Blogs from Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 6

Tuesday 19 Feb 2008 We left Teddington excitedly at 7am to get to Victoria Coach station for our 9:30 coach to Portsmouth. We finally met Lundi and Nikki at Victoria and our journey began. After our 2 hour coach trip we were so excited to get to the ferry terminal, only to be told it was the terminal to Spain and France and we were the only people the bus had stopped for! oops:):) The very kind bus driver put all our things back onto the coach before taking us to the next terminal. Here we got 2 for 1 ferry tickets to Ryde - Ilse of Wight! As we got to Ryde Ferry Terminal the one and only train was leaving so we walked across the second longest pier in england (stopping and taking photos ... read more

The Isle of Wight Festival is a three day camping festival located funnily enough in the Isle of Wight. This was my first trip to IoW and we picked the highlight of the summer weather to spend it there. It was a tube / train / hovercraft / bus trip there which took about 3hours all up from home to campsite. The hovercraft was great. I'd never been on one before and it's quite freaky. It's not really that noisy and it was a smooth trip, right from the sandy shores of Portsmouth to Ryde on Isle of Wight. Have to admit though, I spent the whole trip humming 'I've got a ticket to Ryde' It was a fairly painless trip even though we were lugging a fair amount of luggage. There were 3 of us: ... read more

Church in Freeport on the Isle of Wight was wonderful—it was great to be in an actual ward instead of a branch. I didn’t feel like quite as much of an invader here since they have enough members to outnumber us a few times. Sacrament meeting is interesting: the first talk is a report on one of the ward member’s visit to Salt Lake to meet President Hinckley because her husband was in the Hyde Park ward during President Hinckley’s mission. It was interesting to hear an outsider’s perspective on my home town—kind of a reverse of what I’ve been feeling traveling among the British. The meeting continues with an emphasis on the importance of prophets, appropriate since in two weeks there’s going to be a regional conference for all England where he and Elder Eyring ... read more

Haven't done a travelblog for ages so a weekend down to the Isle of Wight will do for my next entry! The day we were due to leave started off a bit ominously. Mark, our friend we were travelling with, had arranged the caravan and ferry for the weekend. After Denise had gone off to pick up Mark I suddenly remembered I had forgotten to double check with the travel agent if we needed separate tickets for the ferry (all we had was confirmation in a letter). With some trepidation I phoned the agent who, to my horror, confirmed we did need tickets and they were sitting in her office in the Elephant and Castle (a journey of about an hour in the opposite direction)! Thinking quickly I put on a mock-angry tone and said this ... read more

I have never been to anything like the Isle of White Festival!!!! That is a true statement. From the moment we arrived on Thursday morning the action never stoped. We had the perfect weekend of Blue sky's, music and fun. I went down with two of my flat mates and some of their friends from Slough. The head line acts on friday night where Placibo and Prodigy, Saturday night was Foo fighters and Sunday went off with Richard Ashcroft then Coldplay. But all the inbetween bands where great to. There where big dance tent's to and heaps of rides to go on. It was just fantastic. I'm sorry I only managed to get four pictures attached before my camera ran out of battery. I'll get some more on tomorrow, but hpefully they give you a little ... read more