Paradise Found in the UK Motorcycle Road Trip Around the Isle of Wight Part 1

Good morning and welcome back to the channel. You join us from a different location and that is Portsmouth on the south coast of England. The reason you join us here is because we're off on a mini road trip on the Bonneville to the Isle of Wight. This is our ferry and Monica and I left at 4.45 in the morning from south east London and it took two hours to get here. It's now about seven in the morning and just because it's summer Monica and I thought it's fine we'll wear summer gear. It's beautiful weather but of course we left at 4.45 in the morning and we spent two hours on the bike like that. Absolutely frozen the whole time. Completely unpleasant. I just hope we warm up. We've spent the past 10 minutes inside trying desperately to warm up because it wasn't borderline unpleasant it was seriously unpleasant but it was too late. We couldn't turn back otherwise from Mr Ferry. We've got 15 minutes until we start boarding. We are first in line and I really hope that when we actually get to the Isle of Wight it's going to be warm as well because otherwise we're just going to be going around on the bike like this for the next two days so I hope we're going to warm up but it's good vibes. There's nothing like getting on the ferry on a motorbike that sense of adventure and we're all set. We've got the panniers set up, quad lock set up on with the charger so we've got absolutely everything we need and I can't wait. We'll grab a coffee, we'll grab some food on the ferry but here we go start of the mini adventure. Wish you a safe and pleasant on the journey. We've got a lot of good happy family memories from when I was a child getting on a ferry packing up. I think we used to have a Passat estate. Packing up the Passat estate, four bikes on the roof, sleeping bags, everything and you go off camping in France or something. It's just something about getting on a ferry it's a real real adventure vibe and I've always loved it. There's nothing like it but interestingly with this one it's the first time ever. Put the bike on the ferry, get shown where to put it and usually you have these ratchet straps on either side and you have to strap the bike down really tight to the ferry to make sure it doesn't move around but this one they just said just park it over there and I said well where are the ratchet straps and like no no no just park it there. That's a first for me. A little bit of me thinks that the bike's just gonna just casually rolled off and smashed into the car that I've just parked next to so this will be interesting. Slightly unexplored you don't know what you're gonna find on the island and it looks beautiful. First stop, been riding for about 15 minutes and this is Ride on the north coast of Portsmouth or north coast of the Isle of Wight. You can see so clearly there that's Portsmouth. Just to give you a little perspective that's 45 minutes straight the way across. Monica and I were saying it would have been nicer if the ferry was longer actually it's such a beautiful crossing over there if it was an hour and a half that would be even better but just hugely impressed it looks absolutely beautiful. I mean we've caught on the best possible day but stunning. Fun fact makes sense to do it in front of the beach. 11 out of the Isle of Wight's 14 beaches are classed as excellent for water cleanliness. The other three are classed as very good so beautiful place to swim that really is impressive. Looks like this is the old golf clubhouse from 1882 to 1961 and now it's been turned into a home. Around the sea surrounding the island just here I can see three of them one right in front of Portsmouth there another one just to the right of it and the closest you'll probably be able to pick up all circular. Say that you're over 110 that guy just driven into the beach done a u-turn. Look at that and a quick bit of history this tower is the remains of St Helen's church built in 1220 800 years old it stopped being a church in 1703 and now it's just been left like that but that is 800 years old. Would you like to see James Bond's car? This was Roger Moore's I can't remember which one I'll get alongside it though. We are very lucky because the traffic warden just came up to us and said it's your lucky day because I was just about to ticket you. I found out the rules we're parked I guess technically on the pavement in a car park and you get an instant ticket but on the Isle of Wight you can park either in a car bay or they have motorcycle bays parked there for free you don't need to pay so we're very lucky. Monarch you'll agree are blown away by the Isle of Wight it's stunning every beach we've been to crystal clear water and so clean and if you're a Brit and you had a holiday planned in Croatia or Italy or Spain or somewhere and it's been cancelled don't worry come to the Isle of Wight I really mean it it is absolutely stunning and you will not regret it also we just wouldn't have considered it Monica and I like Brits don't often consider the Isle of Wight as a holiday destination and I'm not sure why because it really is absolutely beautiful. Monica said it looks like I'm recording an episode of a place in the sun but this is white sand and genuine turquoise water yeah it's amazing that's all I wanted to say this is actually England it's so stunning. Monica's just staying with the bike but everywhere you ride there are these little signs for paths so I had to pull over and walk up this one wow to give some perspective right ahead of us here with these white cliffs that should be if I'm right the far west of the island and the road which I'll just zoom into there the bend in the road there is an almost coastal road that should wind along the coast fairly soon after that we're following that all the way down to the west of the island and straight ahead of me all around here is an area of outstanding natural beauty on the map so we'll be driving straight through there I love these I need to try and test one of these this is a 2006 rocket 2.3 litre and it's absolutely immaculate I love it in the chrome nowadays the newer ones I think they're more blacked out but look so good with the chrome we've arrived at our airbnb I've just parked the bike down there we've emptied our stuff we're about