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Jerseyfile: Walking PLEMONT BAY 2008 Walking Events 17–24 May, Spring Walking Festival Spring is a wonderful season to explore the island on foot. And there’s the added attraction of this festival, which lays everything on for you. All the routes are planned, the transport in place, and each walk is led by a local guide who knows the area intimately. Distances vary from one to 14 miles, and with over 40 separate walks there’s plenty of choice for all the family. Themes for each walk change every year, but to give you an idea previous festivals have included walks for foodies, birdwatchers and single people… and even ones based on lighthouses, ghosts, bats and pedigree cattle. Jersey’s fortified coastal towers feature on some routes, including the famous ‘Moonwalk’ to Seymour Tower (see the previous pages). Most popular of all are the daily coastal walks. When added together over the week they make up a complete circuit of the island’s ever-changing coastline, traversing 20 pureJersey quiet sandy bays and dramatic clifftops. For the free 32-page booklet describing each walk please contact Jersey Tourism or visit www.jersey.com/walking 21 June, Itex Walk Covering 48 miles, this annual event attracts both local and visiting walkers, raising funds for Jersey charities. Expect to complete the course in anything between 12 to 21 hours. www.itex.je/walk 13–20 September, Autumn Walking Festival Enjoy wonderful autumnal colours on a free programme of countryside, coastal and historical walks with some of the island’s most experienced guides. Highlight of the week is the ‘Around Island Walk’. Your Very Own Guide Please see page 59 for details of the walking publications available from Jersey Tourism. ABOVE BONNE NUIT BAY Public Transport Walkers find it easy to get around the island with the help of an excellent bus service. Please see the ‘Island Exploration’ Jerseyfile for full details of unlimited-travel Island Explorer tickets. Tel 01534 877772 www.mybus.je Three of the best hotels in Jersey… but don’t just take our word for it. For more than 80 years, the Seymour family have been operating hotels exclusively in Jersey and are the largest and longest-established hotel group in the Channel Islands. Each of our three hotels has a unique character and appeal, but is underpinned by the highest standards of service that has become a hallmark of the Group. We can tell you how wonderful each hotel is and about the fabulous facilities available but we think that you should also read what our guests think. That’s why on the front page of each of our hotel’s websites you will find a link to the world’s largest travel review website, Tripadvisor® where you can read some of our guests’ opinions about their stay. Of course, not all our guests have nice things to say about us but you can be sure that they represent genuine views and are not just brochure-speak. We also use the feedback to improve our hotels for future guests. So take a look at our website to find more about each hotel. Then click on the Tripadvisor® logo and let our guests show you why we take such pride in our hotels. POMME D'OR HOTEL PORTELET HOTEL MERTON HOTEL Pomme d’Or Hotel ★★★★ Channel Island Hotel of the Year 2007 Located at the heart of St Helier. Tel 01534 880110 email: enquiries@pommedorhotel.com www.pommedorhotel.com Special offer – 3 for 2 weekend breaks available all year Merton Hotel ★★★ Jersey’s favourite family hotel Tel 01534 724231 email: enquiries@mertonhotel.com www.mertonhotel.com Special offer – Free evening meals during certain periods Portelet Hotel ★★★ Elegance and style with stunning views Tel 01534 741204 email: enquiries@portelethotel.com www.portelethotel.com Special offer – free car hire throughout your stay www.seymourhotels.com
