Train and tram rides today! On our ride, first on a tram then on a train, to the summit of Snaefell Mountain, we were able to see the Great Laxey Wheel (pictured at right).

The Great Laxey Wheel was built in 1854 to pump water from the Laxey mines. It is now the largest surviving water wheel of its kind in the world.

Our ride took us past meadows bordered in rock walls, fields spotted with colorful cows oddly shared with seagulls, past backyards of neighborhoods with Scandanavian style homes, past thickets reminding me very much of Northwest Washington. The heavy mist