Cowes

Cowes is a town that has never quite recovered from being told, once, that it was the yachting capital of the world. It has spent every summer since standing on the pontoon in deck shoes waiting for the compliment to be repeated. The rest of the year it is a post-war Solent town with a chain ferry, a hardware shop and a coffee place that named itself after the wrong postcode, and it is honestly better company that way.