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Het eiland Man is geen deel van Groot-Brittannië of van de EU en grotendeels zelfonderhoudend - en daarmee een belastingparadijs. De visserij is één van de belangrijkste bronnen van inkomsten.
The Isle of Man is no part of Great Britain or the EU and mostle self-sustained - and therefore a low tax haven. Fishery is still one of the important sources of income.
"Thie Bretnagh" Welsh persons house. A house called Park Llewellyn, resting on the side of North Barrule .
Feb 2013
Naast de Isle of Man Steam railway en de Manx Electric Railway is er nog de Snaefell Mountain Railway. Ook zij rijden met stokoude trammetjes. Dit ritje is echter een aanrader. Hier worden wat shapen van het spoor gejaagd tijdens de klim langs de 'bergwand' omhoog.
Apart from the Isle of Man Steam railway and the Manx Electric Railway Man has the Snaefell Mountain Railway. They also run with very old tramcars, but the ride is very beautiful. Here are some sheep chased off the track on the climb uphill.
Port Soderick is a small hamlet to the south of Douglas, capital of the Isle of Man, once famed for its pleasure grounds and beach. In latter years there have been various attempts to rejuvenate the area, all of which have been unsuccessful to date. The beach area has its own small promenade and hotel (latterly named "The Anchor" but now closed and abandoned), a suspended walkway (now closed and deemed unsafe), former oyster beds, large building formerly housing an amusement arcade, paddling pool (long since filled in by shingle from the incoming tide, and access the nearby glen of the same name. These days the place is something of a ghost town, disturbed only by the occasional dog walker but it once had its own funicular railway linking the sea level resort with the Douglas Head Marine Drive Railway atop the cliffs above, the remnants of which can still be traced today.
Ellan Vannin - Isle of Man.
Looking across the Harbour to Bridge Street.
The harbour town of Castletown is dominated by the medieval Castle Rushen, one of the best preserved medieval castles in Europe and ancient home of the Kings and later Lords of Mann. Tynwald, the Manx Government, was based in Castle Rushen by the 1500s and Castletown was the Island's capital until Tynwald moved to Douglas during the 1860s and 1870s.
Het was niet helemaal duidelijk wat deze twee jongedames aan het doen waren, vermoedelijk iets met een vreemde rode jurk, maar het was zeker vermakelijk om te zien.
Not quite sure what these two young ladies were doing, it must have something to do with the strange red dress, but it surely was a pleasant sight.