This trip started with me completing the full set of London airports. The flight from London City airport is strange as you take off from land recovered from the docks, the runway surrounded on both sides and at the end by water and then take off over the |
d01702 Saturday, 26 July, 2003 |
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Sunday, 27 July, 2003 Sunday, to work off the previous evenings Chinese involved going up the 2036 feet to the top of the islands only mountain Snaefell. |
Monday, 28 July, 2003 |
No time to do anything on the Island before catching the plane other than cow spotting. Like so many other places, the Isle of Man was having its own Cow Parade and across the whole of the island a large herd of concrete cows have been released. My favour d16401 |
A disarmingly smooth journey through the airport with the entire process from getting off the train to leaving the security area being done and dusted in under 10 minutes… |
d16402 Saturday, 30 June, 2012 |
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Sunday, 01 July, 2012 With another stunning breakfast inside me I headed out of the hotel and down to the train station to catch the first steam train of the day south towards Port Erin… |
Monday, 02 July, 2012 |
I only had part of the day to explore, so after checking out of the hotel I headed down to the centre of town and picked up the bus into Peel… d16405 |
A quick breakfast as I had to be at the airport early, and things weren’t looking great. It was still pretty foggy, but the sound of turbo-props starting up drifting through the fog from the airport implied that some flights were leaving… |
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