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About Jane Hodson

Jane Hodson lives on the Isle of Man and is a registered tour guide with the Guild of Manx Registered Tour Guides. She arranges tours all over the island for small to large tours, and is a fully insured driver guide.

Destination Isle of Man

By |2017-09-07T14:26:18+00:00July 8th, 2016|Douglas Isle of Man|

In the Victorian era the Isle of Man became a popular destination up until the early 1960’s when people wanted to travel to foreign destinations on cheap flights looking for sunshine.

Currently we are have more interest in the island from travellers who are looking at heritage, history and a destination closer to the British Isles, […]

Wild Horses couldn’t drag me away from here (a story of the Horse Trams in the Isle of Man)

By |2017-09-07T14:26:18+00:00January 27th, 2016|Isle of Man Guided tours|

The Douglas horse tram service is the oldest horse drawn tramway in the world.It is unique in the northern hemisphere – the only other similar service being in Victor Harbour, South Australia. The service started life on August 7th, 1876 as the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway and was the inspiration of a retired civil engineer, Thomas […]

The Lusitania and the Wanderer

By |2017-09-07T14:26:18+00:00December 21st, 2015|Isle of Man Guided tours|

On Saturday I went to the Manx Museum to listen to a talk on the three ‘ships’ that were relevant to the first few minutes of the Lusitania’s sinking.

We all know about the sinking of the luxurious liner Lusitania in just eighteen minutes off the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland in 1915 by a […]

Vikings, Fjords and Crosses

By |2015-12-10T20:56:32+00:00December 10th, 2015|Isle of Man Guided tours|

November was an interesting time with a visit to Norway and a cruise around the coastline going far north to the Arctic Circle and beyond.

The visit made me more aware of the difficulties the people of Norway experience with day to day living and how much the people rely on the ferries and boats for […]

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