{"id":39162,"date":"2023-04-18T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=39162"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:17:16","slug":"a-trip-to-the-isle-of-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-trip-to-the-isle-of-man-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to the Isle of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anna and I have just got back from a trip to the Isle of Man. Morgan didn&#8217;t come with us this time as he&#8217;s 18 years old and has better things to do &#8211; namely cat and house sitting and going to school! We went to visit Anna&#8217;s Mum, but did plenty of fun tourist activities too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had dinner on a steam train, watched dolphins, ran part of the coast path, spent a day on various trams and summited Snaefell. 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