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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.

Midsummer Madness

By |2017-09-07T14:26:19+00:00July 6th, 2015|Isle of Man Guided tours|

The Isle of Man is full of mystery and mythology and past civilisations, and this past weekend brought some of those to mind as we celebrated Old Midsummers Eve in St John’s.  This was a time chosen for celebration of pagan rituals in ancient times and our island very cleverly used this day for the official closing of our parliament […]

‘And the Walls came tumbling down’

By |2013-10-01T14:08:49+00:00October 1st, 2013|Isle of Man Guided tours|

And so the walls that divided all the estates and changed Douglas, eventually disappeared but not without a certain amount of controversy.

The lands around Douglas were mainly farmlands and the sections that were the orignal farmlands were known as quarterlands.  Eventually when the town of Douglas started to spread, the lands were sold off as […]

Old Macdonald had a farm

By |2017-09-07T14:26:19+00:00September 24th, 2013|Isle of Man Guided tours|

This weekend was the annual Isle of Man Food Festival, held in the grounds of the Villa Marina and showcased some of the best of Manx produce, together with hourly demonstrations using local produce and local talent.   This year’s guest chefs were Henry and Albert Baker (the Fabulous Baker boys) who had everyone laughing at their antics. Henry […]

Welcome

By |2017-09-07T14:26:19+00:00September 15th, 2013|Isle of Man Guided tours|

Welcome to my first day of blogging about the Isle of Man.   I have set up this site to add snippets of daily life, social history and anything of interest that I can find that is relevant to the Isle of Man

There are many people all over the world who have connections with the […]

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