Travel

Guernsey is the second largest of the Channel Islands. It is just twenty-five square miles but you can follow coastal paths, passing coastal forts like Clarence Battery and find sheltered beaches like Petit Bot Bay. Guernsey has a beautiful coastline but there is also plenty to explore inland too, such as the nature trails and floral displays of Saumarez Park and Sausmarez Manor.  

With it’s unique location, surrounded by the sea, and with that continental ambience which results from France being just a few short miles away, a holiday on Guernsey is something special.

Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables – now a blockbusting film – while in Guernsey. If the movie has piqued your curiosity, then you should also consider going to Guernsey. Victor Hugo, the author of the 19th Century novel behind the film, was expelled from France in 1852. His first choice of refuge was another Channel Island, Jersey. But he was soon kicked out of there, too, for being critical of Queen Victoria. So the literary giant ended up spending most of his 20 years of exile on neighbouring Guernsey, which he called the ‘rock of hospitality and freedom’.

Guernsey’s well marked coastal paths and green lanes offer stunning walks for all levels of fitness.