Why a holiday in Jersey could end up being your first family trip
With this Channel Isle back up and running – and opening to the UK on April 26 – a trip to Jersey could be your first chance to get away
There are plenty of activities for families – and friends – to do
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Itching to fasten your seat belt for take-off and disembark to the leisurely lunches, balmy beach days and plush hotel linens of a proper normal holiday? You needn’t bide your time ’til May: on Monday the Bailiwick of Jersey reopens to UK tourists, and with the island pretty much back to business as usual (and requiring visitors from UK Green Zones to quarantine for a mere 12 hours), you could be sipping sauvignon blanc inside a chic restaurant (that’s right, inside), checking in to a seaside hotel and working on your tan – sans mask – before you know it.
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Whether boiled and slathered with butter or fried then served with crab mayonnaise, the Jersey Royal is alwys delicious.
As ashamed as I am to admit it, the entire island of Jersey birthplace of Lillie Langtry, home-in-exile of Charles II and Victor Hugo, festival haven and home to more than 100,000 residents can be summed up in three words: cows and potatoes.
Yes, I know, I know; I’m an ill-informed idiot with fodder for brains and nothing but lunch on his mind. However, I really don’t mean to be rude, but rather to offer the highest compliment. For this Channel isle has not only given us a magnificent, world-conquering mooer renowned for the lush richness of its milk but some of the very finest tubers on earth, too.
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Udderly disgusting
“Pause and ask yourself where would you rather be right now?” says an email with a tad too much upwards inflection for Feedback’s taste, sent on by reader Barry Cash. We do, coming to the pandemic-weary conclusion “anywhere”.
This answer is apparently correct, as it also embraces the British crown dependency of Jersey. “This season, we’re celebrating all things edible and home-grown, so read on and discover a flavour of Jersey,” the email from that island’s tourist board burbles on. A brief discussion of the merits of Jersey Royal potatoes and freshly caught local seafood follows, before things take an unexpected turn. “Still hungry?”, we read, and then, “WIN a fresh pat picked from our local fields.”
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