As usual great TT, my 24th this year.

Seen a lot of change over these years, both with the island and the races themselves.

amazing to be on island for MD's wins, that was special.

The schedule was a mess, due to the weather. The Tuesday especially was frustrating but it must have been more for the racers. Nobody's fault really.

Its weird to see Douglas soo quiet in the evenings, previously every pub was rammed or standing outside only. This year on our pub crawls, seats and easily accessed pubs.

On the Monday 'rest day' we took a boat trip round the Calf, it was nice, the weather was great. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't really what we were there for.

Agree with the comments on the corporate stuff and fan zones, they do need to promote what else is actually going on throughout the fortnight. My opinion is that the TT provides for a lot of the hospitality businesses, churches etc income for the year and it appears that this seems to be trying to lock down to the fan park only. I do enjoy the fan park, the atmosphere is great (not Bushy's of old rowdy) but also not football fan/drunk idiots. Probably because its so expensive to be honest.

The 'bucket lister' thing seems to be where the money is. Its weird as the folks we spoke to on the ferry are yearly attendee's as are the people in our homestay, we didn't meet any first timers.

Frustrations this year. We were up at the bungalow for the superbike race on the Sunday. Arrived around 10am and sat enjoying the parade lap etc. Lap 2 of the race some folks arrived and stood right in front of us so we couldn't see. Frustrating but not the end of the world.

The French always meet on Douglas prom one evening of race week, just across from the Sefton. No issues with that, but the mess left was appalling, then the sea gulls started getting munched into whatever they had left. Not nice to see.