The Last Pier....

I have finally made it to Ramsey to Photograph Queens Pier, and not a second to soon either, it is being demolished as it has become to unsafe, £1.8M was ear marked to stabilised the Pier, but this was withdrawn this year as a cost cutting exercise. The Pier is owned by the Manx Government, so we lose yet another Pier from the British Isles. Most of the end of the Pier has gone now, the Pavillion is now non existent.
When we got there sea mist was covering it and we couldn't see more than 50 meters of it, I went back after a cup of coffee and the mist had lifted just enough for me to blip it. That is it, all 59 remaining piers done and dusted, now for my book.

Apart from Ramsey we also visited Laxey and Peel before ending up for a Cream Tea, near the Old Parliament Hill, called Tynwald Hill at St John's and is the traditional ancient meeting place of the Manx parliamentary assembly, dating back at least to the late first millennium AD, this could be even older than the Iceland Parliment.

All in all we had a great day out, tomorrow will be a free day so we intend to take the Electric Train to Laxey and then on to Snaefell Mountain Railway and up to the highest point.