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The best beach bars in the world? Las Tapitas at Petit Bôt and Fermain Bay

Within an hour of landing on Guernsey for our summer holiday, this was the view that greeted as we strolled from our cliff-top hotel, the Bon Port on Guernsey’s rugged south coast to the small but...

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Eating in and around St Peter Port: Bon Port, Auberge and Boathouse

A quick round-up of 3 places to eat in and around St Peter Port. We were staying at the fantastically situated Bon Port hotel on Guernsey’s rocky southern coast perched on a cliff-top overlooking...

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Three days at the White House Hotel on Herm

This was our second visit to Herm and the White House Hotel.  Last year (summer 2008) we were newbies and booked a whole week here.  Herm is only one and a half miles long and, even with two daytrips...

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Two days on Sark at La Sablonnerie

Sark is a mysterious and rather magical island.  If Herm with its sparkling turquoise sea has a rather jolly Kirrin Bay feel, then Sark is just a shade darker with its rocky cliffs and inky blue waters...

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Guernsey: the Lobster Saga part 1

When we visited Guernsey the previous year (summer 2008) I had imagined eating spanking-fresh seafood daily, acquired after haggling with gnarled fisherman clad in salt-encrusted Guernsey sweaters down...

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Guernsey: the Lobster Saga Part 2

The Big Day had dawned: I was going to prepare (euphemism of course for kill) my first lobster and then prepare the classic dish of Homard a l’Américaine for the very first time. I planned to follow...

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Battle of the bakers: exhibiting at Guernsey’s North Show

I’ve cherished the ambition for a number of years now of entering some home-made produce into an agricultural show.  Being an urban dweller, opportunities to visit rural shows are thin on the ground,...

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Where to eat on Guernsey’s west coast: Vazon Bay Café, Crabby Jack’s & Fleur...

Three very different places to eat if you find yourselves on Guernesy’s west coast.  We were on holiday staying at the Vazon Bay Apartments just across the road from the beach so became regular...

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Guernsey: Hedge Veg, Fenella Maddison’s Fort Grey cheese and a recipe for...

One charming aspect of visiting Guernsey, the island of a thousand greenhouses, is discovering the local custom of “hedge veg”.  Keen amateur gardeners sell their surplus produce in their front gardens...

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Fenella’s cheese is Delicious

Browsing May’s issue of Delicious magazine on a train journey recently I was thrilled to see Fenella Madison’s cheese featured in Debra Waters’ article on the food of Guernsey (p106 in the June issue)....

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