19th August – Tuesday - Portsmouth cont…further

Bit of a lie in.

In the afternoon we took further advantage of our ‘All-Attractions’ ticket to visit the ‘Explosions’ museum in Gosport, a 20 minute walk from the marina.  Explosions depicts the history of munitions in the forces, their design, manufacture and distribution.  Gosport was selected to produce and store the munitions as it was across the water from the dockyard.  Near enough but not too near.

This museum more than any so far showed the horror of war.  How we have spent so much time, money and intelligence making devastating bombs in the name of peace.  If only we had used all the time and energy for good, what a different world we would live in. 

I do think we should remember previous wars and learn from them, but we are doing a very bad job of that at present.  Will we ever learn?

Again as part of the ticket, this was a very interesting, if saddening and sobering place to visit.