Travel Lodge Portsmouth

The Travel Lodge, Portsmouth provides you with a good place to start if choosing to head off on a driving holiday through Europe.  From this city, you will be able to get one of the many continental ferries that will take you to Spain and France. 

The city itself is steeped in maritime history and for many centuries was one of England's most important naval ports.  In fact, today it still has the world's oldest dry dock and it is here you can visit Admiral Lord Nelson's Flagship HMS Victory, which helped to defeat the Spanish. 

However, although it still has a Royal Naval dockyard and base here it has declined somewhat over the years.  In fact, it is becoming more well known for it being a commercial port providing both freight and passenger ferries to Europe.

Along with being an important naval port this is also, home to where one of England's most famous authors Charles Dickens was born.  It is here you can actually spend time exploring his childhood home and learning more about the life of this man. 

But for those of you who are far more interested in learning about the city's rich naval history a visit to the Historic Dockyard is a must.  Along with you being, able to view HMS Victory here there is also HMS Warrior the first iron-hulled battleship to be built back in 1860.  Plus there is also the chance to view the Mary Rose, King Henry VIII's favorite ship that sank of the Portsmouth coastline back in 1545.