Today we slept in a little, got up, dressed and Pete cooked
us an English breakfast of sausages, bacon, eggs and toast. It was delicious. Actually, I can’t eat the English sausages,
which are apparently really good – they all have bread crumbs in them. But the eggs, bacon and toast were wonderful
(I brought some gluten free bread with me).
Alex and I took a little walk with the dogs and I wish that
I had brought my camera. It was so
beautiful and we ran into one of her neighbors driving a little wagon pulled by
a Shetland pony. But alas, those
pictures shall remain forever only in my head.
Afterwards we got on cycles (or bikes, as we call them in
America) and cycled down into town and on the coast. There was a little food festival going on,
but it was much smaller than the advertisement led us to believe, so we didn’t
stay long. It was a glorious bike ride,
though. It was a beautiful warm and
sunny day, but not hot, just warm. There
was a great sea breeze and it was mostly down hill.
This is along the way. The castle in the background is one of 3 (I think...) castles on the island.
Both Alex and Pete said that they have the 2nd largest tide in the world.
When we turned to go back, the first part was mostly flat
but now we were cycling into that strong sea breeze that had pushed on our way
before. It made a big difference to my
unexercised legs and lungs. But I made
it to the car show that was also happening in Jersey this weekend. We walked around the car show and picked out
our favorite cars. I chose I vintage
Jaguar in yellow. I can’t remember what
year it was, but mostly I liked the yellow color.
Alex had to go call into a meeting for the Nauvoo Pageant so
Pete and I cycled to Gourey Castle. This is different from the castle in the picture above. This
was quite a long cycle for a girl who never cycles, again into the wind, but
not too bad as far as hills go. I was
cycling as hard as I could and poor Pete had to keep looking back and slowing
down so that he could at least still see me.
We stopped once for a few minutes at a great picture spot, which was
great because I was ready for a rest.
Then we continued on to the castle.
When we got to the castle Pete said that we cycled around about half of
the Island.
The view of the castle grounds from the top terrace.
The view of Jersey from the top terrace - looking away from the ocean.
The view from the top terrace - looking out to the ocean.
The castle is a medieval castle and was quite
fascinating. Different than Hampton
Court, older and more rough seeming, crude maybe a good word for it. From the top of the castle you can see a
large part of Jersey Island, from one side and from the other side you can see
the coast of Normandy, France. We are
only 10 miles off the coast of France.
You pay to get into the castle but then you just go where you want so it
was a lovely little jaunt through the castle.
After seeing the castle we were all starving because all we
had eaten for lunch was a bit of Jersey cream ice cream. Thankfully, I didn’t have to cycle home
because it would have been all up hill and I was exhausted from the cycling I
had done already. Alex cycled home after
her meeting, got the car and met us at the castle. We through the bikes in the back and drove
home.
After dinner we went to the home of some of the other church
members and watched a show called Eurovision Song Contest. It is an annual event where all the countries
of Europe send a representative to this song competition and then Europe votes
for a winner. The winning country hosts
the competition next year. There are some
rules though. I’m not sure what they
are, but it seems to be that they can’t be professionals. Anyway, it was a really interesting look into
European pop culture. Sweden won, if you
are wondering.
It was a fantastic day!
Exactly what I needed. And that
bike ride was a great preparation for Southern France.
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