Blog ≫ 2025 ≫ Super long weekend - Portchester Castle
We planned to make use of our English Heritage membership on this trip and had a lovely walk around (and up) Portchester Castle. I like it there, it's funny to think of the sleepy town where I was raised and went to school having a pretty impressive castle like this. We had parked quite a way up Castle Street, so good to walk past the old houses in the old part of Portchester.
We thought we'd get lunch in the cafe in the church in the castle, but it was a bit busy and they'd sold out of savour things I could eat. So onward, first to The Cormorant. A good pub I always forget about, but not very welcoming today. They had had two chefs not turn up so were struggling for food, so we headed off. We should try there again but it being unwelcoming today has put me off a bit.
We settled on Port Solent, I had an idea to go to Snow And Rock for a browse anyway, and once there settled on the Wethspoons. It's a good one, and the food was fine, and cheap. It's a good location in Port Solent there, not your run of the mill 'Spoons.
Next home, for a relax, and then a lovely Chinese takeaway with all the family later. Ordered too much food, and I did my best with it, but one of the nephews hoovered up the rest of the leftovers for later, so nothing wasted.
I stayed up late watching TV, making the most of my last day of the weekend not not drinking.
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