I spent the day exploring Portsmouth with Liana and Philip. We started off in the discount mall section but with a little prodding from me they admitted that Portsmouth had an old town that I might be interested in seeing. Portsmouth suffered heavy bombardments during WWII because of its status as headquarters of the Royal Navy. Much of the city was rebuilt in Nondescript Style. Interestingly, while there was much information about what buildings and sections of the city were destroyed by the German bombardments there was no information about what German cities suffered English bombardment.
We had lunch in a traditional pub close to the Catholic cathedral. Afterwards, we explored the cathedral, a very strange building that looked a little like a mosque with minerets. We saw a facsimile of the marriage register recording the marriage between Charles II and Catherine of Braganza which took place in Portsmouth. One of his many mistresses, Louise Renée de Penancoet de Kérouaille was made Duchess of Portsmouth in 1673.
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