Jersey 2009

Once again, we spent some time this year in Jersey. On this trip, we went with our younger daughter Roselle, fiancée Stan, and son, Dominic. Mostly the weather was fine and fairly warm. One one day, Philip and Mary did a a walk around the cliff tops on the north coast of the island. We stopped to eat lunch and have a cider, at Geve de Lecq, one of the nicest bays in the island. The walk was up and down quite a lot,but gave great views across the sea as far as Sark



One the first night, we went as far as Corbiere, to see the sun go down behind the lighthouse. The tide was coming up, and the waves were crashing against the rocks. It was quite a sight, if rather chilly.

We also went out to Elizabeth Castle. We went out by amphibious vehicle, as the tide was partly up (the wheels stayed on the ground), but we walked back. From the castle, there are great views across to St Helier.


At Gorey, people went fishing for razor fish, while Philip continued to add to his store of photographs of the castle. Now we are moving into Mary's hyper busy summer season. Our travel plans are being organised around the long trip home to NZ at the end of the year. We hope to manage a few days in Ireland, then some time in the UK, followed by France, Spain and Italy (or somewhere). We are not sure yet if we will travel on the long haul part via North America or Asia.