Hello from Canada!
Will be spending most of August in UK travelling with a friend. We are landing in Edinburgh and spending a few days on Skye, then 2 weeks in Outer Hebrides before returning to Edinburgh. My friend will fly back to Canada the morning of the 17th and I have booked 4 nights in Shanklin on Isle of Wight to fossil hunting walks and explore. I am very excited as fossil hunting has been a bucket list item I mine for almost 50 years and I have been in contact to book private fossil walks. I have booked lovely accommodation, but where I am struggling is planning the train/ferry trip from Edinburgh to the Island. I am completely overwhelmed at trying to figure things out.
I want to leave early in the morning on August 17th. My friend has to be at the airport early and will drop me at the station before she returns our rental car. It looks like Waverly Station is where I would start my journey, is that correct?
I then need to head to the ferry terminal in Portsmouth?
And from there a ferry, and then a bus once on the island to Shanklin?
I will then be returning to London at the end of my stay in Shanklin to spend my last week before returning to Canada.
I would be so grateful for any assistance figuring this out.
Cheers!
Michelle