The Iron Heart Forum Triangle of Terror Type III Trucker Tour 2018 - Updates thread
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Friday night I had a party at my flat, so yesterday was spent entirely on the sofa recovering. I needed some fresh air today, so went for a walk around the sea front this afternoon.
Portsmouths answer to Brighton pier, Clarence pier which bizarrely is not actually a pier.. It used to be home to a very very shit London eye replica, but it was recently decommissioned (read: someone pointed out how dangerous it was to have that sort of structure on a beach that gets winds of up to 100mph in a storm)
A view over the Solent, in the background you can see two of the forts in the solent which are part of the Palmerston Forts. One of them is now a luxury hotel and another (out of shot) is a slightly less luxury hotel.
Portsmouth is home to the last passenger carrying hovercraft in the world:
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The Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Southsea Castle, built in the 1500s by Henry VIII as part of the Device programme, it now houses a brewery and champagne parties in the summer months.
One of the biggest tourist pulls for the town
The view looking back at Gosport from Eastney, the south-eastern most point of Portsea island
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And the soundtrack to the walk:
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I spy good art Hollywood and what looks like whipcord [emoji102]
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(read: someone pointed out how dangerous it was to have that sort of structure on a beach that gets winds of up to 100mph in a storm)
Interesting that this wasn't brought up in the planning and/or construction. It seems like a relevant piece of information.
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I spy good art Hollywood and what looks like whipcord [emoji102]
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Alex, is Southsea skatepark still there? it was/is just back from the seafront, many a happy afternoon spent there in my youth…
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It is yes, I often go and sit on the common just by the skate park in the summer with a BBQ @organisys
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Thanks @Giles
