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| so close to France |
Steps – 12,997
Humidity – 87%
We were half expecting to wake up to another
sea day this morning. The rocking and rolling had all but stopped last night,
but the wind was still howling, and the swells remained high.
Luckily, things were calm enough for the tender
boats to run us the 10 min to shore.
Guernsey (pop.64,000) is the second largest
island in the Channel Islands, the largest being Jersey. Guernsey much closer
to France (27 miles away) than it is to England (Jersey is even closer to France.)
I need to learn more about the history of that.
The plan today was to stretch our legs with a
good long walk and then find a pub for a pint and a meat pie or fish and chips
- 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
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| expensive! |
There was a market along the waterfront which was fun and interesting to wander through. I think we heard a local saying that yesterday was supposed to be market day, but due to the high winds, it was postponed until today.
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| flowers everywhere |
It was a typical market very similar to one you’d
see at home with handicrafts, baking, food trucks (we had a ‘French hot dog’)
and an eight-piece drum band. It made for what would otherwise probably have
been a quiet Sunday in town with most shops closed quite lively.
Once on shore, we wandered through the market and then picked up our pace along the waterfront path. Eventually, we found ourselves back at The Albion House, a pub we visited on our last trip to Guernsey. Unfortunately for us, this
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| St Peter church |
pub doesn’t have a kitchen – a bitter for Chris and a cider for me (both local) and we were on our way…not before paying $12CAD for each pint! WOW!
While it wasn’t hard to find places serving food it was hard to find food that was in our price range…fish and chips for $30CAD was a bit much for us. We went back to the French hot-dog seller and split one…I’m not sure what makes it French, other than 2 British guys, pretending to be French working the place, but it was tasty! More like a sausage in a baguette topped with caramelized onions.
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| one and done at the Albion |
A quick second pint at a pub where we almost won
the meat draw and we headed back to the ship. Meat draws seem to be all the
rage in Guernsey pubs. We didn’t really almost win, you have to play to win! We
had visions of carting slabs of meat back to the ship.
Guernsey is a much more expensive place than I
remember. A pint for 12CAD…wow!
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| roadside chien chaud |
Before we left, we had to pop into a Boots the Chemist to see if we could find and new flavours of crisps – Worcestershire and Spicy Paprika, not bad.
Once back at the ship, we ordered room service
of cut up veg, and chips and salsa to tide us over until the next feed.
BTW – despite this room being a tight squeeze for us, the shower is great. I’d say it’s about 1x2m (about the size of a bathtub) with a great shower head (an actual shower head plus the rain head for those maniacs out there that like those!) a door that doesn’t leak, and hot water almost on demand. It’s no
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| 5 pounds, a bit better |
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| hard to find new favours |
Princess shower, which was definitely the best shower I’ve ever had the pleasure of using, but great.
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| palm trees in the UK |
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