2024 Isle of Wight

View from our hotel window: car park with Captur, Esplanade, bowling green, promenade, beach, Solent, Portsmouth. The 15:15 hovercraft sets off for Southsea.

A spot of warm weather, on the hotel patio.

The hovercraft at rest.

The Ryde Castle Hotel.

The Needles, on a soaking wet day

The Isle of Wight Steam Railway, Havenstreet station, on the same soaking wet day.

Mottistone Garden NT.

Compton beach.

Ryde pier, from the brand-new pedestrian pier, with one of the new trains coming back from the Pier station.

The three piers at Ryde. Left to right: road (1814), pedestrian (1864, originally as a tramway, rebuilt 2023), railway (1880).

Osborne House.

Looking back: Ryde from the end of the pier.

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