Our friends left us last night still enthusing about our heritage railways. We decided to go for a tram ride ourselves as we always take them for granted. I planned to watch the races and then we would take the 15.10 from Douglas via Laxey to Snaefell. With the postponement of the races Snaefell was out of the question. "Laxey will do then" said Marie. "Oh no" I said. "we'll not get a seat on the return. Let's go as far as Dhoon Glen and have some tea and cake."
The 14.40 departed with a few empty seats - well all but two as we had the tram, including the trailer where we sat, to ourselves. After some refreshments and a walk through the wonderful new arboretum across the road we returned to Douglas - completely on our own once again as far as Laxey.
A few of the sights from a lovely day out are shown above. We didn't stop thinking about the suffering of the people injured in the terrible accident but we did feel much better for getting away.
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