Westhill Country Hotel St. Helier

The Isle of Jersey is truly a delightful place. My choice to come here was a pretty much last thought kind of deal after I had already made arrangements for Iceland and England. So thought I'd pop over here for a quick overnight rather than spend the time in London trying to see sights I have seen before. I am quite glad I did and just wish I had thought of it before so I could have spent more time here. It has a lot of history but I was only able to see a ...

found out yesterday that sky europe has ceased its operations. just great. that is one leg we had flying from Prague to Venice so now i'll have to find another way and i'm sure it won't be as cheap. well, if that's the only problem i run into for 4 months, eh?...

... over the slimy walkway where spots of it are covered with seaweed, and up to the castle doors which are very locked and closed tightly. no signs as to why. there was one workman taking a break and he said the winds were too high for the boats so they closed the castle.
Poo, that was one attraction I really wanted to see. So I walk around the outside a little bit, in all, spending maybe 15 minutes there ...

We got on to the ferry to Saint Malo and Julz was feeling sea sick. Instead of sitting in our club class seats, she chose to spend an hour outside and then the rest of the journey in cattle class right at the back of the ferry!! Si was very supportive x

... the Hotel NH Caransa was located. The
Rembrandtplein is a great square with many cafes and restaurant
surrounding the square. We checked in around 10:00 am and took a
nap. We were moving by 2:00 pm and took the tram on a dry run to the
Avis rent a car office near Leidseplein to determine how long it
would take to get there on Thursday. We then walked around the
floating flower market and headed to Spui, a square with many pubs
Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom nedk

Saturday June 20



I met Whitford on a swim up pool bar
stool on the island of Langkawi, off the northwest coast of Malaysia,
just in sight of Thailand. He and his wife Heather were vacationing
there when meeting up by chance with three other wonderful couples at
the pool. My four days were spent with the group, self named the
“Pelangi Parliment”, Pelangi being the resort we were staying at.
I bonded with Whitford immediately as we were ...

... made our way down to Market Street and the Fish Market. Bought ourselves some Jersey fudge and chocolates and Jacqui got a new dress. Then we walked back and had dinner at the cafe below the Pomme d'Or Hotel. I had rump steak with melted cheese and avacodos...and I'm sad to say I was more impressed with the grilled veggies that came ...

... thinking that maybe it was like the Steppes of the Mongolian wilderness. Nope...it was steps as in staircases. The town is NOT handicap friendly. Our hotel was up enough steps to give me a little bit of a sweat. Good thing we packed light (relative to our normal amount). The hotel though was pretty nice and the front desk woman is GREAT. She offered to do the laundry for us when I was asking for directions to the closest launderette. HOW ...

... is actually this week, but it works out well, because now I get to celebrate Turkey Day w/ my group. So, I flew to Jersey on Thursday. It took me longer to get to the airport than it took me to fly (a think the flight was 30 minutes). Phil, Thia, and I ran some errands, made pies, and drank on Thursday. Friday Phil cooked all day while Thia and I worked on our school work (Thia worked a lot ...

St. Peter Port in Guernsey, Channel Islands was an interesting mix of British and French culture. Street names, architecture, and language are a blend of influences. We toured the main Anglican church and saw with marble statues and tombstones written in French. There was a small street market filled with handcrafted jewelry and pottery, and British pubs that promised to bar patrons who were too rowdy during football games.