Portsmouth,a place to see on the south coast. (Portsmouth in General)

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Product:	Portsmouth in General
Date:	17/09/00 (129 review reads)
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Advantages: A must to visit for everyone.

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Portsmouth is a town on the south coast well known for many reasons.

There are the docks where you can get the P&O ferries to the continent like: ST.MALO, CAEN, CHERBOURG, LE-HAVRE, BILBAO and of course there is the other ferries over to the Isle of Wright and to Gosport aswell. You can take your car or go as footpassengers, the prices are quite reasonable aswell. They do special offers aswell like a three day cruise to Bilbao in Spain.

Then there is the Historic Dockyard, which is home to the H.M.S VICTORY and WARRIOR, and the Mary Rose. There is also the Royal Naval Museum, Warships by water and the Dockyard Apprentice you will have to visit this place to really understand what i am saying lol. Entry to the Historic Dockyard itself, and the shops and restaurant, is free. You need to buy a ticket to go into the attractions. There you can either buy an individual attraction ticket or a saver ticket including a group of the attractions. You can get here by following the brown tourist signs from the outsskirts of the city.

They have a good shopping area aswell all round a massive big indoor shopping centre called Peacocks, which has it own multi storey car park. There are many sign posted car parks in the area aswell. All the other known high street shops are within a main street next to the centre. They have a inside market like centre called The Tricorn centre which is up the top of the town. They have a outdoor market on Saturdays where sell things from vegetables to flowrs and many other things, which is located outside the tricorn centre and behind BritishHomeStore. All the main banks are all situated in this street and their is a Macdonalds and burgerking and wimpy here aswell as other restaurants here. Many music shops and jewellery shops and sports shops aswell just to name a few of the different shops.

The train station is situated at the bottom of this street so it is easily accessible to come and go from the shopping area
and other areas. The train station is called Portsmouth&Southsea and goes to the harbour, so you can catch the ferries to the continent and to the Isle of Wright and go to the Dockyard from here to see the famous boats. The trains go north to London Waterloo, and go east to Brighton and beyond. They go west also to Wales and Bournmouth and beyond, so it is a good place to get a train to most places.

There is a good bus service going to all the local towns and further on the big coaches, they all go to a place called The Hard, which is a good place to get many buses and coaches to other places, but also most stop in the main town for the shopping area. There is Fratton Park which is the homeground of Portsmouth F.C until they build the new one. Which you can get to by car , bus or a train at Fratton station which is the stop before the main one for portsmouth. Which is hany with all them out of town supporters , keeping them away from the shopping area.

Then there is Southsea where there is a beach(which is stoney). Many hotels are here aswell to cater for all pockets. There is a funfair here with many rides, and the Sealife Centre and the Hovercraft over to the Isle of Wright and the big swimming centre called The Pyramids.

There is the main M27 road just on the outskirts that go to Brighton one way and to Southampton and beyond the other way. From Suthampton you can get the A31 to bournmouth and beyond through the pictresque New Forest. Then A27 to Brighton and up to A3 up to London, and the M3 to Basingstoke and beyond. So as you can see Portsmouth has alot to offer to you and any tourist.

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