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Oh my goodness, that must've been an even worse realisation!
It most certainly was! I cringe, whenever I think about this!
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The Durbur room was amazing! I can see why they saved it as the last room on the tour. The beach looked so peaceful. I knew the Victorians were modest, but the bathing carriage was quite something.
The beach is beautiful and looks very relaxing. Love that you all got ice cream and sat taking in the view. Delightful! I bet that bus driver has lots of funny stories.
Everyone? Am I understanding that right? Everyone on that cruise that booked valet was affected by your change?
The change was the boarding time that we had no control over. Because of the outbreak of the Norovirus on the previous cruise, they were doing a deep clean and as a result, no-one could board until 2:00pm at the earlier. Unless people had planned to board after 2:00pm, everyone booking valet would be affected.
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The beach is beautiful and looks very relaxing. Love that you all got ice cream and sat taking in the view. Delightful! I bet that bus driver has lots of funny stories.
I bet he does too. He could probably tell those for hours on end!
Saturday 4 June – part eight: where can I find the donkeys?
Eventually, we were back into the countryside…
… and soon we were arriving at Carisbrooke Castle.
I was very disappointed when we entered to find that the donkeys wouldn’t be treading the boards until 2:30pm, as we’d just missed the most recent demonstration. Basically they walk round and round, showing visitors how water used to be brought up from the well. It’s something that’s been going on here for hundreds of years. I immediately asked where I could find the donkeys if they weren’t walking the walk and the guy found the donkey shelter for me on the map, much to Mark’s disgust…
As we headed through the gift shop, you could see donkeys were popular here…
We made our way up through the entrance, with Mark pointing out all the various ways they would’ve defended this place in years gone by. As he said, you had very little chance of actually getting in here, with all these various defence mechanisms in place.
We headed in to see the introductory film, which was very interesting, and highly entertaining as well, as it was narrated by a cartoon donkey, who was walking the walk. We learnt how King Charles I, who was defeated in the Civil War back in the 17th century, was imprisoned here and eventually killed, and how his daughter died here as well. It wasn’t planned, she was ill before she came here.
Later in the castle’s history, Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter Beatrice ended up owning the place, and really put her mark on it. One of the things she did was built this chapel as a memorial to King Charles I, and I think it’s nice to see he was finally remembered, albeit a few hundred years later.
It’s also home to the island’s war memorial, and there were a terrifying number of names in here. We were later to find out in the museum the reason for that. Apparently they had a garrison here, and a lot of local men joined up at the start of the First World War. In total, the island ended up losing something like 2,700 men in that war, which is just a terrifying number for a relatively small island.
We headed over to Princess Beatrice’s garden next, which was beautiful, and a lovely relaxing place to visit.
What a beautiful castle - and I know what you mean about war memorials. It is so scary how many names are listed on them.
I think you went to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific over the weekend, if I remember right from Facebook? I found the numbers there of headstones just horrifying.
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