grandad kit

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Dear “Tom”

Two very unusual railways

I am you other grandfather, the one you have never met. You are three years old, and although I have never met you, I love you dearly and always will. You are my flesh and blood, and always will be. We will meet one day, I am sure. I am writing this daily "blog" to you to make up for the fact that I can't speak to you right now. I hope that one day you will be able to read this.

We love going on trains, and I bet you do too. Well, today we've been on two very unusual railways. What's unusual about them? They both run along piers, that's what! Piers are like bridges that go out intio the sea, but are only connected with the land at one end. You can walk along them, most of them have a lot of fun and games on them, and quite a number have landing stages at the far end where you can get on a boat and go for a boat trip across the sea.

Some piers are quite long, so they sometines have a special railway that you can travel on to get from one end to the other. The first pier Grandad went on has a little train with a tiny engine pulling it. But it's a lot of fun, rading on the raileay along the pier, looking out over the water and back to the land, seeing the ships and the waves and the birds. That was good enough, but the next one was even better.

This particular pier has a much bigger train, one that carries on across part of the island just like a normal train. In fact, it is a normal train - it's an Underground Train, just like you have in London. This train used to run along the Northern Line, and now it's had a "transfer" to the Isle of Wight. So if you come on a boat, you can get off the boat at the end of the pier and get on this Underground train, except that instaed of going underground it not only goes overground, it goes along the top of the pier to take you to the land end of the pier where there is a station to get on and off the train.

We're just satying one night at this hotel, but it's very nice. We have a balcony overlookin g the sea (and another pier!) and it couldn'r be better really. If you were here, there's plenty of sandy beaches for you to play on, as well as roundabouts, dodgems and other things to enjoy. I've got several post cards and I'm thinking of sending one to your Mam so she can read it to you.

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann