ISLE OF MAN, THE TT and EDINBRUGH

 The Isle of Man and the TT (Tourist Trophy) Race 2025

In May of 2025 me and a bunch of my motorcycling friends met up on the beautiful Isle of Man, which is known as a British Crown Dependency.  It's self governing, but technically part of Great Britain.  Plus, they have one of the coolest flags in the world.

To get to the IOM, we first had to fly into Glasgow and while we were here, we explored Edinburgh.

 

We of course had to hit the bar as soon as we dropped out bags off in the room.

The next day, after a nice train ride from GLA to EDI, I met up with friends and we toured the Edinburgh Castle.

 

The castle was cool, but there were tons of tourists.

The next day, I explored Edinburgh on my own.  I went to some museums and galleries and just walked about.  It's beautiful.

 

 

 

The next day, we all went on an e-bike tour of Edinburgh and it was one of the highlights of the city for us all.

 

 

 

After the bike tour, we had to stop at a bar and do the scotch thing.

Saturday, May 31st

We all made our way to the Isle of Man, where we checked into a beautiful beachside Airbnb at The Port of Erin (thanks Stefan for arranging this one).

When in Rome, or in this case, Great Britain, of course you have to do the fish and chips thing.

Next, it was off to the races.  The TT is an extremely fast and extremely dangerous motorcycle race and it will go on for the better part of the week we were there, in fact, it's the reason we came.

These photos were from our week there.

 

A little dirt I grabbed for Kyle's dirt collection.

Curt was interviewed by the BBC while we were there.

I even managed to find some smoked brisket on the IOM, but of course it wasn't as good as the stuff from the good ole U.S.A.

And out of nowhere, there appeared this statue of The Bee Gee's...WTF?  As it turns out, all three members of the Bee Gee's were born on the IOM.  Who knew?

This cool little train made regular trips from Port Erin the the city centre of Douglas.  It was a lot of fun to ride.

Port Erin and our Airbnb at night.

This turned out to be the best burger I got on the entire trip and where did I get it you ask?  At the Isle of Man airport, of course.

I wish I had taken a lot more photos because this truly was an awesome trip, with great friends, beautiful scenery and a blood pumping race going on, but we seemed to be constantly on the go (20,000+ step days were the norm) and taking pictures just didn't come to mind a lot of the time.