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Travel Blogs from St Peter Port
Trace the French 'Family' Connection
... the highlight was the dessert menu! What a great finish to our first day in the Channel Islands. Day 2 Despite the weather turning for the worse, we head on down to the pier to capture the Elizabeth Fort in all it's glory. Built as a garrison, this huge fort is built on a massive rock slab out in the beachfront. Photos were at a premium The wind was so strong that it nearly blew us off the pier. A visit to the Jersey Museum was well worth the ...
More Jersey
... to a Rob Rive. Earlier we'd printed off a page from the Jersey telephone book with about twenty or so Rive names on it. We noticed when reading it the occurence of Zoe as a name , given our darling Zoe Rive. So what a coincidence to randomly meet a Zoe Rive. She said that there were three other Zoe Rives on the island.
After rugby , more sight seeing to a famous surf beach on the northern more remote coast, St Ouen.Intrepid Tom had a swim.
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Stunning Jersey
... scenery with amazing beaches, narrow lanes, stone walls, vegetables growing, jersey cows and ancient forts and not so ancient German defences. A very interesting country combining French and English. All street names in French but everyone speaking English.
The second day was cloudy just right for a visit to the Jersey Tunnels, an amazing network of tunnels built by Germans during the war, ...
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
... which turn into short videos and you’ll see exactly what I mean. Hope you like them.
There are different awards for various categories of floats. Such as best paper flowers..... most humorous float.... Smallest float and Wallace & Grommit won that one hands down. And would you believe it, the Cinderella float stopped right on front of us and Prince Charming went down on one knee offering his Cinderella a small box; and yes, it was a public proposal of ...