Newport; Friday, 27 June, 2014

Having finished work at lunchtime I headed over to the station and caught the train down to Portsmouth, where I picked up the disappointing Hover bus (A bus linking to the hovercraft terminal rather than an actual hover-bus) link to the Hover terminal in Southsea.

A very bumpy, but quick, 10 minutes later we landed at Ryde hover port and I walked the short distance to the bus station.

By now it was heading towards the evening rush hour (if the Isle of Wight can be said to have such a thing), so the bus took some time to get into Newport. I disembarked a couple of stops before the end near the hotel and wandered down to the reception to check-in.

After checking in and dropping my stuff off in my room I wandered on into town to have a look around, before hopping on a bus up to the northern port town of Cowes to have a look around.

A bit of a wander round Cowes and I found myself at the floating bridge or chain ferry. I took this over to East Cowes and there picked up a different bus back in towards Newport, that stopped at the same stop near the hotel as the bus from Ryde had earlier.

I wandered back down to the hotel and had a very pleasant dinner in the onsite restaurant before turning in for an early night.