Anyone been to Jersey?

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I really feel like I need to go somewhere a bit different for a holiday. And also maybe a bit warmer, so perhaps not the western isles of Scotland in spring (although I do love that part of the world). But also we are not desperately keen to go away in summer, when the weather here is nice and we have lots to do at home. And of course we are also tied to school holidays and to other weekend commitments. So we need to either go soonish, before summer here, or else plan something for October half term, but then we ran into the problem that the rest of my family all need their passports renewed this year, and for most places you need at least 6 months left on your passport so that basically means we need to renew now if we hope to go anywhere in 2023! And the passport office is currently in the news for all the wrong reasons, so if we send the passports away to be renewed, we may not get the new ones back in time to go anywhere. It all seemed rather too difficult, but then I hit on the idea of the Channel Islands! They are British Crown Dependencies, so no passports required (as long as we can produce some other acceptable form of ID). They are just off the coast of France so hopefully might be a bit warmer. We can get there on a ferry, which is all part of the excitement for the girls, and means we don’t have to fly which is good for our consciences. It’s somewhere we’ve never been, and seems to have the basics we hoped for – beaches and rockpools, perhaps even sites suitable for introductory snorkelling; history; wildlife and scenic natural places, and the famous Jersey Zoo (Gerald Durrell was one of my childhood heroes!). Of course we don’t get the novelty of attempting to speak a different language, but you can’t have everything. So has anyone else been to Jersey (I’m thinking particularly of @flapiz here of course) and do you have any recommendations? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.