Life and Liberty Jersey’s experiences during World War Two have left enduring memories. When your liberty is taken away, you don’t forget in a hurry. Broadcaster Sue Cook, who has presented everything from the Holiday programme to Radio 4’s popular Making History, looks at how the Jersey of today remembers all its yesterdays. 22 pureJersey LIBERATION FESTIVITIES LIBERATION SQUARE, ST HELIER to Jersey – the ideal wartime holiday resort!’ exhorted ‘Come the brochures. ‘The bays with their eternal sands, sea and sunshine together produce an atmosphere of peaceful tranquillity…’ It was May 1940. In Europe, World War Two was well underway. By contrast, Jersey’s sandy beaches remained bathed in quiet sunshine. There was no reason to expect otherwise. After all, the First World War had passed the Channel Islands by. Why would the second be any different? ‘Happily, our island is far removed from the theatre of war,’ the brochure went on to say. If only. Six weeks later, on July 1st, 1940, that ‘peaceful tranquillity’ was shattered when the German Luftwaffe bombed St Helier. Two more days and Hitler’s forces had landed. The island was under German rule for the best part of the next five years. Deliverance arrived on May 9th 1945, the day after VE Day, when the British Navy sailed into St Helier. It was an occasion of such relief that, more than 60 years on, the annual Liberation Day festivities on May 9th are still hugely important on the island. Not one to miss a good celebration, I arrive the morning before the big day. I am booked into the famous Pomme d’Or Hotel, headquarters for Hitler’s Navy during the Occupation. It stands in Liberation Square and I stop to admire the striking memorial statue depicting the moment occupation became liberation: seven bronze figures – six islanders and a British soldier – triumphantly holding aloft a giant Union Jack. An estate car pulls up with a trailer loaded with chairs. Volunteers busy themselves setting them out in rows. In front of them a stage is being assembled – the focal point of tomorrow’s ceremony when the guest of honour will be His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. The party atmosphere is already beginning to build. From my room at the Pomme d’Or overlooking the square and harbour, I’ll have a grandstand view of tomorrow’s proceedings. No time to unpack now, I’m due to meet Tom Bunting, one of Jersey’s Blue Badge guides and an expert on the island’s wartime heritage. We meet at the appropriately named Gunsite Café, a converted German-built concrete command post overlooking sandy St Aubin’s Bay. Its tranquil pale-blue décor, chalk-written menu boards and sea view make it hard to visualise its warlike function. Over fresh orange juice and home-baked carrot cake Tom tells me that most of the old German bunkers and gun emplacements are still in evidence. Instead of destroying them, the ever-practical and resourceful islanders have put them to good use. One, filled with sea-water, is a storehouse for freshly caught lobsters. Others serve as a turbot farm and a museum filled with relics and artefacts from the Occupation. Yet another has become a cycle hire shop. Similarly, the concrete sea-walls the Germans built all round the island are still doing their job so efficiently that there’s no need to replace them. As I discover later in the day, these and other wartime relics have a strange beauty all of their own, their presence amongst sea-cliffs and headlands fusing brutality with beauty much in the same way as a medieval castle in a mountain setting. Later, Tom promises, he’ll show me the Corbière Radio Tower on the west coast, once a German observation post, now converted into a six-storey holiday home with stunning 360-degree views across ocean and field. When I see it I can’t help thinking that it mirrors its near neighbour, the Corbière Lighthouse, a famous Jersey landmark on the rocks below. If so, it’s by happy accident – I doubt that the Germans planned it that way. But first, Tom’s going to take me on his ‘Living with the Enemy’ walk, which proved an instant hit with Jersey’s visitors when he introduced it in 2006. It’s a two-mile wooded stroll from the Gunsite Café to the astonishing Jersey War Tunnels (more on these later). We set off along an idyllic country lane, crossing a mill stream before finding a wooded trail almost hidden between the trees. As we walk, Tom talks about the harsh reality of life for the people of Jersey under German rule. 1 book online at www.jersey.com 23
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<strong>Jersey</strong>file: Walking<br />
PLEMONT BAY<br />
2008 Walking Events<br />
17–24 May, <strong>Spring</strong> Walking Festival<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> is a wonderful season to explore<br />
the island on foot. And there’s the added<br />
attraction of this festival, which lays<br />
everything on for you. All the routes are<br />
planned, the transport in place, and each<br />
