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Isle Spy game for an Isle of Wight car journey
Isle of Wight roads are pretty bumpy, very swervy and a bit slow. As a result you may have to endure children (or spouses) sat in the back whinging that they feel sick even though you are only travelling four miles down the road.
To help pass the time, here's our Isle Spy game for Isle of Wight car journeys. It's not exactly complicated:
1. Print off this page or the printer friendly PDF version which fits on two pages.
2. Tick them off as you see them on the roads around the Isle of Wight
3. If you spot 10 you get a bronze medal, 12 for silver or all 15 for gold. Don’t come to us asking for an actual medal, it’s just to distract the children…although feel free to leave a comment on our Facebook page declaring your brilliance.
To help pass the time, here's our Isle Spy game for Isle of Wight car journeys. It's not exactly complicated:
1. Print off this page or the printer friendly PDF version which fits on two pages.
2. Tick them off as you see them on the roads around the Isle of Wight
3. If you spot 10 you get a bronze medal, 12 for silver or all 15 for gold. Don’t come to us asking for an actual medal, it’s just to distract the children…although feel free to leave a comment on our Facebook page declaring your brilliance.
1. Get a wave from a passing ferry
As you cross the Solent head onto the top deck and wave frantically at other Wightlink and Red Funnel ferries as they pass. Unless the other passengers are miserable because they are going home, they will wave back.
Award yourself a bonus point if you hear a car alarm going off on the ferry, as that is another regular occurrence. |
2. ‘Woah! Red squirrels’ sign
3. Isle of Wight personalised number plate
4. An orange VW campervan
5. The only dual carriageway
6. An open top bus
7. The Freshwater dinosaur sign
8. The UK’s oldest phonebox
Outside the fishmongers in Bembridge High Street is the UK’s oldest working phonebox. Award yourself a point if you can spot it.
Read about our attempt to call from the UK's oldest phonebox |
9. Kitesurfers falling over
10. Ridiculously steep roads that require first gear
Around the South Wight (Ventnor, St Lawrence etc.) are a series of roads that are so steep that you’ll have no choice but to stick the car in first gear and rev like there’s no tomorrow.
If you've got an automatic I guess you can have a point for a sign which says 'low gear now'. |
11. The rear end of a tractor
12. The rear end of a lycra-clad cyclist
Once you've overtaken the tractor (see #11) you can be fairly confident there will be a cyclist up ahead, wiggling their bottom frantically as they climb a hill. In September you will see flocks of cyclists taking part in the Island's annual cycling festival. Please give them a wide berth, they really are lovely people and they aren't destroying the planet like you and me.
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13. Click it or ticket signs
14. Ramblers looking at a map
Walkers seem to spend most of the day looking at maps (often in the rain), even if they are walking the Isle of Wight Coastal Path which generally doesn't require much navigation, besides walking as close to the cliff as possible without falling off.
Give yourself a point if you see ramblers looking at a map. |
15. The great big multicoloured cone/koan
Is it a wonderful piece of contemporary art that brightens the lives of hospital patients and visitors, or is it a great big piece of junk which cost tens of thousands of pounds of public money and stopped spinning soon after it was first installed?
Make your own mind up, but award yourself a point if you see Liliane Lijn's 'Land Sea Light Koan' outside St Mary's Hospital in Newport. I quite like it. |