TOURING & ADVENTURE Day Ride
Starting on the Queens Promenade in the island’s capital, Douglas, we head south and around the quayside, past Mad Jack’s axe-throwing venue and the Hooded Ram brewery, then past the Nunnery (which, 40 years ago, was famous for the size of the conkers on the horse chestnut trees) before peeling off left on to the Old Castletown Road.
There’s a left turn to Port Soderick, and it’s worth a view, although it has neither the amusement arcade nor the café/restaurant that it once had, despite the local rumours of development, although it is a beautiful cove in which you can still spot the remains of the coastal walk that was put into place during the island’s heyday as a tourist hotspot a century ago. Further
