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    Insight Guides Great Breaks Guernsey 

    Travel made easy. Ask local experts.  
    Inspirational travel guide making the most of the British Isles through clearly laid-out walks and tours.

    Explore the best of Guernsey with this unique travel guide, packed full of insider information and stunning images. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see, top attractions like St Peter Port, Castle Cornet, and St Anne on Alderney, to discovering cultural gems, including the historic manor, gardens and sculpture park of Sausmarez Manor, the fascinating museum at Fort Grey, and the atmospheric former home of Victor Hugo at Hauteville House, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will save you time, and help you plan and enhance your great break in Guernsey. 

    Features of this travel guide to Guernsey:
    - Eight walks and tours: detailed itineraries feature all the best places to visit, including where to eat along the way
    - Local highlights: discover the area's top sights and unique attractions, and be inspired by stunning imagery
    - Historical and cultural insights: learn more about Guernsey's rich history with fascinating cultural insights throughout
    - Insider recommendations: where to stay and what to do, from active pursuits to themed trips
    - Rainy day recommendations: uncover plenty of options, whatever the weather throws at you
    - Practical full-colour maps: with every major sight and listing highlighted, the full-colour maps make on-the-ground navigation easy
    - Key tips and essential information: from transport to hours of operation, we've got you covered
    - Covers: St Peter Port; Moulin Huet Bay; Southern Guernsey; Central Guernsey; Northern Guernsey; Herm; Sark; Alderney 

    Looking for a comprehensive guide to England? Check out Insight Guides England for a detailed and entertaining look at all the country has to offer.

    About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInsight Guides
    Release dateApr 1, 2020
    ISBN9781839052392
    Insight Guides Great Breaks Guernsey (Travel Guide eBook)
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      How To Use This E-Book

      This Great Break has been produced by the editors of Insight Guides, whose books have set the standard for visual travel guides since 1970. With ­top-­quality photography and authoritative recommendations, these guidebooks bring you the very best routes and itineraries in the world’s most exciting destinations.

      Walks and Tours

      The clearly laid-out walks and tours in this book feature options for walking or using public transport wherever possible. The emphasis is on family fun, wholesome outdoorsey activities, local festivals, and food and drink. There are loads of great holiday ideas: kids’ stuff, best beaches, historic pubs, literary connections, unique shops, and – crucially with our Great British weather – what to do on a rainy day.

      We recommend reading the whole of a route before setting out. This should help you to familiarise yourself with it and enable you to plan where to stop for refreshments – options are shown in the ‘Eating Out’ box at the end of each tour.

      Introduction

      The routes are set in context by this introductory section, giving an overview of the destination to set the scene, plus background information on food and drink.

      Directory

      Also supporting the walks and tours is a Travel Tips section, with a clearly organised A–Z of practical information. There is a comprehensive round up of sports and activities in the destination, recommendations for themed holidays, plus our pick of the best places to stay.

      Getting around the e-book

      In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

      Maps

      All key attractions and sights mentioned in the text are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

      Images

      You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of the destination. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

