The Irish used to say that Finn MacCool, their own Paul Bunyan, was throwing mud at some Scot giant one day and overshot, creating the Isle of Man. Today, it’s more often referred to as “80,000 alcoholics clinging to a rock.” Situated in the Irish Sea, roughly halfway between Belfast and Liverpool, it is 221 square miles of pastureland, forest, and grassy mountains, 33 miles at its longest and 13 miles at its widest. The Romans civilized it, then the Vikings sacked it, and while the buck now stops at Queen Elizabeth II, the Isle of Man makes its own rules as a “Crown dependency.” READ MORE ››
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