Isle of Wight

A day off work and a celebration of a year (together) meant a holiday was in order, so down to the Isle of Wight we went.. (It's down the bottom of England and takes about 3 hours to get there from London). Seems the Island is the place to retire (there were a lot of retirees about)- so a very relaxing and slow weekend was in order!

Putt Putt Mania

Although I was aiming for sunshine since I was headed for beaches, of course being England there was no such thing so other activities aside from beach lazing had to be found. A novelty for me (still) is the seaside pier, and so we headed there. A pier tends to be crammed full of arcade games (think timezone on stilts) and then at the end of the pier is some carnival rides. It was on Sandown pier we discovered a new arcade game, I have seen them before but never played them. It's the game where you drop a coin into the machine and then it pushes other coins down into the slot for you to collect, supposedly. The one we used took 2p coins, and had prizes as well as coins. Soon that strange thing, I think it's called a gambling addiction, took over. Its only 2p we said, but of course who carries 2p coins? So we had to change money to get the 2p coins. At the end of the weekend we had spent about £40 between us, but we had about 20 very cheap toys as prizes! Hurray.

Sandown

Aside from gamble we did do other things, went for a walk from one beach to another, but when we got to the second beach guess what it had? Yes a pier. Just up the road from us was an old Roman Villa that had been found in the 1900s and still had a lot of the floor mosaics in tact.

As the picture above proves, we also played putt putt golf on a cool little putt putt course that was themed around a jungle. We tied.