We found our way easily enough to Dinosaur Isle but the £6.20 for parking seemed steep. No wonder the car park seemed almost deserted! Happily the husband of another couple after the same Jurassic experience was kind enough to return to the car park and tell us for half of the parking ticket we get a refund inside Dinosaur Isle. There was also a couple with children entering the attraction, their young girl liked pressing buttons which was noisy. But what the buttons were there for.

Dinosaur Isle hadn't changed much in 18 years. Someone was busy outside touching up the paintwork which needed it. A cross between tableaux of dinosaurs and some informative displays. The history of the study of dinosaurs, the way personalities and politics have played into that, was as involving in some ways as the fossils and models.

Then off to Brading Roman Villa, we only just squeezed into the car park. Last time we came we were pursued by gangs of school children, this time there seemed to be a party of elderly folks who had used up most of the car parking spaces. One wished people would park better. The mosaics at Brading hint at a time long gone, a time we can barely understand. The villa must have seen so many stories unfold in it. Now the bare bones of it remain to be pondered over like the dinosaur bones are pondered.

We had bacon brie and cranberry sandwiches (Virginia on white, mine on brown toasted) at the cafe before moving on. The cafe didn't have stuffed dormouse which was a Roman delicacy apparently.

Our last act of tourism was to see the Lilliput Antique Doll & Toy Museum in Brading itself. Google Maps wanted us to do a 360 at a roundabout (which wasn't big enough to do 360s round) to reach the car park. Disgustingly the car park machine wanted physical coins rather than bitcoins or plastic!

Some of the dolls in the museum would have given me nightmares let alone little girls I thought. To some extent that would be age withering the dolls, but the doll designs seemed grotesque caricatures. There was a Mickey Mouse with teeth, distinctly odd but reflecting how that All American icon has changed over the years. Adult collectors could buy toys in the shop, there were labels saying those toys were not fit for children.

We had our evening meal (and good it was too) at the Royal China in Sandown. We had set meal B for two people, we normally go for set meals as they're better value and it saves worrying about what to order. I liked the decor at the Royal China, the lanterns the jade or pseudo-jade models in glass cabinets on the walls. I was glad to see the place was busy. We could have gone to the Dragon Pearl in Shanklin but I was put off by reviews I saw in Google Maps. Perhaps unfairly. More physical coins got used at the car park, I should have persevered with trying to pay electronically.