Saturday, 12 November 2011

The Isle of Man - Thursday 10th – Saturday 12th November, 2011

On Thursday, we drove to Manchester Airport to catch a short flight in the evening to the Isle of Man flying on a FlyBe 78 seater Bomabrdier Q400 Turbo Prop aeroplane. The flight only took about half an hour and we were met by J at the airport, known as Ronaldsway Airport and, in Manx, Purt Aer Vannin.
J and her husband are old friends of Karen's and moved to live at Peel on the Isle of Man earlier this year. We were staying at J's lovely house in Peel very near the sea-front.
Karen had never been on the Island before but I had been twice before during the famous motorcycle TT Races in 1984 and 1985.
On Friday the weather didn't look promising with quite a lot of cloud and J took us on a drive around the Northern part of the island and a walk around Peel Castle which was very close to J's house.
On Saturday J's husband joined us for a drive in the Southern half of the island stopping off at a Glen Maye with a walk passing a waterfall and leading to the beach. We then continued to the Southern tip of the Island and stopped at the café opposite the small island called the Calf at Man where we had something to eat while watching seals and seabirds on the rocks outside.
Afterwards walked to the nearby stone circle called Mull (or Meayll) Circle of at sunset overlooking the village of Port Erin.
After a short while back at their house, J dropped us off at the airport to catch a flight in the evening back to Manchester and then about an hour and 10 minutes later we were back home.













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