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This ruined church gave us the creeps - especially since the cemetary was so visible, and it was Friday the 13th!
My first amusement park on a pier! So exciting
Sarah playing silly buggers at the pier's amusement park
Stones of rocks
Fortified walls on Portsmouth's pier - it used to be a cinqueport (a defensive port for British authorities)
A masthead depicting Lord Nelson - Britain's greatest naval hero... Look at the size of it compared to Sarah!
Spinnaker Tower dominates the Portsmouth horizon at 170m... it also stands out like dogs' balls as it is too modern for the decaying landscape...
Cute little fishing boats
Me in front of an adorably kitsch tugboat
My first real English fish n chips on the 'beach' - complete with mushy peas!
Sarah enjoying her cod n chips
A 'chippy' or fish and chip shop in Portsmouth - their fryers are enormous and can handle hundreds of orders at once!
HMS Victory rear view - such detail!
The surgeon's stash
Sleeping hammocks on one of the decks... the ship could house up to 850 men in these cramped quarters!
Leg irons used to discipline drunkards
Grenades (hollowed cannon balls filled with gunpowder) ready for battle
Sarah holding a smaller cannon ball - they came in a number of sizes ranging from these, to a little larger than our heads!
Lord Nelson's bed... How girly!
The cannon rooms - buckets had leather handles, and were used mainly to put out small fires with seawater
Pistols in a case - imagine having to reload one of these quickly when the enemy had landed on your ship? I reckon my hands would be trembling too much...
HMS Victory front view. The amazing mast-head and sail structure confounded us
Shenanigans in a sailor's outfit
Sarah pulling a very 'Popeye' face
Our first impressions of Portsmouth - a historical ship-cum-museum, rocky beach and overcast sky... full of history and promise