Perfect August Bank Holiday Trip | Hayling Island Adventure | UK Travels

I was getting the call of the ocean again due to the glorious long hot summer in England, so I decided to take a trip down to Portsmouth and Southsea, this time with a view to exploring Hayling island which is just across the Solent from Southsea

This entailed a very short ferry crossing along with my bicycle to the very picturesque Hayling island

It was a wonderful day out and glorious bank holiday weather conditions

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Hey guys, how you doing? We’re on a we got um it’s an August bank holiday Monday today and the weather’s looking fine as well. Um, I fancied a trip down to the to the south coast um again, but I I wasn’t sure where I was wanting to go and I did a little bit of research. Um, we’re going to go to Portsmouth and South Sea again, but but this time um I’ve got my uh I’ve got my bike with me again to go on the train. And um my plan is, you know, it’s it’s always um it’s always like subject to change, but my plan is to go uh from from Portsmouth and South Sea and cycle to a place called Hailing Island um in Hailing Island on the south coast. You know, it’s not far. It’s it’s very close to Portsmouth, but it’s got like long stretches of sandy beach as well. And to be honest with you, I I’m going to be um discovering uh discovering Hailing Island myself today cuz I don’t know it that well. So, but I’ve heard from other people it’s really nice. Got the trusty stew with me. So, yeah. Express. That’s the express. What a rush. Yeah. So, come with me. Uh come with me on this journey, guys. So, we’re going from Farra from Farra M. This is Farra main station to um actually the train goes straight through to Portsmouth and South Sea. I think it takes about an hour and a quarter, something like that. So, it’s not too long on the train. And I’ve got a little bit um a little bit of a late start today. So, let’s go. Hey guys. So, we’re just boarded the train on the way to uh on the way to Portsmouth and South Sea. But, we’re not really going to be cuz I did a film previously. If you guys watch watch me regularly, um you’ll remember I did a I did a film a while ago on Portsmouth and South Sea. So, we’re going to go to Hailing Island today because it’s got sandy beaches, whereas where South Seas’s Pebbley and that’s um take the bike go on a little bike ride to Aling Island. Come on. Wow. The next station is Botley. Any passengers wishing to leave the train at Botley, please make sure you’re in the front six coaches. It’s the front six coaches only for Botley. Listen, this this station is called Hedge End. Hedge End. It’s a very English sounding name, isn’t it? I think so. Yeah, we won’t mention the name Botley. This is a town called Pharaoh. It looks quite pretty actually with that um little marina there. I’m surprised. I thought the train I thought it would be busy actually, but it’s practically empty this train. Well, certainly this carriage that I’m in now, the coach I’m in. Maybe it’s maybe it’s because a lot of people have probably done all the traveling that they’re going to do to get, you know, on the bank holiday Monday. I don’t know. But it’s very quiet, which is great. No, I think I have the entire coach to myself. Glorious day though. We got a nice um August bank holiday Monday weather. This station we’re at now is um is called Fratton. Um and it’s where I believe they probably still do actually Portsmouth play their um play their football uh football matches. Portsouth FC uh or Pompy as they they call them. They call them Pompy because Portsmouth um is sort of like a um Pompy is a slang name for for Portsmouth. Yeah. Fatten is like one stop from uh from Portsmouth and South Sea. I think I think the club’s ground is called uh Flattton Park. Yeah, it’s been there. They’ve played their matches, football matches there for years. Going to get my trusty steed off the bike. Off the bike. Off the train. [Music] This is Portsmouth and South. This train is for HS Harour only Petersfield Godilford Woking and London Port. This train has 10 carriages some stations destination guys. Destination Portsouth and South Sea. Seven carriages. We’re heading off to uh zones 1 2 10 first class hailing island from here. What a glorious day. Wow. And cycle spaces. That wasn’t too shabby getting off there. My bike’s not going to stay here though. [Music] Hi guys. So we’re in uh this is heading towards South now from Portsmouth Town Center. Check out this. This is the Guilford uh Guilford. This is the Portsouth Guild Hall. It’s a It’s a pretty awesome building. Yeah. Um me and my son, we went to see um the band Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark here a few years ago. They they played here about three or four years ago. I met up with my son James who lives not too far away from South Sea actually uh not too far from Portsmouth. He lives in Southampton. In this building here we saw OMD. It’s a pretty nice square actually. It’s got um um it’s got um some nice charm to it. Some uh English charm. Check out this. Turn left onto Guild Hall Walk. Then turn right to stay on Guild Hall Walk. Apologies for my satnav going off. I’ve got it set up cuz I’m I’m cycling from uh Portsmouth to South Sea and then I’m going to find a route to um um to Hailing Island from there. [Music] Dear old Queen Vic, gold rest. [Music] So, I wanted to show you guys this because it’s pretty pretty nice, actually. Um, it’s in South Sea. We’re on the way on the way to the seafront. I’m getting sidetracked a little bit, but yeah, this little road’s called the Veil. And I thought I’m going to go down here cuz it looks nice. I think it’s pretty cool. It’s a nice sort of shady spot on a on a hot day on a not not a very hot day. A fairly a fairly hot day. Probably an average late August um summer’s day. I just really like it. It’s got like these little bendy with the brick walls. We’re like the old brick walls, you know. I guess it was just a little bit intuitive cuz um I didn’t know if it would I went off. I wasn’t my sat’s been playing up again. that Alexa, she always wants to take me the wrong way, you know, in the maps. I don’t know what that’s all about, but or the long way round, let’s say. So, instinct kicked in. Whether I’m right or not, I don’t know. But yeah, Anyway, it’s just quite a nice little quite a nice little road off the beaten path, you know. So, onwards we go. Onwards to the bridge. Well, no, South Sea Beach. And then uh from there I’m going to be um cycling to uh I probably picked the wrong time of day actually. It’s probably the hottest part of the day now, but it’s not that far to Hailing Island, I don’t think. So, okay guys, so we’re in uh we’re in South Sea proper now. This is like the seafront and that or just very close by. But look at this um amazing um the D-Day. They’re still um commemorating 80 years of D-Day. This here is um landing a landing craft tank was designed to land tanks and air crews or an enemy held beach. you can go on board and discover what lies at the top of the ramp as part of the um as part of your visit to the D-Day story, but we won’t do that today. But check this out. It’s like a monster. Let’s get in the shade because it’s so bright today. It’s wonderful sunlight, but it’s playing havoc with my filming. Look at this bad boy. That’s some beast right there. Yeah. Going back to uh you know the D-Day the D-Day story. What we’ll do is we’ll cross this road and you can get the full you get an idea of the the scale the scale of the beast. I just got a puncture. It’s a monster, isn’t it? That landing craft tank they call them. Yeah. Yeah. That would have assisted in the um in the D-Day landings, 1945, 44, whenever it was. Welcome guys to Premier Marina’s South Sea. Check out some of these boats in the marina. Fabulous, eh? I It’s a fine day, I should think, for going out into the open waters. Um, sea looks pretty calm. There’s a very sort of gentle breeze and that I don’t know about right out there when you get out to see into the channel but the so this is actually the Solen the Solen and then it becomes the English Channel. Yeah. So, we’re not actually too far away from Hailing Hailing Island now. Um, broke the back of the journey, but there’s still a little way to go and then cross the bridge. Just down the road here is the uh you can get the feries. You can get you can get a ferry across to um Halen Island. I think it’s about £10. I don’t know. Um just going on I’ll be just taking my bike, but I’m I’m not going to do that. better cuz you can get you can get um you can get there uh via bridge across cuz I remember from when my son uh my son got married on Hailing Island. Um no his reception I should say they got married in the church in Portsmouth but they had the reception um on Hailing Island. Um that would have been uh 2019 I think they got married. Yeah. And um so I don’t know Hailing Island that well at all. My friend, my friend Dave, he he often goes he goes with his wife and the kids and that to Hailing Island quite a lot, but I don’t, you know, the reason I’m coming here is cuz I want a sandy beach and not the pebbles and the shingle of the South Sea. Hi guys. So, I succumbed to it. I had to I got I had no choice really but to get the um the ferry across cuz I spoke to a guy who is