A postcard from the Isle of Wight, whose 'normalcy' has never been so intoxicating

A postcard from the Isle of Wight, whose 'normalcy' has never been so intoxicating
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Until I was nine, my family’s annual holiday was spent somewhere different every year. Then we went to the Isle of Wight – and after that, we never went anywhere else. 
There’s just something about the place. The fact you take a ferry across, perhaps, giving the feel of travelling overseas. Or the compact nature of it, the lack of motorways and vast cities. People joke that you must set your watch back 30 years on arrival, but it is the island that is laughing now, happily ensconced in Tier 1 and carrying on as close to a normal life as I’ve seen anywhere in months.

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