Trip
Details
It
was a long weekend, there were no plans chalked out in
advance, then one evening a week before the holiday, my
room mate Mahesh, gave a bright idea of visiting the Isle
of Wight, an island south of london.
Have a read below to have
an idea on reaching the place and roaming around.
 How
to Reach the Isle.
There are trains every half
hour from London Waterloo station, check out the site
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk
for details of the train and the fare.
Get the train to
Portsmouth, the journey is approx 1.30 hours.
Once you reach portsmouth,
the next thing is to travel to the Island, you can travel
to the island by Ferry or by overcraft.
As i havent gone in a
hovercraft, we took the hovercraft to Ryde, the hovercraft
ride was really awesome and amazing and i would suggest to
have a hovercraft ride, reaches Ryde in 10 minutes flat.
Get the hover rover ticket,
this will allow you for a full day travel in all transport
modes in the island except the steam railway.
 Places
of Interest in Ryde.
Once you reach Portsmouth
or Ryde, get some pamphlets lying around there to get a
feel of the place, dont worry all are free.
The major places to visit
are the Needles point, AlumBay and the Beaches of Sanddown,
there are a lot more places of interest, but if you are
just planning a 1 day trip, be sure you finish all these
places before stepping into any other, else you are going
to miss the sheer beauty of the nature at Needles.
 Going
around in Ryde.
Once you reach Ryde, get a
bus to AlumBay, one caveat here, get the shortest route to
the Alumbay, we made the mistake of taking a different
route and ended up wasting 1.5 hours in the bus itself and
all our faces goin Red...............
At last we reached Alumbay
by around 2.30Pm, from that point take the Number 42 bus
to the needles point, takes some 10 minutes to reach the
needles point, this is a very good view point with the
entire beauty of nature merging with the deep blue seas.
After trying to capture
everybit of the beauty in my camera, we returned with much
hesitation from the point.
Reached the Alumbay point
and had Veg lasagne for lunch.
After this we filled a
small plastic model of the island, i bought this for 3.9
pounds, with colourful sand, this is a speciality of this
place, there are some 7 to 10 different colored sands.
We then moved to the
Chairlift, and reached the shore of the Alumbay sea, this
ride was really amazing, from there we took a boat ride to
the Needles point light house, the deep blue seas were
awesome and the beauty of the seas has no words to
describe.
We did not find time to go
to Sandown beaches, just had a look form the Bus window,
but its a sure place to visit.
It was evening time and we
started our way back home, the trip was amazing and this
is a place to visit for sure.
 Travel
Information.
London Waterloo to
Portsmouth - 1.5 Hours (22£ Return).
Portsmouth to Ryde - 10Mins
by Hovercraft. (14£ Hover Rover full day ticket).
Ryde To Needles and Around
- 2 Hours.
If you are planning for a
single day trip, start early to cover all places.
Check out the
 fotos
section to find out more on the enchanting beauty of the
island.
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