Well that was weird.
Off the back of the old ski lift down to Alum bay, they've created one of those tourist monstrosities with a few shit fairground rides, a sub-motorway service station 'restaurant' with possibly the shittest food I've ever seen at an astronomical price, massive sweetshop with a steady flow of weeble people wobbling in and then wobbling out 5 minutes later clutching bags and bags of sugar in various forms.
It was called 'The Needles landmark attraction', and yet I saw almost none of them actually go down to the Needles battery from where one can actually see the...err...Needles. possibly because it involved over an hour of walking to get there and back as no cars are allowed.
The actually headland, the old and new batteries, are National Trust owned and run, and we had a fabulous time looking around the old rocket testing site and then around the older victorian fort. We even had a cream tea up there. Jolly nice.
Kids a bit knackered out now as we also had an hours walk along the beach at Compton. Now off out to dinner, probably in Shanklin.
