Useful reminder but poor raggie

[Seahope]

Noticed a yacht stuck in the mud at a strange angle just outside Porto Solento tonight. Sorry too lazy to fetch phone to take a picture but I did feel sorry for the fellow. I guess he had been there for some time as I was there just an hour after low tide.

 

[Giblets]

Would this be the chap perhaps?

 

[Seahope]

Yes. I would have offered him a cold beer from the fridge but he was so far off the channel I would have run aground too.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Noticed a yacht stuck in the mud at a strange angle just outside Porto Solento tonight. Sorry too lazy to fetch phone to take a picture but I did feel sorry for the fellow. I guess he had been there for some time as I was there just an hour after low tide.

Where is Porto Solento?

 

[Giblets]

Where is Porto Solento?

NE corner of Portsmouth Harbour opposite Porchester Castle? Home of Sunsail Solento.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

I see, you give it a Mediterranean name to help you forget that it is an overcrowded, not value for money boating hell hole with soup coloured sea.

Does it work?

 

[Giblets]

I see, you give it a Mediterranean name to help you forget that it is an overcrowded, not value for money boating hell hole with soup coloured sea.

Does it work?

No.

 

[benjenbav]

I see, you give it a Mediterranean name to help you forget that it is an overcrowded, not value for money boating hell hole with soup coloured sea.

Does it work?

I think you missed "and next to a landfill site".

I quite like it, though.

Rather like on the local radio in Berks when Reading had lost a footballist contest to Bristol and they had a phone-in to find reasons why Reading was better than Bristol. The #1 reason: "It's not only separated from Wales by a narrow strip of brown water"

Pip, pip

 

[l'escargot]

I think you missed "and next to a landfill site"...

It's actually built on a landfill site - that's why there are all the methane vents hidden in the bushes. I remember taking rubbish out there in the early 70's - you could see a lot of the rubbish in the soil when they were extending the gym a few years ago. It is "next to" the motorway and the RN firefighting school.

 

[penfold]

Where is Porto Solento?

For full ersatz holiday tat piñata authenticity, should that not be spelt Puerto Solente?

 

[Seahope]

I see, you give it a Mediterranean name to help you forget that it is an overcrowded, not value for money boating hell hole with soup coloured sea.

Does it work?

The description: 'overcrowded, not value for money' applies to the South of England in general

Actually, with the weather we are having this summer it does feel very Mediterranean.

Having visited just a few ports now in the Solent, I think Port Solent gets rather a bad press. I find it a pleasant place to be with lots to do and plenty of choices as far as eating and drinking goes and if you didn't know it's history you wouldn't notice it was built on a land-fill site. There is history there as you pass a castle of Roman origins on the way in/out.

Perhaps you should come and see for yourself? Obviously, as implied you do have to follow the dog-leg channel with care.

Oh, I wasn't trying to imply that I was anywhere other than in the UK which is why I spelt it as I did and as other formites have in the past.

 

[ricky_s]

Having visited just a few ports now in the Solent, I think Port Solent gets rather a bad press. I find it a pleasant place to be with lots to do and plenty of choices as far as eating and drinking goes and if you didn't know it's history you wouldn't notice it was built on a land-fill site. There is history there as you pass a castle of Roman origins on the way in/out.

I've only been the once but I really liked it too. Lots of cheap bars and places to eat and no shops for SWMBO to spend in.

 

[kcrane]

The description: 'overcrowded, not value for money' applies to the South of England in general

Agreed

Actually, with the weather we are having this summer it does feel very Mediterranean.

Agreed

 

[Wiggo]

For full ersatz holiday tat piñata authenticity, should that not be spelt Puerto Solente?

Of course. Also remember that it's only a short cruise from Puerto Solente to Vaches on the Ile de Blanc (no need for passports, I think they must both be Schengen Group...)

 

[sarabande]

with due respecks....


Ile du Sud


(Wight means 'below' as in 'to the south of ')

yrs pednatically

 

[epervier]

well it made me smile

 

[Wiggo]

with due respecks....


Ile du Sud


(Wight means 'below' as in 'to the south of ')

yrs pednatically

with due respecks...

peDANtically...

 

[LittleShip]

I see, you give it a Mediterranean name to help you forget that it is an overcrowded, not value for money boating hell hole with soup coloured sea.

Does it work?

Major.... tut tut! .. behave yourself, these are nice people.

Tom

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Major.... tut tut! .. behave yourself, these are nice people.

Tom

They don't like it up 'em.

 

[Seahope]

They don't like it up 'em.

Lol!

I've always been told it is much better to give than receive