The Great Outdoors – July 2019

Map: Allyson Shields

Walking on Guernsey is tipped as a year-round

activity by the Tasty Walks guide, but if you find

yourself thwarted by bad weather, there are plenty

of other ways to spend a few hours on the island.

ESSENTIAL
INFORMATION

WET WEATHER ALTERNATIVES

Maps: The States of
Guernsey map of
the Bailiwick is an
Ordnance Survey style
map with Guernsey at
1:15,000 on the front and
Alderney, Sark & Herm at
1:10,000 on the reverse.
It also has a town plan of
St Peter Port at 1:3000.

Getting there: Condor Ferries operate daily
between Poole and Guernsey. Check the
website (condorferries.co.uk) for up-to-date
sailing times. The journey should take just over
three hours but sometimes subject to delays
owing to weather conditions.

Getting around : The island has a wonderfully
efficient bus service (buses.gg) covering pretty
much all the locations you could want to visit.
Routes 91 and 92 encircle the island and are
easy to reach from the round island walking
route, should you need to use it to complete your
journey.

Where to stay:

• Jerbourg Hotel, Jerbourg Point 
  St. Martins, GY4 6BJ hoteljerbourg.com
  
  
  • The Imperial, Rocquaine Bay, Torteval,
    GY8 0PS, http://www.theimperial.gg
  
  
  • Côbo Bay hotel, Côbo Coast Road,
    GY5 7HB, cobobayhotel.com
  
  
  
  

Where to eat:

• The Auberge, Jerbourg Road, St Martin


• Fermain Bay Beach Café, Fermain Bay,
  St Peter Port

Where to drink:

• The Imperial Hotel, Rocquaine Bay, Torteval


• The Ship and Crown, St Peter Port

Tasty Walks: A wide range of routes is included

in the self-guided Tasty Walks programme, each

one supported by an audio guide, voiced by TV

personality James Strawbridge, a full audio

transcript and interactive map that highlights

all the points of interest along the way. We

combined walks 3 and 4.

For background on the wartime relics and to

hear what island life was like under German

occupation, the Occupation Museum and

the Guernsey Underground Hospital are good

places to start.

Victor Hugo’s House in St. Peter Port has been

extensively refurbished and was re-opened

this spring. The writer and poet was exiled here

after falling out with Napoleon and built this

extraordinarily eccentric four-storeyed home

overlooking the water. 

The Little Chapel, modelled on the Rosary

Basillica at Lourdes and made from hundreds

and thousands of tiny pieces of broken ceramic,

is a couple of miles out of St Peter Port in Les

Vauxbelets valley. It’s was conceived and built

in 1914 by Brother Deodat and is reportedly

the smallest functioning chapel in Europe.

For a grand overview of the island’s history,

the Tapestry Museum is an ideal place to start.

Each panel depicts stories from a century

of the last millennium and the audio guide

picks out all the important details. If you

want to know more about the Pouquelaïe

(fairies) Varou (wereworlf), Lé Haptalaön

(hobgoblin), Désorchéleur (male white witch)

Désorcheul’raesse (female white witch) and

the deeply embedded folklore of the island, The

Guernsey Museum at Candie (pictured) has an

insightful display.

St Peter Port

GUERNSEY

Lihou

Island

Fermain Bay

Pleinmont Jerbourg

Moulin

Huet

Bay

Petit

Bôt

Bay

ENGLISH CHANNEL

L’Eree

Bay

Vazon

Bay

Cobô

Bay

Torteval

Walking Route

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