Portsmouth

Despite typically sub-par weather (Rain? Here?), we had a splendid day trip to Portsmouth, England's major naval port and dry dock - and actually England's only island city.

Most of Portsmouth's tourism relates to its naval history, and we visited:

• the HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar

• the remains of Henry VIII 's Mary Rose, raised from the seabed in 1982 and still undergoing preservation work to this day

• Naval museum

• the D-Day museum, home to the Overlord embroidery, a modern counterpart to the Bayeux tapestry
• Southsea Castle (well, we circumnavigated it anyway!)