Easter weekend

Easter weekend was due to be the start of the busy summer period but it came and went without any real increase in number of guests. It also came and went without any change in weather, it was still quite cold with top temperatures under ten degrees.

Throughout the Easter weekend I worked for the hotel at a local hockey tournament selling burgers and sausages. I was given the role by the hotel manager Paul who told me as I was an Aussie I knew how to cook a barbie. I wasn't going to disagree. I stood in the freezing wind and pouring rain, so much rain in fact the tournament had to be postponed a day because the pitch was waterlogged.

Jess also arrived in Guernsey just before the Easter weekend to start work at La Barbarie, a hotel and restaurant about thirty minutes walk from Jerbourg. Jess had been working at a hotel in Devon in south England although she had not particularly enjoyed her role there.

Easter weekend did though mark the opening of most of the tourist attractions which had been closed since I arrived. The first museum I visited was the home of Guernsey's most famous former resident Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo is a famous French author, he lived in Hautaville House in St Peter Port while on exile from France. I have never read any of his novels although I am familiar with the West End production Les Miserables which is based upon his novel of the same name which he wrote while living in the house. The house has not been lived in since he left and is now ironically owned by Paris and the French consulate for the island. He made it very obvious it was his house by engraving his initials all over the house and building almost a shrine to himself. I also visited the house to admire the stunning views I had read about and true they were stunning. Unspoilt views of the harbour as well as neighbouring islands Herm and Sark.

Jess and I spent our days off in April exploring more of the sights of Guernsey. We visited The Little Chapel, it is said to be the worlds smallest church and is completly covered inside and out in porcelain making it quite a sight. We also went to Cobo Beach and Vazon Bay where the beaches are much flatter than near Jerbourg. The island also has a Castle known as Castle Cornet located just off St Peter Port along a long concrete pier.