We left Skinners Cottage in very good time with the Mazda packed to the gunnels for our trip to Northern Spain and back via the western part of France. Sadly, once again, no room left for the curlers or the ball gowns!
Beautiful weather as we drove to Portsmouth and very hot as we waited in the queque to board the Brittany Ferries vessel, Pont Aven. Definitely lots of signs of the silver dollar as numerous other people, who were obviously much older than us, had the same idea and I lost count of the open top sports cars and vintage cars that boarded.
We had great views of Portsmouth dockyard as we left at about 18:00 and HMS Victory, HMS Warrior and the new Mary Rose museum were prominent.
Very busy on board but once we had sailed for a short while the crowds dispersed somewhat and there were plenty of places to sit relatively quietly.
What was quite extraordinary was that after only a few minutes of leaving Portsmouth we left the brilliant sunshine and entered a very dense fog bank that lasted well into the channel. Fog horns blasted away but no sign of other vessels or indeed on the Isle of Wight so we retreated inside for dinner and an early night.
Beautiful weather as we drove to Portsmouth and very hot as we waited in the queque to board the Brittany Ferries vessel, Pont Aven. Definitely lots of signs of the silver dollar as numerous other people, who were obviously much older than us, had the same idea and I lost count of the open top sports cars and vintage cars that boarded.
We had great views of Portsmouth dockyard as we left at about 18:00 and HMS Victory, HMS Warrior and the new Mary Rose museum were prominent.
Very busy on board but once we had sailed for a short while the crowds dispersed somewhat and there were plenty of places to sit relatively quietly.
What was quite extraordinary was that after only a few minutes of leaving Portsmouth we left the brilliant sunshine and entered a very dense fog bank that lasted well into the channel. Fog horns blasted away but no sign of other vessels or indeed on the Isle of Wight so we retreated inside for dinner and an early night.
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