On Jersey with Panasonic GF-1 and 20mm.
With the dark of Autumn upon us the family escaped to Jersey for half term. A plane with old fashioned propellers struggled through high winds to deposit us on the tax haven. We decamped to the excellent L’Horizon with views over the magnificent St Brelades Bay.
The only problem then was to find things to do between eating. Each day started with that most dangerous of things, the all you can eat hotel breakfast. Thankfully by the second day we realised lunch could be dropped in favour of cake and coffee. Though this admirable restraint led to more greed in the evening as our appetites returned with some force. The scales wisely hid on our return and frankly I don’t much want to see them either.
The tide came in the tide went out while dogs walkers promenaded on the beach and armed with my Panasonic GF-1 and 20mm I snapped away. The sea and the sky should have their own TV show with a guest appearance by light and you have a winner.
We revisited old haunts like La Hogue Bie a neolithic tomb with a medieval church built upon it. Everywhere on Jersey evidence of the German visitors of the 1940s abound even on this site. Here there is an underground command bunker with the faces and stories of those unfortunate enough to be brought to the island as slave labour. James found it quite upsetting, the youngest victims being 16 year olds from Eastern Europe. Horrible history of a different kind was on offer here.
We walked the beaches in the teeth of a gale sometimes but in the main the weather was kind. A fab break and here are the pictures to prove it.
Processed in Lightroom to give them a vintage look which appears to mean a lot of yellow.
