What's Jersey Like?

[Spymaster]

We were supposed to go there a while ago but it didn't work out and I've been thinking about giving it a go ever since.

Anyone been? Is there enough to keep occupied for a week or would a weekend be better?

 

[1927]

Its a lovely place, certainly enough to keep you occupied for a week.

 

[fizzerbird]

Never been but really want to visit. Especially as they have rather nice hotel with my name on it...literally

 

[Spymaster]

Its a lovely place, certainly enough to keep you occupied for a week.

Cheers. Where and what's good there?

 

[strung out]

Guernsey's better, but I spent many holidays as a kid with the family on the Channel Islands. If you go to Guernsey, you can do a day trip to Sark, which is great.

The Jersey War Tunnels are fantastic too.

 

[1927]

Cheers. Where and what's good there?

I'll have a think, a little known attraction is the chapel built by Jesse Boot, the chemist guy, all the glass was down by Lalique, its stunning. Theres some WW2 nazi stuff, loads of good pubs. The island is very flat around the coastline, and flat again on top, but its a trek between the tow, but its a good place to cycle.There various harbours to see, with associated narbourside pubes, ST. Michael's Mount, Fort Regent etc. I'd love to go back, haven't been there for a few years.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

You can do a day trip to Sark from Jersey as well. Also if you like boat trips, these people will take you to the Minquiers or Ecrehous reefs which are amazing at low tides

These people can take you out to some of the towers on the eastern coast that are surrounded at high tide

History information here

Do you like swimming/fishing?

 

[Spymaster]

You can do a day trip to Sark from Jersey as well. Also if you like boat trips, these people will take you to the Minquiers or Ecrehous reefs which are amazing at low tides

These people can take you out to some of the towers on the eastern coast that are surrounded at high tide

History information here

Great links. Thank you.

Do you like swimming/fishing?

Yes.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Great links. Thank you.


Yes.

Then you should go. There are so many different swims to be had in Jersey and you can usually find somewhere with few or no people even on hot summer days

 

[danny la rouge]

Never been but really want to visit. Especially as they have rather nice hotel with my name on it...literally

Best Western?

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Best Western?

 

[redsquirrel]

Cheers. Where and what's good there?

German bunker and military hospital were pretty good. Gold museum was pretty average though (unless you've got a massive desire to see Bergerac's car). The Glass Church 1927 mentioned is definitely worth seeing.

 

[fizzerbird]

Best Western?

 

[DaveCinzano]

unless you've got a massive desire to see Bergerac's car

I'M IN

 

[DaveCinzano]

enough to keep you occupied

They're a bit sensitive about the 'o' word

 

[InfoBurner]

Tax haven twats have got enough money, they'll have none of my tourist tokens.

 

[Pickman's model]

Great links. Thank you.


Yes.

I thought you were familiar if not with Jersey then certainly with sark.

 

[cheesethief]

Guernsey's better, but I spent many holidays as a kid with the family on the Channel Islands. If you go to Guernsey, you can do a day trip to Sark, which is great.

The Jersey War Tunnels are fantastic too.

I would second this, I've not been for years but went to all the channel islands many times as a nipper.

Great beaches for kiddies, some of the cleanest water round the UK coast.

Jersey is bigger & more cosmopolitan, awash with tax dodging plutocrats, but at least you get to snigger at the sight of a Ferrari on a island with a 30mph speed limit...

Guernsey is smaller but a bit more bucolic for it. They're both quite delightful in their own way. Don't expect banging nightlife, it's more about the quaintness, pretty scenery, lots of history, etc. Excellent family holiday territory.

 

[tim]

They're a bit sensitive about the 'o' word

Hardly, it's a major source of tourist income. Collaboration and money laundering are the conversation killing topics.

 

[Pickman's model]

Hardly, it's a major source of tourist income. Collaboration and money laundering are the conversation killing topics.

Don't mention killing either, the locals ramain touchy about the subject

 

[Pickman's model]

Spymaster you can blame comic bill winterbottom for the word sarcastic. It gained popular currency after he coined the term entertaining troops on sark just after the war, until one night when all the troops had lost patience with his tired gags. He came out on stage after the interval and started off with a cheery "are we all feeling sark-astic?" only to be met by silence and then a slow hand clap. He never performed again and died a broken man in 1947.

 

[tim]

Don't mention killing either, the locals ramain touchy about the subject

Rubbish, they're making a killing out of the killings,

But don't mention the kids or the poor.

Children rebelled in small ways: dropping litter, swearing, facing down the police, having parties on the beach. On Jersey, all of these "offences" were, according to Lambert and Wilkinson, often sufficient to get a child into serious trouble. And once children had come to the attention of the police, it was almost inevitable that they would enter Jersey's care home system. Without any provision for children to be bailed, most were incarcerated on remand, placed alongside children taken from their families, often for such reasons as "giving the mother a break". In this rural backwater, one in 10 children had been in care, a ratio far higher than on the mainland.

Once in care, the real problems began, with predatory residents, some with criminal records, bunked with the vulnerable. Cases were almost never reviewed; Lambert and Wilkinson found in one group of 65 children, 36 had remained invisible inside the system for more than 10 years. This was the more likely if parents made little fuss, or even, in some cases, left the island. One of the invisible told us how he had been incarcerated at Haut de la Garenne for being repeatedly sarcastic to the hobby bobbies; he stayed in care for eight years, he says, without ever seeing a trained social worker, during which time he claimed to have been raped by adults and fellow inmates alike.

Home to something evil: Jersey care scandal

 

[1927]

Best thing about Jersey is fact the pubs are open at 9am!

 

[tim]

Best thing about Jersey is fact the pubs are open at 9am!

Best thing about Jersey are the potatoes

They deserve a thread of their own in suburban.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Catch this great Uk film set on Jersey, full of surprises

 

[Steel Icarus]

I've just arrived in St Helier!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Best thing about Jersey are the potatoes

They deserve a thread of their own in suburban.

Bit far to go just to buy some spuds though.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Bit far to go just to buy some spuds though.

Will report back. Our Air B and B host has left Jersey milk and butter for us too.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I've just arrived in St Helier!

Durn-duurn-duuurn....DUUUURRNNN

 

[JimW]

What's Helier the saint of?