There are loads of things to do on the Isle of Wight with kids. The island lies just a few miles off the coast of Hampshire in southern England and is a motorway-free oasis. I visited the Isle of Wight one October half term with my husband and ten year-old son. We stayed at the island’s […]
Secret rocket testing site on the Isle of Wight
The last thing I expect to find when we visit the Isle of Wight is a secret rocket testing site. I wasn’t even aware that Britain had ever launched a space rocket. But we come across an exhibition in Newport called Chasing Sputnik and learn that rockets were indeed tested on the island during the […]
