i like the landscape in south england – the hilly landscape right besides the coast & the sea!

our really(!) small house near sandown:

behind the house there is an idle peace of land – we called it our “nettle paradise”. stinging nettles in abundance, and also a bit of chickweed. it is only a few metres to the coast path, a few minutes to walk to the beach. every day we made a walk along the coast path, most days ending at the beach, enjoying the sun, playing with sand, water, stones, eating fresh algae …

on the afternoons, we made excursions … played miniature golf, visited “horse country” in binstead: stables, ponies to ride, piglets & donkeys & a small museum.

a military history museum in cowes with old cars & tanks. shopping at tesco’s – a big supermarket, also offering a fairly wide range of organic fruit and vegetables. the quay arts cafe in newport where we found a free wi-fi hot spot …

the isle of wight is small, only 27 miles maximum width. it is hilly & the streets are narrow & winding so one better does not drive too fast. this was my first time driving on the left … required a bit more concentration the first two days but then it was really easy-peasy. thanks to lisa (my navigation system) … she was a great relief! & i love the roundabouts they have there … many! always offering the chance to turn around

we are back in hamburg for some days now … actually i intended to blog our journey while we were on the way but unfortunately we did not have internet connection most of the time. so here are some impressions of our journey for you:

as usual we took lots of food with us: 10kg oranges, 5kg avocados, papayas, bananas, apples, sunflower-seeds, dates …. and one bag of clothes we had to put our sleeping bags etc between the seats

on saturday we continued our trip – started at 7am, to oostend (belgium), the ferry to ramsgate, went on to portsmouth, another ferry brought us to fishbourne on the isle of wight where we arrived at about 11pm.

to be continued …