Islands · South East England
Isle of Wight weekend
The Needles, Osborne House, and Britain's dinosaur coast.
The Isle of Wight is just 23 miles by 13, accessible by 40-minute ferry from Portsmouth or Southampton. A weekend covers Osborne House (Queen Victoria's seaside retreat), Carisbrooke Castle (where Charles I was imprisoned), the Needles chalk stacks at the western tip, and the Wight Coast Path's Tennyson Down stretch.
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