Isle of Wight

We are on the Isle of Wight now, with only one more leg of the journey to go. It has been a wonderful but exhausting experience, especially for Deb who is fading fast, and only just getting through each day.
She will no doubt take a while to recover from the punishment her back has gone through these weeks away from home.
The bus tour really knocked her about, and we both caught colds which have hung on and are really difficult to shake. I got a perforated ear drum out of mine, and that has made it difficult as the fluid has been leaking constantly from my ear, and drips all over the pillows and my clothes so I am constantly dabbing at the ear – not allowed to put anything in to stop it unfortunately, but I have started taking antibiotics as a precaution to any infection getting in. Not to mention the deafness in that ear !!!
The Isle of Wight is beautiful – we had a wonderful day today, travelled by bus out to a place called Alum Bay where there is a fantastic cliff formation and rock formations called The Needles, we took a little boat ride out to see the cliffs and rocks up close – the colour of the cliffs is amazing – reds, yellows, ochre, mauve – many different shades of these colours. Anyway I have taken lots of photos and video and will try to post them when I get better internet access.
The bus ride out and back was quite hair raising – the little lanes are very narrow and the bus seemed to fly along at quite a fast pace – we have purchased a 7 day pass for ₤20.00 as that is cheaper than buying tickets for every journey, and we will be here for 4 days to use the tickets.
The guest house we are staying at is really nice and the woman who runs it Avril has the most amazing photo display and poster display in the breakfast room, of the Isle of Wight Rock Festivals from 1960s and 1970’s – she said it was an amazing event but had to be abandoned after the 1970 one when there were 750,000 people at the concert – the Island couldn’t cope with the numbers and ran out of food and water etc. Anyway I am going to see if she will let me take photos of the stuff on the walls as it is fantastic. The names of the artists at that 1970 concert included Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and many others that you would know.
They have started having concerts again on the Island, but the number of tickets being sold have been strictly reduced and policed so as not to have the same problem again.
Tomorrow we are going to try to do some family history research and hopefully will be able to fill some of the gaps I have in my research. Deb and I went to the Archives Centre in Truro while in Cornwall and managed to find a few more bits of info relating to my family which was great.
The weather on the Isle of Wight is a bit warmer than what we have been experiencing – thank goodness as we are getting sick of being cold all the time – finding somewhere to do the laundry is also problematic – but we usually can manage the undies – the heavier stuff is more difficult. Just as well we are on the move all the time so that each new place we go to the people haven’t seen us in the clothes that we are wearing all the time.