Guernsey – Thursday
Diverted by puss wanting a saucer of milk. Walked from our hotel to St Pierre Park Hotel in the centre of the island for their three courses Tennerfest meal at £10. Very good value, and very well presented, but spoilt by somewhat erratic service and waitresses whose first language obviously wasn’t English, Patois or French. Coffee being served 10 minutes before the desert course was one example.
After lunch walked back to Vazon Bay via Cobo. En route we passed by the Guernsey telephone museum. As usual it was closed at this time or year. As we were leaning over the gate, admiring a submarine cable with repeater, one of the volunteers who works there was entering and invited us in to view the exhibits. We had visited before in 1993, and were very pleased and impressed by the amount of work which had been done to enhance the displays in the interim period. We must of spent a good hour there, and had a very good explanation of the workings of the museum by the volunteer. Ex-BT, he had worked in the Guernsey Telecoms industry since the 1960s.
Walked about 8 miles.