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Travel Blogs from St. Helier
Trace the French 'Family' Connection
... day with sunshine. We drop into a little French patisserie only to be great by a one minute hailstorm show. The colour of the market with its somewhat unusual flowers and fruits is a sight to behold. We had the feeling of being in a medieval European city with people trading their wears in the busy market atmosphere - a simple yet highlight if the Jersey trip. Dinner was great. Obviously seafood was called for with even Mark partaking in some local fish. ...
More Jersey
... The St Helier end of the island appears to have a lot of modern buildings along with the beautiful old ones in the winding narrow streets of the town. Lots of forts on little islands approached by causeways at low tide. We so enjoyed Tom's company and his sense of fun. An anti clockwise drive round the island, presented us with our first tidal swimming pool at St Clement and both Tom and Paul swam. I got into togs, though only made it to mid calf ...
Stunning Jersey
... labour (either locals or Russian slave workers). The experience was amazing and thought provoking. Britain abandoned Jersey to Nazi occupation as it wasn't of strategic value. Not too sure I'd have been so forgiving as the people of Jersey were as they welcomed the British back at the end of the war. It was such an excellent presentation of the history of the time and captured our full attention for ...
Sark to...?
... off somewhere closer and go for a short while? I had so many doubts about going, but at the same time I was extremely excited about the though of just packing up and travelling to another country.
When it came to leaving sark, I didn’t really feel ready to go and after visiting my family in England I went back to Sark and spent the next few months working. I ended up in a relationship with Hendrik, a Durban born ...
And so back to the UK temporarily
Well, it's that time of year again and we’re now preparing to leave 'our’ island for a couple of months. We hear that the weather has not been too kind, and we hope it’ll be better when we get there.
It’s been totally manic and hectic here the last few weeks, and dare I say, somewhat posh. Once gain we went to that ‘world famous’ competition called, "I Love My Ram", and yes, you read it quite correctly. A competition to find the most ...