St Peter Port, Harbour 1899, Guernsey
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Honeymoon
We spent our honeymoon (1951) in Guernsey, and we had a lovely time. Even though it was only six years since the end of the war and the Islanders had suffered badly from the German occupation, we had as much butter and milk as we wanted, with fresh hot rolls with our breakfast each morning. This was total luxury as we still had rationing at home.
Packaged holidays had not started and this was almost like going abroad at the time.
We had booked a coach trip one day, but missed the bus into St Peter Port, but a local man came to our rescue, by getting his own car out and driving us into St Peter Port. All he would accept were our grateful thanks. The whole place and people were wonderful.
In two weeks time we are going to Jersey for a week. I would have liked to have gone back to Guernsey but this is not possible. Our local airport only flys to Jersey and we are... Read more
Holidays in Guernsey
We first went to Guernsey in June 1979. The first thing we noticed as we drove off the ferry was that the pace of life was a lot calmer then here in England - mainly because of the speed limit of 30 mph. My husband spent 30 years in the Metropolitan Police Force - a very stressful job and has always said that Guernsey is the only place where he can totally "switch off".
We stayed at a holiday apartment in Vale. Guernsey was still very much the same as it had been when the war ended. As it was not a popular holiday destination at the time it was very peaceful and very beautiful but as there were still a lot of road signs missing it was difficult to follow a road map which meant we were always getting lost. We returned in 1981 when our daughter was 18 months old. That was when we discovered Portelet Harbour. An ideal place for us to spend our time as... Read more
