Trip to Portsmouth and South sea

On the day before we went to Portsmouth, I and my roomies all decided to go out for dinner and on the way back home, we were discussing about some banking terminology, this led us to talk about lending money eventually giving way to a discussion on superstition. It was a 3.5 hours discussion, I and one of my roomie argued on the topic saying a person cannot question everything to accept or reject, but he can only do it within his/her reach ( within his scope). but other roomie argued saying there is nothing such as scope and we cant just ignore our ancestors belief without knowing why they followed it.Most funniest part is the end of the discussion, we all realised it was 12 in the night and we had to get up at around 5 in the morning to go to Portsmouth thats where our journey begins.

You guessed it right, I was the last to wake up in the morning. We were all supposed to start from house by 6:15 as we had to reach the YMCA hostel by 7:45, luck was in our favor; though we had to run for it. We reached the hostel by 7:00 and all of our stomach's were singing rhymes with hunger. There was a supermarket nearby which took care of our breakfast (by the way it was sandwich and rice custard). At last bus started at 8:15 from the YMCA hostel. Its a 2.5 hours journey between London and Portsmouth.

HMS Warrior

Though most part of our journey was on sleep, here and there we did see few nice scenic places on the way. It was 11:30 by the time we reached Portsmouth or Pompey is its widely called. Weather was colder than we expected and I had to pull out my sweater and wear it. Unlike the previous one this trip wasn't informative, we decided to start with the famous dock yard in Portsmouth heading towards one of the biggest warship's built in 19th century. After a long discussion we purchased a group ticket and walked towards HMS warrior.


By the way for those who are wondering what HMS means its Her Majesty's Ship. Further historic details on HMS Warrior can be got by clicking on the link. As usual all my friends started with their camera, even before we could enjoy the grand ship.As soon as I entered the ship, first thing that came to my mind was the movie Pirates of Caribbean, and I started imagining myself as the captain of that ship Jack Sparrow.  By the time I came back to the real world,  my friends  had finished with their initial round of photographs.


One after the other, we went floor by floor we were amazed to see the amount of information that lay there for us to grasp, undoubtedly this was the best warship that I had seen ( though it was the only one that I had seen). In summary the ship was awesome. By this time all that we had eaten in the morning had got digested completely and was ready for the next course of action. Luckily organizers had prepared Paneer dish and Curd rice. Once our stomach was full, we wanted to rest a while, being conscious of time we rested in a queue for the dockyard boat trip. With a funny commentary on the boat we circled around the dock yard viewing the Spinnaker tower, HMS Victory, and many of the modern day warships, and also the passenger ships to Isle of wight and France too. This boat ride lasted for nearly an hour and was worth it.

HMS Victory

Next stop was HMS Victory tour, though this was older than the HMS warrior, we felt there were more people who were interested in viewing this ship due to its historical importance. For your information have provided the link. From there we went to a place called action station where 3 of us tried our hands on the tallest indoor climbing tower. Though we did not spend much of the time on other attractions, I felt these were modern age stuff and we can find it elsewhere too.

Action Station

Last it was the journey to south-sea which did have its ups and downs on my mood, but ended well with a calm pebble beach. Yes, we were the last to arrive back to the bus as a consequence we all had to sit with strangers. The first half of the journey back was an interesting talk on mythology with a roomie of mine which was short-lived. Second half of the journey was filled with surprise as I was involved in conversation with the stranger next to me, luckily the person was a she.

South Sea pebble beach

No doubt all our gang started teasing me as soon as we landed at the YMCA hostel and all the way back to home. Thus ended our Portsmouth and South-sea trip
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