I was born on the island and lots of my family still live there so I come over quite a lot.
We used to have a few regular IOW people come to out Portmsouth Club GTI meets, I know how expensive the ferry is so for the summer monthes they used to come on foot and I collected them from the cat. A few have now moved off teh Island.
I think there is about 5 people that meet up other there now and again and I know someone very usefull who deals with loads of vw parts, don't know if you have come accross him he is called Addie?