See Where We Went, 24 May 2014 - Southampton to Portsmouth

This is the last of the "See Where we Went" series. All stories have now been published. For the full set - http://geoffmoore.blogspot.com.au/search/label/See%20Where%20We%20Went .
If only we had more time, to explore all these places! But we had a strict ship departure time, so we had to zoom along.

The morning of the 24th May 2014 we walked from our motel room down to the docks to see what was there. Several very large cruise ships - much larger than the one we would be sailing on - were in harbour.



So we went in close...





Then we left our motel and walked to the station in Southampton to catch a train to Portsmouth, not far away.









Arriving in Portsmouth we took a taxi straight to one of the very many Portsmouth ship termini where we waited to board our little cruise ship for the next eleven days' trip. We hadn't seen much of Portsmouth - or of Southampton, for that matter.







And we boarded our ship.



Here we go!



Our cabin. Wow!





And off we go!



Many other ships af all kinds in Portsmouth harbour












Leaving land ... smooth sailing it was, despite slightly stormy looking skies..



And around the Isle of Wight and off to the west we go.



Do view the rest of our trip, already published!
The End.

See Where We Went 23 May 2014 - Plymouth to Southampton via Weymouth

We travelled by plane, train and ship. But on this day, we took a bus ride to see what we could see.



Not us.








Is this food stop in the US? One would think so.


Green green everything is so green.












A short stop at Weymouth.












Our bus detoured away from the main highway for miles. Because of crawling traffic there.






Back onto the highway, heading into Southampton and our stop for the night.

See Where We Went 22 May 2014 - Tamar Valley and Calstock

We took the train from Plymouth to travel up the Tamar Valley and spend the day in Calstock, a small village in Cornwall. From Calstock, after a brilliant pub lunch, we went on a long, extremely steep, and very rainy walk along narrow roads, sure we were lost, to the next station up the line, which took us much longer than we thought it would and was definitely not "one mile away". We only just caught the last train back!

Jenny has family who came from Calstock, hence the interest.

As usual, this is only a very small selection of the many photographs I took that day.