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Portsmouth Historic Dockyards
Today was all about Portsmouth and British traditions as we headed for the Historic Dockyards.
Our first port of call was a visit to the HMS Victory, Nelson’s flagship. It first set sail on the 7th May 1765 and in 1805 she played a pivotal role in Britain’s greatest naval victory when Vice-admiral Nelson defeated the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar.
In 1922, HMS Victory was placed in dry dock, permanently, where she began a new life as a museum and she now sees 400,000 visitors a year.
After lunch, we headed in to Action Stations. This was a place to climb and develop some naval skills. The climbing wall was scaled with ease by some students. It was wonderful to see just how confident certain people were as they climbed to the top, being encouraged by their friends.
Others particularly enjoyed the rotating wall. On this, they had to make sure that they kept their heads below a certain level otherwise the machine would stop, but they had to be quick at climbing otherwise they fell off! Next to this was a reflex target activity. Lights came on and they had to hit or kick the right block. They were kept very active!
Once we had exhausted the Dockyards, we headed to Gun Warf Quays and to the Cadbury’s shop!
We ended the day with some traditional fish and chips .A two minute from the dockyards is the Britannia fish and chip shop. We were very impressed with those who managed to clear their plates, as the child-meals were really rather large!
Tomorrow, we are off to Legoland.
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