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Laxey Wheel<\/a>Hopefully Anna will add here perspective on our holiday to the isle of Man, and over the coming days I shall be adding some details of each day, but for now here is the overview.<\/p>\n

We are all back safe and sound, although I wouldn’t say rested… As usual when on holiday with a 2 year old, we feel as though we need a holiday to recover, especially as the ferry crossing home was so rough! Mind you, if we had sat around resting all holiday then we wouldn’t have done much and there’s little point in that.<\/p>\n

I did lots of driving, but we managed the whole trip on one tank of fuel (just). I did lots of windsurfing. There was wind every day and I got out every day but one. Sunday was really windy with gusts to 48 knots and I even attempted a forward loop (first one outside of Borth for me!). I didn’t go windsurfing on Monday but that was probably the day with the best conditions, sunny and a decent 30 knot wind all day. I got out on the water every other day though.<\/p>\n

We did some geocaching, but not loads. I guess we need to plan a little more carefully next time and hopefully once Morgan decide he can use his legs rather than be carried all over the place this will get easier. morgan did enjoy the caches when we found them though, but we stuck with relatively easy ones.<\/p>\n

We also did some touristy things too. Morgan loved the Laxey Wheel and had been looking forward to seeing it ever since he saw it on the TV before we went on holiday. We also visited the House of Mannanan, Cregneash, the Arboreum, various playgrounds and Morgan went on the steam train.<\/p>\n

Relatives were visited and the weather was on the whole kind to us (except on the journey home). More on each day soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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