Jersey update.

What a lovely post. Thank you for sharing your holiday with us

Try staying in Guernsey next time. It has all the attributes of Jersey in a slightly smaller space and you would have the added opportunity of visiting Sark and Herm, 2 stunning little islands within the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Glad you enjoyed your holiday.

The Channel Islands are fascinating. A bit like being abroad only not quite.

It is interesting that you were there on Liberation day. The German occupation must have brought very dark days to the inhabitants of Jersey.

You clearly had a great time. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing, it looks and sounds like you had the best time.

Those war tunnels are something else! Bit nippy inside though.

Wow! I am so pleased you had such a great time and came back to tell us about it. Sounds as if you managed to get to the very heart of local events. If you need a recommendation for another hotel, The Greenhills Country House Hotel is superb. You probably got Jersey in its best month with all the hawthorn and wild flowers out. By June they are doing the branchage which involves cutting all the hedgerows along the narrow country lanes so people and cars can get by.

What a lovely description of our time in Jersey. Thankyou x

Your time

I used to go frequently in my youth. Loved it better than any of the worldwide holidays I’ve had since.

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Your time

Perhaps Sago will take you next time.

I haven’t been to Jersey, but my first time of flying I was taken to Guernsey which we loved, it seemed quite exotic! I had my first Jersey Royal potatoes today and was very disappointed! They don’t taste anything like they used to. I wonder if you had some on your holiday which sounds fantastic.

We loved it there. I'm so glad you had a lovely time. xx

It’s Alderney for me!

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It’s Alderney for me!

You’re talking my language now! The Cinderella island. The absolute best for me too.
I do appreciate the nice review of Jersey of course but it real is very anglicised in contrast to Guernsey. All the islands being so different are worthy of a visit.

Thanks for sharing your Jersey visit with us. You must be very energetic to pack all that in.!

Re your first post before you went on holiday when l offered some suggestions. If you go to Jersey on holiday again there is still plenty to see and do.

I lived and worked there on and off during the 1970's and still didn't see all of it.

Thank you for taking a moment to write about your stay Sago, it sounds like it was very enjoyable. I remember the out of town M&S stores from when I lived in France, and popped over fortnightly to get my food fix shopping. The "farm to fork" dinner looks good fun.

I think Jersey Royals no longer taste as good because they're not grown in seaweed anymore? I can't remember who that is, but I read it somewhere.

We used to hear about lots of posters' holidays on GN until a few people put the dampers on them. I miss those threads, and by goodness, do we need some excuse to talk about them at the moment. 🌧 ☔️

I loved reading your itinerary and would appreciate seeing more like this, makes me want to go to Jersey and do all those things - thank you 😊

You've reminded me of the many trips my late husband and I did to Jersey.
1976, the very hot summer we went by boat, overnight from Weymouth, with my brother and family.
He had bought a new trailer tent and suggested we joined them. It was great fun. His children were possibly 5 and 6.
On our own we had stayed at various hotels over the years.
We did one holiday on Gurnsey, that too was very enjoyable. The week we had chosen coincided with the Powerboat Race around the island. Wow the boats were fabulous and a mini canvas City set up in the Harbour where pop up shops selling very expensive clothing.

My husband was very interested to see the huge very smart lorries that had carried the power boats to the their point of departure across to Gurnsey. Shiny paint bright chrome, quite a sight.
Thankyou for this thread. It's sparked some interesting memories for me.

Glad but not surprised to hear that you had a good time on Jersey. You really made the most of it with all your walking!
We're off to Guernsey next month and hope to have as successful a holiday as the one we had in Jersey last year.

We have been to both jersey and guernsey and while both are lovely. my preference is guernsey.

Re the Jersey Royals, yes we ate plenty!

Some but not all farmers dig vraic/seaweed into the soil to give the potatoes a nutty flavour.

All over the island are honesty boxes selling plants, wood, potatoes, honey etc.
Apparently the best Jersey Royals are from a small farm in St Ouen.

Yum. We had Jersey Royals at home last night but they didn't seem as good as the ones we had on Jersey.

The Jersey Royal potato brand is now owned by the family‑run Scottish company Albert Bartlett, which completed its purchase of The Jersey Royal Company in March 2024. Vraicing or collecting seaweed as fertiliser goes back a thousand years. Once they were taken over in recent years it became a multi million pound industry. Farmers plant their Jersey Royal in staggered succession depending on where their slopes (cotils) or fields are located. When vraic (seaweed) was used it gave them a rich nutty flavour which even the locals feel has changed. The farm at L'Etacq in St Ouen is like folkloric ground. People come from all over the island to buy the farmer's Royals and you know the summer season has started once his sign goes up! He is one of the only farmers to still use vraic as it is right on his door step on the beach opposite!

This is very interesting. We used to have similar potato growing farms here on the Devon and Cornwall coast where traditionally seaweed was used as fertiliser. I must find out what happens these days.

it looks lovely. I'm glad you had a nice time