to head off for a lunch but before we do I'll show you what we've got for the night all right so this is a kind of I don't know what you call it I think an annex on the side of a house is what you call it and you've got this shed here which is where we'll be sleeping courtyard area which is very nice table and chairs and just a nice outdoor space to enjoy a bit of the sun and through here everything for washing so washing machine a few little sprays and stuff but really just a nice place to keep all of the biking gear some plants and things there and through here is the living area so this is this is an airbnb so effectively it's someone's house and they've converted the part of their land into this little self-contained area which is set out very well so what we've got bed love it when they come with a tv a lot of them don't so that is brilliant bed tv little sofa here pull out table few glasses microwave kettle you've got everything that you need knives forks hob fridge loo there and it's actually got and we've checked fast wi-fi which is so good so we can just catch up with all of the emails tonight but this is it perfect little spot for the night about 10 minutes ago we rode past nice little italian restaurant or cafe called I think it's called piano so we'll get back on the bike ride over there and grab some lunch before they finish serving it and then I think we'll probably just chill out till about six o'clock and then get back on the bike maybe for what do you think sunset sunset ride or something sunset ride and maybe a nice meal somewhere maybe even a pub let's see how we feel so if you come to the Isle of Wight the piano highly highly recommend absolutely delicious place right opposite it in fact I'll flip the camera because there's something that I don't think I've seen before actually and that is a church with a thatched roof there are so many thatched well what there are a lot of in the Isle of Wight beautiful beaches buildings with thatched roofs and land rover defenders also a lot of nice motorbikes but look at this thatched roof church St Agnes what do I know about this here we go built in 1908 so 113 years old that is beautiful and they're wooden what do you call those in churches spire steeple maybe a spire beautiful wooden lovely stonework probably a bit rude to go in but that's the little entrance with wooden wooden roof we've just stopped in this stunning spot and we're facing directly west so the sun will set over that cliff edge paddle boarders and a few people actually have been trying to surf here but I don't think the waves are big enough to have much success but I'll give you some reference here by showing you on a map so this is the Isle of Wight here Portsmouth right there we landed right on the ferry in the far north bit here and we've done the whole left-hand side almost complete coastal road all the way around to here and it only took us from about nine in the morning to about one in the afternoon to get here with a huge amount of stops looking at beaches so you can go around the whole island no issue at all in a day although we've been a bit surprised at how much amazing stuff there is to see here so you could easily spend what do you think four nights here yeah no issue at all four nights here and really the quad lock's been essential for it so I'll just show you my setup so that's my quad lock push there and you turn it on so this is the quad lock wireless charger put the phone on like that and I use this everywhere so it's got the vibration dampener so you can move the phone around and I've off-roaded this all over Spain and Italy with no issue at all and it doesn't damage the internals of the phone moves all around the place charges wirelessly never have to worry about wiring and I would say it's one of the absolute single most important things especially for a day like today Monica's phone for example it doesn't have doesn't have the quad lock case the good thing about quad lock even if you've got an older bike like mine that doesn't have usb quad lock can well quad lock make a usb so basically battery to usb so this is a quad lock usb connects to the battery terminals and then they also do this plug here that leads to this wire that leads straight to the wireless charger but of course you can unplug that and then just put in a standard phone charger so we've actually been using this to charge Monica's phone because she doesn't have a quad lock case for her phone so actually this quad lock system's been charging both phones today sunset spot we were recommended this place by the lady who owns the airbnb and it is Totland beach so it's a more more shingly stony beach but the water is absolutely crystal clear and it's meant to be stunning for sunset so we've got a couple of beers and we'll just chill out that i read online i'm sure it's true this beach is cleaned daily that's why well they're all so clean but this one's actually cleaned daily and you can tell not one bit of went to buy a couple of lagers for the beach toast here's the change and it says planet saving lager so i wonder where that is brewed with surplus fresh bread malted barley and european hops so it's brewed with excess bread that was about to go to waste anyway so food production is the biggest contributor to climate change but one third of all food is wasted we're here to change that we brew our planet saving beer with surplus fresh bread all our profits go to charities fixing the food system never seen anything like how good is that amazing yeah okay but is it actually nice no it's a joke it's delicious actually it's really good really good and a few sunrise snacks before the sunset uh actually it's a good time to end now because we filmed so much red and it could turn into about a two-hour first day vlog thank you so much for watching please do give the video a like subscribe to the channel and also have you been to the isle of wight and can you recommend any other real beauty spots in the uk because this has blown my mind so much i actually didn't realize there'll be so well an island with so many beautiful areas in the uk so blowing my mind let me know in the comments if there are any other beauty spots you highly recommend i would appreciate all of them and we'll read all of them have a great day and i'll see you in the next one