By Douglas Kruger AT least once a year, you should leave the rock. So conventional wisdom tells us. Go to France. Go to London. Go on a spelunking expedition to Belize – just get off the Island before stir-craziness sets in and you start volunteeri.
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The Atlantic Hotel and Ocean Restaurant’s executive chef, Will Holland, explains to Emily Moore how his Taste Jersey menu is ‘a real showcase of local ingredients and a real exploration of the Island’
FOR most people, a stro.
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The Atlantic Hotel and Ocean Restaurant’s executive chef, Will Holland, explains to Emily Moore how his Taste Jersey menu is ‘a real showcase of local ingredients and a real exploration of the Island’
FOR most people, a stro.
Guernsey, the second-largest Channel Island, is 30 miles west of Normandy. It opened its doors to UK travellers on July 1 and is blissfully lockdown-free , Nigel Tisdall discovers.
For an island of just 45-square-miles that is mere spitting distance from the shores of mainland France, Jersey has often played an outsized role in British history.
During the English Civil War, it was Jersey that offered sanctuary on two occasions to King Charles II after the execution of his father, Charles I, by Oliver Cromwell’s parliamentarians. In 1649, Charles II was proclaimed King of England in St Helier’s Royal Square.
Charles II’s son, James, later granted the island’s governor, George De Carteret, a vast tract of land in North America which, named for the island, would become the state of New Jersey.