids didn’t enjoy that much.

There is one other place worth a mention, The Four Seasons Inn at Wroxall. We’d yet to find a pub during our last 3 holidays on the island where the food was anything other than bought in and reheated mass catering food. Regardless of what they may advertise, in general, pub food on the island isn’t good. But this time we came across The Four Seasons! A real pub atmosphere, a greeting the moment you walked in the door and decent food which really was made and cooked on the premises. Reasonable prices too.

And this was home for the 8 days.