Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Guernsey

Last week I went to Guernsey, by Ferry. It took about 6 hours to get there, and I got the Ferry at Poole.
Poole... Possibly the worst layed out port ever. The place where you actual board is through houses.Yes, no main road straight to the check in and boarding. Instead you have to weave through small roads, with goodness know how many other cars trying to get to the same place and then even more going elsewhere. And the road signs just stop. One minute you know where your going the next you simply don't. After getting on the Ferry getting across the channel (with no Wi-Fi on board!), we got off onto Guernsey, and drove straight down the road to the town, simple. Now to find the house I was staying at. Spent about an hour and a half crawling around small roads, trying to find road names. But realising you have to go half way down the road to actually find the sign with it on. I stopped to ask some guy on a bike how looked like a local to find the street he had no idea where it was. So carried on looking for the road, in the end turned on my phone, oh and you'd have thought that Guernsey was in the UK so theres no roaming charges quite the opposite, so after paying £30 a month and £99 for the iPhone I have to pay £3 a MB to use the mobile internet never mind calls and texts, payed four punds to download the map and get my location and find the way to the house.
Getting there it was great, small but perfectly organised the rooms weren't wierd shapes. Anyway this is boring this bit. Luckily they had Wi Fi (you may have guessed I can't live without the internet), but I probably went over their bandwidth so I'm expecting a bill for that next month. But I did fix their TV, have a go at their Sky+ box, and laptop. So during the week I went to the beach, I got sunburnt quite bad. Played Crazy Golf twice (though it wasn't very 'crazy') had the nicest pancakes ever, at a small shop called La Creperie (or something like that) in St Peter Port's town. Saw some amazing views, and went to 2 museums which weren't bad. Planned to go back on an overnight ferry to Portsmouth, but as it got closer on the morning I was leaving I moved it a 12PM(lunch) Ferry, and got to Poole in about 3 or 4 hours. At Poole got off the ferry went about 100 meters and then was in a traffic jam, that went on for about 40 minutes and got less than half a mile (if not less than a quarter) (this is through those houses I saying about earlier), finally it just dissapeared  for no reason at all. Got home about 8. And stayed up till about 1.

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