{"id":14192,"date":"2025-07-19T14:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14192"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:16:30","slug":"laxey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14192","title":{"rendered":"Laxey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was busy in town last night, but we found seats at the bar in an Irish pub called O’Malley’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This morning we caught a bus to a town called Ramsay. Ramsay is up towards the northernmost tip of the island, and has a commercial port and harbour. Unfortunately the tide was out when we got there so the harbour was nothing but mud, added to which it was raining. No photos therefore. We caught the same bus back towards Douglas, and shortly afterwards the rain stopped, so we got off at a place called Laxey. Laxey was once a mining village and much of the old infrastructure has been restored, including a huge water wheel and a steam railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laxey is also a stop on the Manx Electric Railway. It opened in 1893, and still uses the original rolling stock. We jumped aboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The railway took us back to the outskirts of Douglas. It\u2019s slower than the bus, and less comfortable, but after all these years it\u2019s still a big hit with tourists. Now we need to get back to the city centre. There’s a horse tram service which runs along the prom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1 horse power tram got us almost back to our hotel. By now the sun was out so we treated ourselves to ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow we\u2019ll be flying back to Liverpool. We like the Isle of Man a lot. There are good hotels and great pubs and restaurants, public transport is excellent, and everywhere is clean and tidy. I’m sure we’ll be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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