Here’s what attracted us to the tour: 5th October 2024: Portsmouth Harbour then at Sea Portsmouth is a port city and naval base on England’s south coast, mostly spread across Portsea Island. It’s known for its maritime heritage and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The dockyard is home to the interactive National Museum of the Royal Navy,…

Monday 16th September 2019 The video’s that are contained here is the raw footage shot on Safari – no editing has taken place.  Feel free to go and view but bear this in mind; some of them are rather long and there are one or two that will not be included once the editing has…

Sunday 21st July – Final Preparations We generally plan to make it to Spain and will get there via a route that we have not taken before. We have headed to the South of France via Paris (centre route) or Rouen (left route) but not this one which is to the right of the other…

Visit to see Mum before getting the overnight ferry               Having taken the ferry Portsmouth to Caen we arrived at Saumur having read about it in an article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/pays-de-la-loire/saumur/articles/36-hours-in-saumur/amp/                                 At Chris and Susie’s…

Saturday 24th November England to India Picked up by Geordie from home we set off for Birmingham airport at 10:00. All seemed good until we encountered stationary traffic on the M42. We spent one hour in slow moving traffic due to a Dating.com event on at the N.E.C. We eventually got to the airport slip…

Friday 31st Here we go then, just about ready to set off. We had just said goodbye to cousin Nigel and his wife Jan who arrived the previous day. We left around 15:30, cruised along at 55m.p.h. and arrived in Portsmouth at around 18:30. Waived through we boarded pretty quickly to find ourselves 2nd in line…

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