The weather is horrible today. We have gale force winds, high seas, rain... the central heating is on - it feels more like March than March did ( Read more... )

The second part of the post of my daughter's pictures of Sark are below the cut. They feature the garden of the Seigneurie, the traditional home of the feudal lord of the island. There are a couple of lovely pictures. You can tell it has been a nice autumn down in the Channel Islands when you look at the pictures and remember she took them on ( Read more... )

Sark - the island, not the state of being!

Sark is another Channel Island less than an hour by sea from Guernsey, and D-d visited it one Sunday a few weeks ago. It is renowned for having no cars or motorbikes, only tractors are allowed - which leads to some interesting use of tractors...

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A couple of weekends ago D-d visited Victor Hugo's house on Guernsey. It is only open for the summer season, and it was the last day of opening, so she braved heavy rain as she had been told it was well worth the visit ( Read more... )