The view from our room in the morning.

Flowers growing on the wall outside the hotel.

Chie and the first course of her breakfast.

Me and some Marmite.

My vegetarian breakfast. They said this was going to be a Quorn sausage. It's obviously a Linda McCartney sausage, not a Quorn sausage.

Last view from our room before checking out.

Sea view from Ventnor.

Post box in Ventnor. I like the "Isle of Wight only" box.

The Isle of Wight.

Entrance to Osborne House.

Osborne House from the front.

Is this a copy of the boar in Florence?

After touring the interior, here's the gardens at the back of the house.

The grounds running down to the sea.

Queen Victoria's private beach.

Queen Victoria's bathing machine.

Chie in the walled garden.

Outside of the walled garden.

Now at Wooton, waiting for the Isle of Wight steam railway.

Initially bought a 3rd class ticket...

Some posters etc in Wooton station.

....then after a while upgraded to first class.

...and here's the train!

Our first class compartment for the first leg of the journey.

The engine changing ends.

Inside the first class compartment.

Peter Port in Guernsey, coincidentally we went there around this time last year.

Now at Havenstreet, where we got off to look around.

Haven Street station.

There was a Victorian event happening here.

Blowing off steam.

On the next train now, here's a slightly different first class compartment.

Passing through the woods.

...and the fields.

Getting off the train at Smallbrook Junction now.

Poster for Ross-on-Wye.

The little train that would take us back to Ryde Pier Head.

On Ryde Pier.

...and now back on the ferry.