We've just got back from a holiday spent touring the beautiful and sunny Isle of Wight, in the South of England, in an old VW Camper. Much fun was had with a few Spacey adventures thrown in too. This is the first in a series of postcards about them. Our VW Camper, Seaside, was hired from the superb Isle of Wight Campervan Holidays. Thunderbirds fans can even hire a pink van called Penelope modelled by yours truly below! [excuse the lame excuse for a Thunderbirds Parker stance!]
Our own trusty Seaside got us smoothly round the whole island and I can easilly say that, like a box of cornflakes, we'd forgotten how much fun camping is! The retro feel of the VW vans clearly tap into a wave of nostalgia for the 1950's and 60's. In fact just going to the seaside feels nostalgic as it was so much part of our childhood don't you think? One of our first trips was to the Needles Park next to Alum Bay, where you could fill a glass bottle with the different coloured sands from the cliffs in special shops, a nik-nak straight from a Sixties or Seventies mantlepeice!
The Needles Emporium sold nautical toys, which included this fab Ocean Adventure playset for £3.50, which includes cool cheap plastic copies of the Britains 2-man sub, Lone Star 007 - style frogmen and a rather spiffing classic speedboat rather like a T one! Even the header card is surprisingly attractive for a modern rack toy.
A quick browse online revealed this variation of the set with an orange trimmed- boat. There's also a a rather nifty second set that appears to contain a small landing craft and a shark cage! Yikes! - both pictured below.
The Needles Park also held a real and hidden treasure from the British space race, complete with an am actual connection to Project SWORD! More to follow in my next postcard from the Island.
Looks like you had a F.A.B time.
ReplyDeletedid you go on the chair lift though ? change of underpants time there!
ReplyDeleteI hate chair lifts or anything high! I'd have to jump off! So no Wote, no new shreddies required 'cos I'm chicken! Buk Burrrrk!
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