After running around like crazy visiting a new place every day, my friend and I decided to take Thursday off. But on Friday, we picked right back up again.

On Friday, we went to Southsea, which is located right by Portsmouth. Once there, we visited the D-Day Museum. I thought the museum was particularly fascinating in that I got to see how D-Day was viewed from the British perspective. In my American history courses, D-Day was always treated as purely an American by design, implementation, and success. At the museum, the focus was much more on the collaboration of all the Allied countries and how that collaboration allowed for the success of the mission.

After the museum, my friend and I made our way down to Southsea Castle. On the way there, we met a very friendly rubbish bin.

Built by King Henry VIII, this castle was much less glamorous than the other castles I had been too. Since it’s closed for the winter, we couldn’t go inside, but exploring it outside was good enough for me. It was incredibly windy and there were quite a few moments when I though for sure I was going to topple over. Nonetheless, I did get some amazing pictures of the skyline before my friend and I were pelted with rain. Once the rain passed, my friend and I walked over to Portsmouth for some food before heading home.

On the last day of our adventure week, my friend and I ended up back in…that’s right…Portsmouth. We originally went back to visit the birthplace of Charles Dickens, but, upon our arrival there, we found out that it was closed. So, we went back to the city centre of Portsmouth, grabbed a late lunch, then went to sit in the (what I could call) town square for a bit. There, we watched some rugby on the giant screen in the square. 

With nothing really left to do, we went back to uni. And with that, my week off had ended.

The past two weeks, I’ve been getting back into the swing of my classes and have actually begun working on my final assignments. Let’s just say I’ll probably be spending a lot of my evenings in the library from here on out.

Cheers,

Emily