walk is led by a local guide who knows<br />
the area intimately. Distances vary from<br />
one to 14 miles, and <strong>with</strong> over 40<br />
separate walks there’s plenty of choice<br />
for all the family.<br />
Themes for each walk change every year,<br />
but to give you an idea previous festivals<br />
have included walks for foodies,<br />
birdwatchers and single people… and even<br />
ones based on lighthouses, ghosts, bats<br />
and pedigree cattle. <strong>Jersey</strong>’s fortified<br />
coastal towers feature on some routes,<br />
including the famous ‘Moonwalk’ to<br />
Seymour Tower (see the previous pages).<br />
Most popular of all are the daily coastal<br />
walks. When added together over the week<br />
they make up a complete circuit of the<br />
island’s ever-changing coastline, traversing<br />
20 pure<strong>Jersey</strong><br />
quiet sandy bays and dramatic clifftops.<br />
For the free 32-page booklet describing<br />
each walk please contact <strong>Jersey</strong> Tourism<br />
or visit www.<strong>jersey</strong>.com/walking<br />
21 June, Itex Walk<br />
<strong>Cover</strong>ing 48 miles, this annual event<br />
attracts both local and visiting walkers,<br />
raising funds for <strong>Jersey</strong> charities. Expect<br />
to complete the course in anything<br />
between 12 to 21 hours.<br />
www.itex.je/walk<br />
13–20 September, Autumn Walking<br />
Festival<br />
Enjoy wonderful autumnal colours on a<br />
free programme of countryside, coastal<br />
and historical walks <strong>with</strong> some of the<br />
island’s most experienced guides.<br />
Highlight of the week is the ‘Around<br />
Island Walk’.<br />
Your Very Own Guide<br />
Please see page 59 for details of the<br />
walking publications available from<br />
<strong>Jersey</strong> Tourism.<br />
ABOVE BONNE NUIT BAY<br />
Public Transport<br />
Walkers find it easy to get around the<br />
island <strong>with</strong> the help of an excellent<br />
bus service. Please see the ‘Island<br />
Exploration’ <strong>Jersey</strong>file for full details of<br />
unlimited-travel Island Explorer tickets.<br />
Tel 01534 877772<br />
www.mybus.je<br />
Three of the best<br />
hotels in <strong>Jersey</strong>…<br />
but don’t just take<br />
our word for it.<br />
For more than 80 years, the Seymour<br />
family have been operating hotels<br />
exclusively in <strong>Jersey</strong> and are the largest<br />
and longest-established hotel group in<br />
the Channel Islands. Each of our three<br />
hotels has a unique character and<br />
appeal, but is underpinned by the<br />
highest standards of service that has<br />
become a hallmark of the Group.<br />
We can tell you how wonderful each hotel is<br />
and about the fabulous facilities available but<br />
we think that you should also read what our<br />
guests think. That’s why on the front page of<br />
each of our hotel’s websites you will find a<br />
link to the world’s largest travel review<br />
website, Tripadvisor® where you can read<br />
some of our guests’ opinions about their stay.<br />
Of course, not all our guests have nice things<br />
to say about us but you can be sure that<br />
they represent genuine views and are not<br />
just brochure-speak. We also use the<br />
feedback to improve our hotels for future<br />
guests. So take a look at our website to find<br />
more about each hotel. Then click on the<br />
Tripadvisor® logo and let our guests show<br />
you why we take such pride in our hotels.<br />
POMME D'OR HOTEL PORTELET HOTEL<br />
MERTON HOTEL<br />
Pomme d’Or Hotel ★★★★<br />
Channel Island Hotel of the Year 2007<br />
Located at the heart of St Helier.<br />
Tel 01534 880110<br />
email: enquiries@pommedorhotel.com<br />
www.pommedorhotel.com<br />
Special offer – 3 for 2 weekend<br />
breaks available all year<br />
Merton Hotel ★★★<br />
<strong>Jersey</strong>’s favourite family hotel<br />
Tel 01534 724231<br />
email: enquiries@mertonhotel.com<br />
www.mertonhotel.com<br />
Special offer – Free evening<br />
meals during certain periods<br />
Portelet Hotel ★★★<br />
Elegance and style <strong>with</strong> stunning views<br />
Tel 01534 741204<br />
email: enquiries@portelethotel.com<br />
www.portelethotel.com<br />
Special offer – free car hire<br />
throughout your stay<br />
www.seymourhotels.com
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