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We went in February and had a great time. The zoo is fun, and we went on a tour of some bunkers with Jersey War Tours. Swam in the tidal pool. Didn't have a chance to go to the underground war tunnels but would do that next time.

We had a great night out starting in JBs but I think it might be closed now, playing table tennis and making friends with the bar woman and the only other 2 people in there who turned out to be policeman. The bar woman kept giving us pickle backs, then we went to Tiki hut and played pool really badly. It was rough the next day. But we've still got a group WhatsApp going.

Go to the beaches, the waters lovely right now. Trick is to go to a beach on the opposite side the wind is blowing from.

Great bus service.
 
smmudge said:
We went in February and had a great time. The zoo is fun, and we went on a tour of some bunkers with Jersey War Tours. Swam in the tidal pool. Didn't have a chance to go to the underground war tunnels but would do that next time.

We had a great night out starting in JBs but I think it might be closed now, playing table tennis and making friends with the bar woman and the only other 2 people in there who turned out to be policeman. The bar woman kept giving us pickle backs, then we went to Tiki hut and played pool really badly. It was rough the next day. But we've still got a group WhatsApp going.

Go to the beaches, the waters lovely right now. Trick is to go to a beach on the opposite side the wind is blowing from.

Great bus service.
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Yeah, the plan is to get a family bus pass for the week as it'll be cheaper than car hire
 
Do they have the same weird traffic law they have on Guernsey where you have to treat every junction as a roundabout, even though they don’t have mini roundabouts painted on the road?

Probably why the hire cars have big H markers on them.
 
I went over a couple of times for a weekend back in my early twenties and they were fun weekends although I didn’t get to see much of the island. A few years ago my family and I spent ten days there and it was a lovely holiday.

I’m not mad about zoo’s but we spent five days camping there in massive tents with proper beds, own bathrooms and kitchenette. Pricey but a great experience other than in the middle of the night being woken by the screaming Macaques. I thought there was a serial killer on the loose!

Also visited an ancients burial mound with a church built above on a hill. German Hospital was eerie but interesting and sad.

There are some really good restaurants in St Helier and lovely beaches.

Next time I want to see the Neanderthal caves by St Brelade and stop off in Alderney

There is more to do and see than I imagined.
 
A380 said:
Do they have the same weird traffic law they have on Guernsey where you have to treat every junction as a roundabout, even though they don’t have mini roundabouts painted on the road?

Probably why the hire cars have big H markers on them.
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Oh is that how you drove around Guernsey 🤣 please warn me if you ever come back!
 
I don't usually do this kind of post but if you like spicy food that's also unbelievably tasty get something from MOMO in St. Helier. I just had chilli beef chow mein and even though I went "safe" with medium hot it was fucking mental. Gorgeous. Almost died. Would eat again 10/10
 
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Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination
Thu 16 Jan 2025
The island’s private drinking water supplies were polluted by use of firefighting foams containing ‘forever chemicals’

Contamination persisted on the island for decades. “We know they started to use 3M’s firefighting foam in the 1960s and then ramped up in the 1990s in weekly fire training exercises, after which foam started to appear in nearby streams,” said Jeremy Snowdon, a former Jersey airport engineer who drank contaminated water for years. He has measured elevated levels of PFAS in his own blood and has high cholesterol.

Jersey discovered PFAS in groundwater in the mid-1990s. 3M met officials from island about their firefighting foams in September 2000 and stopped making the product at about the same time.
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It was not until 2006, however, that residents living in St Ouen’s Bay, part of the “plume area” affected by PFAS contamination, were moved to mains water supplies.

“Why did they allow us to keep drinking the well water all that time?” said Graeme Farmer, who lived next to the airport in the 1990s with his family.
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How did that go on for so long?
 
A380 said:
Do they have the same weird traffic law they have on Guernsey where you have to treat every junction as a roundabout, even though they don’t have mini roundabouts painted on the road?

Probably why the hire cars have big H markers on them.
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No idea but doesn't one of the channel islands have no cars allowed on it at all? Probably called teuchter island or something :p
 
The tap water was bogging, tbf, when I was there last summer. Luckily all I drank while I was there was coffee and wine.

Not sure I'd go again - I felt like a week was enough to see what I wanted to - but it was a nice place to visit, felt Mediterranean in climate etc. People a bit weird though, and can't really put my finger on why.
 
moochedit said:
No idea but doesn't one of the channel islands have no cars allowed on it at all? Probably called teuchter island or something
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Sark although plenty of tractors, and also Herm but they've got plenty of quad bikes.

Then you have Alderney which isn't that much bigger than Sark but they drive everywhere.

Steel Icarus said:
People a bit weird though, and can't really put my finger on why.
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Crapauds are like that 😂
 
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