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IoW Day9: Another Chilly Day on the island
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 12, 2009
Well, it was another chilly day on the island, but fine enough to risk a visit to the “Flamingo Park” an outside attraction I visited last year but warranted another look.
The park is located on the east side of the island in are Seaview area, it’s mainly a wildfowl sanctuary with a few mammals thrown in for good luck, check out the pictures; I think you’ll enjoy them.
I swear this guy was aiming at me from above;
IoW Day8: Happy Birthday
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 11, 2009
Well, it’s my Birthday today – and what do I get? Poor weather here on the island!
Not a lot happened; the last of the attractions I want to see are outside so I’m hoping the weather will improve before I leave.
I tried out a new application on my iPhone today, its a GPS tracker – ha-ha sort of a stalkers delight – check out my route today; you can even see when I took a wrong turn 
IoW Day7: Brrr, cold & wet
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 10, 2009
Good Friday? you must be joking; 9 degrees, grey and wet.
.. still got a nice view from the bed in the hotel though 
IoW Day6: Romans & Ryde
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 9, 2009
It was a cold, wet morning in Freshwater Bay; the sea was rough and angry, so I decided not to make any serious excursions to any outside attractions.
IoW Day5: Sandown Safari
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 8, 2009
It was Sandown’s turn to entertain me today;
The agenda included a trip along the pier and seafront, concluded with a visit to IW Zoo where ITV’s Tiger Island is filmed.
But first a couple of shots of the Bay, firstly around 9pm at night; and then the stormy morning shots about 7:30am.
IoW Day4: Animal adventure
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 7, 2009
Today spent a lot of the day in the middle of the island; Arreton, Amazon World (just above Branstone), and Godshill.
Arreton & Godshill were mainly places to see (cough) local craft shops & wares – Arreton Barns did have a small Shipwreck Museum and an interesting collection of slot machines that brought back some memories of when I was a kid; but nothing really to write home about.
IoW Day3: Out and about.. .
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 6, 2009
Last night I trawled through the tourist guides to see if I could plan my island hopping a bit more; fat chance! but at least I have a list of places I want to visit.
First trip on my list was back to Yarmouth to visit the Tourist Information Centre;
I picked up a tourist parking permit; so I don’t have to deal with the pay & display’s any more.. also just missed one of the many pheasants that live on the island – phew!
IoW Day2: Around the Island
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 5, 2009
Day started off quiet chilled; breakfast and a couple of tweets to the guys. Read the Sunday papers in the lounge until 11am then checked out the Life Boat in the bay.
IoW Day1: The holiday begins
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 4, 2009
Started my 10 day break on the Isle of Wight, a small island off the South coast of the UK.
I’ll be posting a journal every day with musings and pictures. I’ll be using Microsoft Live Writer to compose the posts off-line and my Samsung i70 and of course my iPhone for the image content, I expect you’ll be able to tell which photo came from which device.. haha
#followfriday 27th March – what an AWESOME bunch!
Posted by martin newham in Musings on March 27, 2009
It’s Friday again, and on Twitter that means its’s #followfriday!
It’s an ongoing tradition to recommend new people to follow, generally it’s done in Twitter itself, but you only get 140 characters which isn’t much – today I’ll be updating this post with all the poeple that so kindly recommended me.