Crossing Le Pond

Four days of holiday breezed by, faster than the cold winter chill. We are supposed to be in Spring now but it looks like the season has arrived earlier than the weather. It has been three full months since we visited New York and the Lees, and with the English channel soon becoming a history item, we thought it would be good to make one last hurrah across the waters.



The search for warmer sunshine took us to Isle of Wight (IOW), a small island (or so I thought) off Portsmouth. Two days I reckon would be good enough to rest the minds and bodies before the month-end hammering starts.



To get to IOW, we would have to drive down to Portsmouth, get the ferry across to IOW and then drive south towards Ventnor. IOW is very scenic and comes in many small, cute medieval villages. Being an island off the English Channel, seafood comes in abundance. We managed to exercise some restraint both in diet and shopping! We zipped around the island and it was not long before I ended up on the M3 towards London.