      About Insight Guides

      Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

      Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

      © 2020 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

      Table of Contents

      Guernsey’s Top 10

      Overview: Guernsey

      Location and climate

      British links

      Economy

      Environment

      Food and Drink

      Fruits of the sea

      Local brews

      Tour 1: St Peter Port

      The Waterfront

      The harbour

      Liberation Place

      The Town Church

      Castle Cornet

      La Vallette Underground Military Museum

      La Vallette Bathing Pools

      The Aquarium

      The high town

      Hauteville House

      Market Square and town centre

      Civic St Peter Port

      Guernsey Museum at Candie

      Feature: Fables & Festivals

      Tour 2: St Peter Port to Moulin Huet Bay

      St Peter Port to Fermain Bay

      Fort George

      Fermain Bay

      Fermain Bay to Jerbourg Point

      Jerbourg Point

      Towards Petit Port

      The Pea Stacks

      Moulin Huet Bay

      Moulin Huet windmill

      The Doyle Monument

      Tour 3: Southern Guernsey

      Sausmarez Manor

      Manor gardens

      La Gran’mère de Chimquière

      German Occupation Museum

      Pleinmont Peninsula

      Rocquaine Bay

      Fort Grey

      A Guernsey to wear

      Silbe Nature Reserve

      Feature: Shipwrecks

      Tour 4: Central Guernsey

      German Underground Military Hospital

      The Little Chapel

      Pleinmont Headland/West Coast

      Lihou Island

      Ramsar Site

      Perelle Bay

      St Apolline’s Chapel

      St Saviour

      Tour 5: Northern Guernsey

      Talbot Valley

      Vazon Bay

      Cobo Bay

      Saumarez Park

      Folk and Costume Museum

      Retail therapy

      Grand Havre and L’Ancresse Common

      Le Déhus Dolmen

      St Sampson

      Tour 6: Herm

      Herm Harbour

      Herm Common

      Shell Beach and Belvoir Bay

      Wildlife

      Manor Village

      St Tugual

      Le Manoir

      Feature: Fishing

      Tour 7: Sark

      Brecqhou islet

      Arrival in Sark

      Horse-drawn carriages

      Big Sark

      La Seigneurie Gardens

      Port du Moulin and the Lighthouse

      The Prison

      La Coupée

      Little Sark

      Tour 8: Alderney

      Getting to Alderney

      St Anne

      Alderney Society Museum

      Island Hall

      Braye

      The Braye Breakwater

      The Alderney Railway

      The northeast coast

      Hammond Memorial

      Saye and Corblets Bays

      Mannez Quarry and Lighthouse

      Longis Bay

      Hanging Rocks

      South of the island

      Burhou Island

      South Coast Cliffs

      Telegraph Bay

      Active Pursuits

      Walking

      Angling

      Cycling

      Watersports

      Sailing and windsurfing

      Surfing, scuba diving and SUPB

      Adventure sports

      Golf

      Health and leisure

      Horse riding

      Themed Holidays

      Wild food foraging workshops and eco-camping

      Summer camps

      The White House Weekends, Herm

      Wellness breaks/Yoga retreats

      Practical Information

      Getting there

      By air

      By sea

      Getting around

      Buses

      Le Petit Train

      Car hire

      Driving

      Cycling

      Inter-island ferries and France

      Taxis

      Facts for the visitor

      Disabled travellers

      Emergencies

      Money

      Opening times

      Telephones

      Tourist information

      Entertainment

      Travel documents and customs allowances

      Accommodation

      Guernsey

      Herm

      Sark

      Alderney

      Guernsey’s Top 10

      The Channel Islands of Guernsey, Herm, Sark and Alderney bask in a temperate climate off the French coast, combining British sensibility with continental sunshine in what is the last remnant of the Duchy of Normandy.

      St Peter Port. Explore this ancient port with its cobbled streets, colourful harbour and fine seafood restaurants. For more information, click here.

      Visit Guernsey

      German Occupation Museum. See how the islanders lived during World War II, through recreated domestic scenes, documents, recipes and ration books. For more information, click here.

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      Castle Cornet. Listen to the roar of the noon-day gun and explore the museums of this medieval castle. For more information, click here.

      Visit Guernsey

      Hauteville House. Take a tour of Victor Hugo’s home in exile and discover that the French author was also an inspired interior decorator. For more information, click here.

      Visit Guernsey

      Sausmarez Manor. Tour the historic family manor, explore informal gardens and discover wonderful works of art in the sculpture park. For more information, click here.

      Alamy

      Herm. Take a day or half-day trip to this tiny, car-free island and enjoy the walks, beaches and birdlife. For more information, click here.

      Visit Guernsey

      Fort Grey. Gripping stories of shipwrecks around Guernsey’s western shores are the theme of the museum within the fort. For more information, click here.

      Visit Guernsey

      La Seigneurie, Sark. Enjoy the formal walled garden and exotic shrubbery at La Seigneurie, home of the seigneur of Sark since 1730. For more information, click here.

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      Folk and Costume Museum. Intriguing displays from rural 18th century life, housed in farm buildings around a central courtyard. For more information, click here.

      Mockford & Bonetti/Apa Publications

      St Anne, Alderney. An engaging little town with cobbled streets, pastel-painted old houses and a fascinating small museum. For more information, click here.

      Visit Guernsey

      Overview: Guernsey

      Guernsey and its tiny sister islands lie in the Gulf of St Malo and have a distinct Gallic twist. Expect beautiful bays, superb seafood and the sunniest climate in the British Isles.

      When French novelist Victor Hugo was exiled in 1851, he thought long and hard about where to make his new home. Since he spoke only French, he wanted to live somewhere where French was understood. He finally chose the Channel Islands because they were ‘morsels of France fallen into the sea and gathered up by England’.

      Autumnal Candie Gardens, St Peter Port

      Visit Guernsey

      If Hugo felt perfectly at home in the Channel Islands, so too did the numerous British and Irish army officers and colonial servants who chose to settle here in the 19th century. The addition of new Anglian and Celtic ingredients to the existing French culture resulted in a mix that makes the islands feel reassuringly familiar, yet still exotic.

      Guernsey

      ‘Similar but different’ is a phrase that could also describe the way that Jersey and Guernsey seek to differentiate themselves from each other. They each issue their own currencies, phonecards and postage stamps, none of which are valid on the mainland. Letter boxes are different colours (red on Jersey, blue on Guernsey) and each claims its version of the classic knitted fisherman’s jumper. Guernsey people rarely refer to Jersey by name: to them, it is ‘the other island’. They refer to its inhabitants, only half in jest, as crapauds (toads) – because the toad is found on Jersey but not on Guernsey. With their slower pace of life, Guernsey people are dismissed as ânes (donkeys) by their bigger-island rivals.

      Bustling high street in St Peter Port

      Visit Guernsey

      Location and climate

      As a group, the islands sit just off the Cherbourg peninsula. With an area of 24 sq miles (62 sq km), and a population of around 63,000, Guernsey is the second biggest of the Channel Islands after Jersey, but the more densely populated. The Bailiwick of Guernsey consists of Guernsey, the islands of Herm, Jethou, Sark and Alderney, and a number of scattered lighthouse rocks and islets, such as Burhou, Ortac and the Casquets. The tiny islands of Herm (20 minutes by ferry from Guernsey) and Sark (45 minutes) are peaceful retreats, with sandy beaches and dramatic clifftop scenery. Sark’s 450-year-old feudal system came to an end in 2008 when the Chief Pleas (legislative body) was reformed, the first general election was held and Sark became Europe’s newest democracy. Alderney is the northernmost of the Channel Islands, just 8 miles (13km) from France. It was deliberately depopulated during the war and used as a forced labour camp. Community life has been successfully rebuilt since the island’s liberation in 1945; Alderney is now popular with ornithologists and beach lovers looking for privacy and a peaceful escape from the busy world.

      The Channel Islands are mild in winter and sunny in summer, but strong winds can make temperatures feel cool. In the summer months, the islands have a daily average of eight hours of sunshine and an average maximum temperature of 68˚F (20˚C). The Atlantic sea temperatures are cool for swimming, averaging 62.8˚F (17.1˚C) in summer.

      British links

      Although they are not truly British, the Channel Islands have been linked with the British Crown for over 900 years. Self-government was granted to the islands by King John in 1204, as a reward

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