Holiday II: Channel Islands
Aug. 19th, 2018 05:25 pmLast year I didn't manage to have a proper summer holiday at all, since I was in the middle of changing jobs and moving across country. So this year ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jack encouraged me to get my act together and actually go away for a week with no plan other than to be tourists.
I ended up picking the Channel Islands, mainly based on browsing The Man in Seat Sixty-One and looking for cool places we could go without flying. So we had most of a week exploring Guernsey, with a couple of days in Jersey at the end, and it was delightful.
( what I did on my holidays, including images, and some mention of historical Nazis )
So yes, that was a lot of fun, and a very good mixture of learning cool new stuff and relaxing. I was right to prioritize spending time in Guernsey; I did that partly because of the book I love which is set there, The book of Ebenezer Le Page by GB Edwards. But Guernsey seemed a much more distinct place, whereas Jersey just seems like any old prosperous south coast town, albeit with some really lovely vistas. I almost wish we'd stayed on Guernsey and taken trips to the smaller islands in its Bailiwick, and skipped Jersey altogether. Not that I regret what we did do, I had a really lovely time, and it was so nice to spend lots of uninterrupted time with my husband.
jack encouraged me to get my act together and actually go away for a week with no plan other than to be tourists. I ended up picking the Channel Islands, mainly based on browsing The Man in Seat Sixty-One and looking for cool places we could go without flying. So we had most of a week exploring Guernsey, with a couple of days in Jersey at the end, and it was delightful.
( what I did on my holidays, including images, and some mention of historical Nazis )
So yes, that was a lot of fun, and a very good mixture of learning cool new stuff and relaxing. I was right to prioritize spending time in Guernsey; I did that partly because of the book I love which is set there, The book of Ebenezer Le Page by GB Edwards. But Guernsey seemed a much more distinct place, whereas Jersey just seems like any old prosperous south coast town, albeit with some really lovely vistas. I almost wish we'd stayed on Guernsey and taken trips to the smaller islands in its Bailiwick, and skipped Jersey altogether. Not that I regret what we did do, I had a really lovely time, and it was so nice to spend lots of uninterrupted time with my husband.
