Last Day on the Isle

Well it's been exactly a week since this event actually happened, but thought I'd blog about it anyway. On our last day on the Isle of White we started off a little earlier after our finally breakfast at the place we were staying. It was looking like we were going to have good weather for the day as well. We checked out and decided to drive towards Newport to explore some attraction in the middle of the Isle. I had picked up a leaflet about a lavender farm so we headed over to Isle of White Lavender. We got there shortly after it had open, so it was rather quiet. It also wasn't a lot of lavender in season, so a lot of the plants were just green. We had a little walk around and saw the distillery where the extract the oils. Then walked in the garden area and saw many different types of lavender. We then went to the tea room for a drink. There were lots of interesting looking cakes and scones made with lavender, but we were still rather full from breakfast, so we didn't partake. I think we just beat the rush as left the tea room rather full and as we headed back to our car there was several more cars pulling into the car park.

We then headed to Carisbrooke Castle. as English Heritage member we got in free. We only had a couple of hour before our booked place on the ferry back to the main land. So we had a very quick walk around and managed to get lots of photos of different elements of the Castle. Luckily we also bought a guide book, so we can read about what we saw later. We managed to get on the time as at least seven bus tours of which most were school children. We enjoyed a nice walk around and the sun was shining although it was more of a quick run though the place. Will defiantly have to go back another time to have a more detailed look.

We left the castle about 12:30 to make a quick rush up to East Cows to catch the ferry. We made it with about 15 minutes to spare, so decided to stop by the channel (sea) side and grab a quick bite. We found a little outdoor cafe to have a coffee and a nibble and watch all the sail boats, ferries, and seed boats go by. The coffee was so hot though that we didn't really have time to finish it all before we were off and heading for our appointment with the ferry. So we said good-bye to the Isle of White and to the end of our all to short holiday. Hope you've enjoyed my short record of our time there.