a cyclist as well. I said, “I thought there was a bridge that you could go over.” And I said to him, “Where is it?” And he’s pointing and it’s like really at the other end of the harbor. He said, I said, “How long would it take me to cycle there?” And he said, well, he said, “It’s about 8 or 9 miles or something like that.” I’m like, “What?” So, I kind of had no choice but to get the ferry, but it’s it’s only £350. I thought it was going to be more than that. And I’m not the only cyclist, as you can see. So, the mission is still on today to get to Hailing Island’s sandy beaches. [Music] All the master And that’s the harbor master’s boat over there which is coming in. Langston Harbor. Muddy but magical. Don’t look very muddy now. There’s a lot of shingle and stuff there, but I’m assured there are sandy beaches here, so I’m still on my mission. Hey guys, so I just um I just cycled about uh from the um like the ferry. I don’t know if you call it a port. Yeah, the um harbor there um that comes across from uh from Portsmouth to Hailing Island. And um now uh you know it’s a place called Beachlands and I was expecting sand cuz it was they said there was sand here but it’s um it’s still rocky like a shingle beach which is uh for me it’s like it’s not happening. It’s like I just don’t like I just don’t like the u you know like when you’re walking on it on your feet. I don’t I don’t like that feeling. But it’s really beautiful. I mean look check it out. Actually, it’s funny. It reminds me a little bit of you when you see the buildings in the distance, which is obviously Portsmouth over there. Um, it reminds me of the Gold Coast in Australia without without the nice sandy beaches. Unfortunately, we don’t we don’t seem to have um on the south coast there are there’s Bournemouth. Um, there’s West Wittering Beach, which is near Chichester. We went there before. Do you remember on a film I did? Um, lovely long stretches of sandy beach. But, but Portsmouth, you know, well, this is South Portsouth and South Hailing Island. And I was speaking to a lady when I was having sat down having my cup of tea a couple of miles down the road. Um, and she said, “You do get the sandy beach, but we have to wait for the tide to go out.” So, it’s kind of like when the tide goes out, then it you get the sandy beach later on in the day. So, we’ll see. Yeah. But this is what I’ll show you what I mean about looking like the Gold Coast. Nice, mate. Yeah. So, I’m trying to get over it, guys. It’s shingle. It’s shingle beach. But but when I had my cup of tea about 2 milesi down the road near the near the ferry there’s sand there, the stretch of sand and it’s really it was really quite nice. Not a not an awful long long stretch, but there was like where the water the water came in and it was very shallow for the kids and everything and that is like like a little lagona there. It’s pretty it’s pretty cool. But but anyway, we’ll we’ll walk on the shingle. We’ll go for a walk along here before I cycle back, I think. It’s not so crowded. It’s not so crowded either. I was expecting it to be really really busy, but it was that stretch like a couple of miles down the road um where the cafe was. It’s very busy there along there. There’s a lot of people there, but uh cuz of the sand. I suppose there isn’t much sand here on Hading Island. Oh, look. Shall we build a sand castle? Here come back. Do you like Michelle? kid flying his kite over there. I saw saw it coming doubling down like that. That’s cool. I’m sure it’s great conditions for kite flying today. Yeah. Nice. They got good thermals for the kite flying today. Hard to keep it. My crazy zoom, man. The crazy zoom on this camera. It’s like I’ve got to get rid of this. Well, not get rid of it, but I’ve got I’ve got to get myself a proper vlogging camera. This is just lets me down every time. Every time when I try and zoom in, it’s jumpy. And you know, you may have experienced it when you’ve watched my films that when I zoom in, actually the sound cuts out, which is ridiculous, Samsung. But anyway, it is what it is. Reminds me of that um was it the Stardust Stardust song? Um the guy out of Da Punk. Music sounds better with you. And he’s flying the kite. The kids flying the kite. I’m sure it’s that. Oh, cool. Bananas. Oh, come down with a bit of a thump, but good stuff. Me and my shadow. Hey, guys. That’s old school, isn’t it? Oh, goodness me. But check this out. Oh, man. We’re coming back from uh um that nice beach that was turned out to be shingle and not um a sandy beach unfortunately. I’m still on Hailing Island. I’m cycling back to the ferry port. This is a um this is like a wetlands uh reserve place here. Very