Day 3 - Portsmouth

Strictly speaking we're up to Day 6 or 7 but after a few days stopover in London we're back on the adventure trail today. An early morning start got me to Warterloo station at 11am - an hour early for my midday train to Portsmouth. I'd booked my trip through Megabus at a bargain 6 squids - 24 squids less than what it would have cost me if I bought it on the day. No ticket required all I needed was my booking number which I was a bit dubious about until I saw the lady with the clipboard and the queue of other people with booking numbers in hand.

Only an hour and a half from London, Portsmouth is a bustling harbour town where from many of the ships to Australia departed. I'm hoping to check out some of the maritime museums while here and their historic dockyards.

I arrived and checked into the Victoria Court B&B - nice little B&B who only give me til 8.30am for the breakfast. I was glad to see that they had captured some nasty things in the bathroom and locked them away in a glass jar.


I decided to head off for a walk down to the Gun Wharf and get the lie of the land. On the way I pass by the Portsmouth City Museum and figured I had time to drop in and take a look.


There were several exhibitions on - one on Arthur Conan Doyle, Portsmouth living through the ages and their main exhibition was Alien Invasion which had original costumes and masks from Dr Who, Star Wars, Aliens and even Mars Attacks plus other Sci Fi classics.

From there I checked out Gun Wharf Quays which is an outlet centre, restaurants and entertainment redevelopment on the water. I figured it would be best to leave the Historic Dockyards to another day so walked along the seafront watching various ships, hovercraft and tugs go past, imagining how it would have felt to be departing these shores for the final time on the way to Australia.

Sun was setting as I walked by the Portsmouth Castle so took the photo opportunity before heading back to my room for a nice cup of tea.