A CITY & VILLAGE TOURS NEARLY NEW DAYTRIP
PORTSMOUTH
REVISITED
Now is the time to visit Portsmouth. In this beautifully revamped day we start at an old fort above the city and enjoy a Portsmouth coach panorama and a short walk through Old Portsmouth to see the famous Hot Walls. After free time for lunch at Gunwharf Quays where you can opt to scale the Spinnaker Tower we visit to the Historic Royal Dockyard for a full and uninterrupted view of Henry VIII’s flag ship the Mary Rose following £5.4m of further restoration works at the museum.
Fort Nelson is one of five Palmerston Forts built on the summit of Portsdown Hill overlooking Portsmouth in the 1800s to defend the Dockyard from French attack. Now part of the Royal Armouries we begin our day here at 10.30am with time to buy morning refreshments before enjoying the breathtaking views that really help to put the strategic importance of Portsmouth in Royal Navy history into perspective. An entertaining and informative coach panorama with a local and expert Blue Badge guide will highlight many famous connections from Nelson and Kipling, to HG Wells and Charles Dickens.
We see Conan Doyle’s Southsea, the city centre and take a fascinating short stroll in handsome Old Portsmouth to gaze out to sea from the Hot Walls where sweethearts have shed tears for departing lovers for hundreds of years. We stop for free time for lunch at vibrant Gunwharf Quays on the harbour front where you can opt at individual cost to take a trip to the top of the Spinnaker Tower.
Henry VIII’s flagship has undergone 34 years of conservation since it was raised from the Solent in 1982. The latest and most important phase is now complete and the ship which sank in the Solent in 1545 is now visible from all nine galleries of this beautifully designed museum. This has been called Britain’s Pompeii -
Adults: £30 Seniors: £29
Available daily all year
Please note that full payment
is due 14 days out.
Add a fish & chips lunch with
a hot drink in Old Portsmouth
for £11pp.
18 miles
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