Jersey Channel Islands

This month we spent a few days in Jersey (our birthplace), with Estelle, our eldest daughter. Like last time, we stayed in a guest house in Harve De Pas St Helier, and hired a car. Once again, the weather waa fairly kind to us. We enjoyed cruising around, a seeing a mixture of places we had and had not seen before. The later included the Hamptonne museum of country life, (above),a collection of fine old granite buildings. We also visited the war tunnels, somewhere Mary had seen before, but Philip hadn't. it was a very well organised museum of the German occupation of Jersey in WW2.

We enjoyed again the excellent range of restaurants available. We had a particularly fine seafood meal in Gorey village (left). This time we managed to visit the la Mare vineyard shop (closed when we visited last year) (below), to buy some Jersey "black butter" ( a kind of apple preserve). . This time we packed the black butter in our suitcases so it didn't get confiscated at the airport security check. We also bought the jersey version of Monopoly and a Gurnesey sweater for Philip - as "Jersey" sweaters seemed to be unavailable.

We didn't manage to go on a day trip to Sark because the weather at the time didn't look great, but we did catch up with various relatives. Perhaps next year we'll return to jersey with our younger daughter! At the end of May, we are off to Brussels, our last trip away before the busy summer season for Mary.