Took Alex to Portsmouth Harbour for the day - we had resuable tickets from the summer - it was lovely. Really cold, but not rainy, and not at all crowded - a nice change from the summer, when it was fairly packed. A lot of the small boats were stacked up for winter.
Here's a view of the HMS Warrior, a 19th century warship.
Flags flying...
Decorated for Christmas below decks!
Side on view of the wheels.
These buildings are the Royal Naval Museum - of course with a crane in the background - how could I resist?
Alex decided that I wasn't going to take his picture - at least, not from the front. Or maybe he was just cold!
A few pictures from inside the Mary Rose Museum - really nice as it wasn't crowded and you could really get close and see what was in the glass cases. These are various canon shot of different sizes.
And the dog skeleton found in the wreck - ship's dog!
Here's the ship having air of the right temp and humidity pumped through to dry it out properly.
We had a look through the museum, including the Nelson exhibit, which I'd not done before. There were very few people in there. Here, Alex is trying to figure out what something is by touch. I think it was a bosun's whistle.
Heading on board the Victory for our guided tour. Because it was off season, they were only doing tours, which was great - no extra cost, but you did have to book a time. The tour was very good - pitched just right with some interesting information but not too much.
Here's where Nelson fell when he was (fatally) shot.
View of the bow end of the Victory - with a crane, of course!
General view across the harbour. We looked into going up that cool tower, but decided it was more money than we wanted to spend on going up a tower. Maybe next time.
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