We took a World War One and World War Two Battlefield tour with a company called Trafalgar. The bus tour began in London and would finish in Amsterdam after fourteen days. The tour followed some of the major routes of WW I and WW II. After touring London for two days and seeing some of the sites including the Imperial War Museum we headed to Portsmouth, England.

We enjoyed the two-hour drive to Portsmouth watching the scenery along the way.

We went to the ship building school and a dockyard area where ships were being repaired. We walked through the school looking at different aspects of ship building.

There were displays explaining aspects of ship building.  There was also some interactive activities. One activity was to crank a wheel and race your boat against other people to the finish line.

There was an area that had a rowing competition activity.

There was even a station where you could climb the mast of a ship. We decided to skip that activity.

After the Museum we took a short boat cruise around the marina which provided us with some great views of Portsmouth Harbor.

The views of the harbor from the boat cruise were very impressive.

On the cruise, we saw several warships docked in the harbor.

We came to the 558 feet high Spinnaker Tower located in the harbor.  The tower was built originally as a millennium project, however, ended up costing £36 million pounds,  £12 million pounds over budget. The tower was not completed until 2005 almost six years later than it was scheduled to be completed.

Portsmouth was an interesting city and was a very important part of WW II. We enjoyed our time there and saw some very interesting things.

“Ta ta and Cheerio”