Property News · January 27, 2017

Let’s move to Newport, Isle of Wight: ‘Its quaint alleys hide jewels’


There’s plenty to discover, with a vibrant arts centre, an exciting new restaurant and eccentric attractionsWhat’s going for it? There are ups and downs to living on a small island. The ups? You have to really want to live on one, so spots like the Isle of Wight attract the intrepid and the eccentric. Like Queen Victoria, who came here to escape the hordes so she could play “normal life” at Osborne, her suburban house on steroids. The apparently ordinary on Wight is rarely that. Take its capital, Newport. On the face of it, this is a humdrum town of Prezzos and Carphone Warehouses, where the height of civic excitement is the opening this year of the new Asda. But its quaint alleys hide jewels like Robert Thompson’s new restaurant, the fabulous Quay arts centre (how many galleries hold kids events by Rob da Bank?) and the Isle of Wight Postal Museum, a collection of paraphernalia accumulated by one Wight eccentric, including “the infamous Rhyl station bracket box”. Be still, my beating heart.The case against Problems peculiar to islands, such as the cost and effort to get there, impact on local economics and services. See Newport’s loss of Bestival to Dorset this year, though the Isle of Wight festival still reigns. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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