The Isle of Man coast looking south from a hill just outside Peel

      

Dawn over the farms outside Peel

      

Watching the sun rise

      

Fire

      

The flowers on the hillside outside Knockaloe Beg Farm

      

Coastal footpath

      

Dawn over Knockaloe Beg farm

      

Dawn outside Peel

      

A 7am hike

      

The western Manx coast just before sunrise

      

Sheep! On a farm that has around 1000 sheep

      

Dawn outside Peel

      

A sheep's skull on a farm

      

A neuroscientist explaining which bit of the skull was used for what

      

Sheep's skull

      

The sleeping tow of Peel at 7am

      

Douglas Head Lighthouse

      

The rocks outside Douglas with a small concrete bunker

      

The Camera Obscura that projects images of the surrounding Douglas Bay (without the use of lens)

      

A Manx Electric Railway car with benches whose backrests can be manually rotated so the whole car doesn't have to be turned around at the last stop

      

Spring in Douglas

      

The Manx Electric Railway's open-air and closed carriages

      

Terraced housing in Douglas

      

Angler tending to the catch after pointing out a baby seal swimming near the pier

      

Fog over the Douglas lighthouse

      

At low tide you can walk a hundred metres from here before you reach the water

      

Unrealistically green Manx lawn

      

1943 litres

      

The port of Douglas

      

Beware! Horse trams! Douglas does actually have horse trams along its seaside promenade in summer.

      

The hunger strike over the prison's smoking ban was one of the biggest news story in the spring of 2008

      

Hutchinson Square

      

Kitch

      

Anglers by Douglas lighthouse

      

'Maximum penalty: f^ck you' - fighting the power on the Isle of Man

      

The Manx find it important to show they're not English; they even paint Britain's standard black litter bins blue to show how much this is so.

      

Douglas Bay at low tide with the Tower of Refuge, a shelter built for sailors who got shipwrecked on Canister Rock

      

One of the Manx Electric Railway's tramcars

      

Park in Douglas

      

Though they paint their litter bins blue, the post pillar boxes remain red unlike their brothers on similarly Crown-dependent Guernsey

      

The Steam Railway at Douglas station

      

Residential Douglas

      

Victorian terraces built during the period when Douglas became a popular seaside resort with the English

      

The three-legged Manx symbol is almost ubiquitous on the island

      

View over Douglas with the Sileau Ruy mountain in the background

      

The scenic Raad Ny Foillan (The Way of the Gull) coastal path leading out of Douglas

      

Stone wall along the coastal road near Douglas

      

Posh hillside villas overlooking Laxey Bay

      

Low tide

      

A walk along Laxey beach

      

This dog had no idea how to get rid of the tennis ball once it had got it in its mouth, so manual intervention was needed

      

It must be great to sail out in this weather

      

Open for hot and cold food

      

Perspective

      

Beachwalk

      

View from the pier in Laxey Bay

     

Terraced houses in Laxey

      

Manx Electric Railway

      

The wooden interior of the Manx Electric Railway

      

Give way to the tram

      

In the valley of the Laxey River

      

View along the Irish Sea coast from the Manx Electric Railway's open air tramcar

      

The Irish Sea from a MER car

      

The termini of the Manx Electric Railway and the Snaefell Mountain Railway (old-fashioned tramcars run on both routes)

      

Path running along Laxey River

      

The TT (Tourist Trophy) race is the main sports event of the island, which has no speed limit on many of its roads

      

Snaefell Wheel, a 15m diameter water wheel previously used for pumping water to help mining operations

      

The port of Castletown, the former capital of the island

      

In the port of Castletown

      

Now agriculture constitutes only 1% of the island's economy

      

Public footpath sign in Poyll Vaaish, with the Manx triskelion (meaning 'three-legged'), present on both the country's flag and coat-of-arms

      

Manx businessman

      

On the train

      

View from Marine Drive, a several mile long clifftop road just outside Douglas

      

A cobweb on one of the stones above the sheer drop to sea level

      

The gateway to the Marine Drive

      

Mist

      

Housing on top of the Douglas Head headland

      

That's a big drop

      

Admittedly not the best place to learn to drive

      

Old cowboy

      

View over Port Erin Bay from the promenade

      

Port Erin Bay

      

The path leading down from the summit of Snaefell, the highest mountain on the Isle of Man

      

Ghost tram

      

Surprise sheep

      

The 'stone' marking the summit of Snaefell. The view was spectacular.

      

The Snaefell Mountain Railway passing through a cloud

      

The mountainside of Snaefell

      

Ascending Snaefell

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