Finally found some time to relax I hope. Our trip to Sweden fell through so we are staying in the UK. Ron and I had planned to split up after the 2 weeks so we are doing his own thing and I'm doing mine. Have gone back to London and might do some London touristy things tomorrow then hope to sneak down to Wales for a day or two to catch up with the Welsh relatives if fits in with their plans.
Interesting day yesterday heading to the Isle Of Wight. The day went quite well until we got to the ferry and paid the fare. £103 for 2 adults and a car !!!!!!!!!!! To say we were gobsmacked was an understatement. If we hadn't promised to meet so many people we wouldn't have bothered. Horrible place to drive is the IOW, all narrow lanes and 30 mph speed limits and horrible traffic lights that don't change for ages and let about three cars and a heap of daylight through each light change. Then had trouble finding the hotel, we were thinking about having a whip round to buy the town we stayed in some house numbers. Lucky the speedway meeting saved the day, it was a hard fought battle with IOW emerging victorious over Kings Lynn but not before a decent old scrap. As a bonus I met more lovely BSF members Leigh, Foldsey, Sandie, W vs H, London Witch, Laura and Ruckeroo and probably a few more I forgot.
Got up this morning to come back to London and had a look round the Naval set up at Portsmouth. Very impressive and we felt we would have liked a whole day there to see it all properly rather than just the 2 hours we could spare. The Victory (Nelsons flagship at the Battle Of Trafalgar) was very spectacular indeed. Headed back from Portsmouth on the A3 and ran into mother and father of all traffic jams near Guildford. Tried to divert and got even further away from where we wanted so backtracked and then found a diversion that worked and ended up getting the car back to Avis with about 15 minutes to spare.
Caught the tube to London and here I am. Might try an Indian feed soon and then fall into bed for 8 hours uninterrupted shut eye. Don't care when I get up so no alarm to be set !!
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