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Netguides Isle of Wight Guide - Holiday Guide providing details on hotels, guest houses, self-catering, holiday parks and camp sites plus events, attractions and a guide to the towns, villages and beaches with special sections covering cycling and walking on the Isle of Wight.

Ventnor Botanic Gardens - Displays a wide variety of temperate, sub-tropical and exotic plants, shrubs and trees from around the world.

Flamingo Park - Waterfowl and watergardens.

Chessell Pottery - Designer and manufacturers of fine English porcelain. Available to visit, including a coffee shop

Isle of Wight Garlic Festival, The - Information on the forthcoming traditional country fair and festival and details of the previous ones.

Robin Hill - Official site: Based in the heart of the Isle of Wight, UK, A great day out and fun for all ages.

Bonanzatravel - Independent travel agent. Fully bonded. Offers late availability flights to world cruises.

Island breaks - Isle of Wight tourism site

Alpha Group - Taxis - can also arrange transport to and from the major UK airports

Islandvisitor - A classified directory of Isle of Wight sites, including accommodation, places of interest and local history.

Holidays on the Isle of Wight, - Isle of Wight, the: Idillic walks and drives, plenty to keep the whole family entertained. Holiday in a rural location, but within easy reach of civilisation.

The Hospice Walk the Wight - Event held annually to raise money for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice. Describes the hospice and the event with details of other island walks.

Southern Vectis Omnibus Company - Bus service provider in the Isle of Wight, Southampton and South Hampshire and consultancy to travel operators

Carisbrooke Castle Museum - Includes the museum collections and important events in the history of the castle and the Isle of Wight.

Wightlink - Ferry operator offering the easiest and quickest ways of getting from the mainland to the Isle of Wight.

Isle of Wight Visitor's Guide - Information on attractions, accommodations, pubs, and sports and leisure activities.

Adgestone Vineyard - Describes its wines and history with a virtual tour and information about accommodation.

Ferguson Family Museum - Museum celebrating the life of Harry Ferguson, the tractor innovator in Freshwater.

Night Owl Holidays - Combines bed and breakfast in Ryde with trips in the Solent aboard a motor vessel. Describes its facilities and activities with photo gallery.

Fort Victoria Country Park Isle of Wight - Describes the attractions in the old fort which include aquarium, maritime heritage exhibition, planetarium and model railway.

Afton Park - Information about the gardens, plant nursery, apple orchard and facilities for visitors. Also includes details of gardening design services. Contact details.

Isle of Wight Breaks - Guide to family holidays, day trips and short breaks on the Isle of Wight.

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Mencken Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Travel and Tourism We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Travel and Tourism We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Travel and Tourism "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Travel and Tourism Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale Travel and Tourism "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Travel and Tourism "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. 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