Poole to Ryde

Walk to Poole Railway Station
Train Poole to Brockenhurst
Train Brockenhurst to Lymington Pier
Ferry Lymington Pier to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
Bus Yarmouth to Newport
Bus Newport to Ryde
Walk to Dorset Hotel B & B

This was just one of those transition days. It is a little complicated getting from Poole to Ryde on the Isle of Wight on public transport but all the connections worked really well. The bonus was the fact that the train ride  from Brockenhurs tto Lymington Pier was free as no one came to collect our fare,

The Isle of Wight is the largest and second-most populous island in England –  after Portsea Island which has most of the city of Portsmouth on it. Referred to as “The Island” by residents, the Isle of Wight has resorts that have been popular holiday destinations since Victorian times and even of Queen Victoria her royal self.

We are now settled into our B & B and sorting out what we might do in the next two days. We don’t know much about the island so we will just have to go out and explore and find out. We had thought of hiring bicycles but I think we have run out of energy so will use their pretty good hop on/hop off tourist buses instead.

This is a sort of holiday within a hoilday for us. Just chilling out and relaxing.

My apopologies to The Beatles for for misquoting the name of their song.