beautiful. We have had a glorious, glorious day today. It’s really so far it’s been like wall to wall sunshine. I should imagine the sunset’s going to be pretty spectacular as well. So, what I’m trying to do is I’m trying to find a way where I can go across the bridge. Um, and I figure there’s a path here. There is a path there. So, I’m going to explore a bit and see if I can get across uh get across the bridge and save the money on the uh for the ferry going back. I’ll have more cycling to do at the other end, but that’s all great. It’s all good. Yeah. So, I’m probably going to give up with that idea of finding the bridge cuz it’s still going to be it’s a long way round. It’s a it’s a long way around the island. these nice ladies here I was chatting to, they said it’s going to be yeah it’s going to be a few miles and then when I get across the bridge then it’s um it’s a bit of a it’s a bit of a cycle ride from there to um uh from there to uh uh Portsmouth. So I’m just going to get the ferry back. It’s cool. The last one back is 7:40. Look at this though. Oh my god. What a glorious day, man. The end of August. Oh, 25th. Is it 25th today? Anyway, whatever day it is. Yeah. 25th. 25th of August. Monday the 25th of August. The bank holiday Monday in England. It has been wall to-wall sunshine. It’s glorious. That was where I went to today, guys, on the bike. Beachlands. Beachlands. 2 milesi from here. We’re back at the um back at the ferry port now. [Music] Really happy. bike’s running away with me. We’re just boarding the uh boarding the ferry now, guys. sponsored by the ferry boat in Seven. [Music] We’re getting ready to rock and roll. The engine’s just sparked up. You’re running. It’s literally like a 5minute crossing I think. I couldn’t believe how quick it was coming. But um and three and 350 each way. Can’t really fault that. You can’t argue with it. Somebody told me earlier on today that it was a tenner. I’m like, “Oh, right.” Well, like one way, you didn’t know. But no, it’s all right. £7 return. [Music] So there’s Hailing Island off there in the distance. Get ready for the bump. No bump. That’s the boat. We just got off the pride of hailing, no less. I feel like I just want to sit here. Uh, watch the sun go down. You know, the sun’s still quite high in the sky, but wow, fabulous. Um, it’d be about another hour before the sun’s down. But we we have been blessed with this weather today. That’s for sure. No doubt about that. Glorious. back on the bike. Hey guys, how you doing? We’re back in South Sea now. So, I’ve just cycled from the uh from the ferry port there from Hailing Island. Check this dude out. Horatio Nelson, no less. Here served Horatio Nelson. You will tread his footsteps. Remember his glory. 21st of October 1805. We know what that was, don’t we? Battle of the Trafalga. Sun’s coming right down now on a glorious bank holiday uh Monday. Wow. Wall towall sunshine. I’m sure the sunset, if I could find somewhere to catch the sunset, it would be amazing. So you guys will recognize that it’s the world famous Spica Tower here in Pompy as the sun’s coming down. Wow, what a day. What a glorious day. Wall towall sunshine. I bet there’s a nice view from at the top of that spin tower of the sunset tonight. That’s how it is. Wow, Portsmouth’s got some pretty amazing buildings, the modern and the uh and the old actually. End of summer. Let’s [Music] go. Yeah. [Music] This is the figure head of the HMS Vernon. originates from the fourth HMS Vernon, a 50 foot frigot, a 50 gun frigate that saw action active service in home waters, the Americas in the East Indies between 1832 and 1848. On the 26th of April 1876, the Hulk of Vernon together with those of the former 26 gun steam frigate Ariadne and the light of Florence Nightingale were commissioned as HMS Vernon to become the home of the Royal Navy’s torpedo branch at Portsmouth independent of HMS Excellent. Yeah, I mean uh the naval dockyards here, the historical dockyards here at um in Portsouth. On the 1st of October 1923, HMS Vernon was established ashore at Portsmouth on the site that is now Gunwolf Keys, which is the name of this place actually. But where I’m at, where I’m at now, this is Gunwolf Keys. Dinosaur. Ah, one of the aisle of white fairies just going out. through there. But there’s a fair [Music] That sounds like two old aircraft. Like I don’t know, Spitfires or something like that. Maybe they’re old. Yes, it’s too high up for me to identify them, but we go to one’s jacket. Hey guys. So, as the sun’s going down over uh Portsmouth Harbor, I’m going to sign out now. Head back head back on the train. 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