St. Brelade, Jersey

I love bank holiday weekends but they always throw me off, hence the lack of post last night...

I've literally been so busy of late that my posts are half-assed anyway which is why I tend to just post reviews.

But, I did promise more on our time in Jersey and when better to sit down and write a proper post than on a bank holiday Monday?

We'd agreed that this time round we would get up early every day so we could fit as much in as possible (when we went to Oxford it kind of all went pear-shaped cause we overslept! Which also has to do with my weird thing where I cannot for the life of me sleep in a hotel. Strange, but I managed in this one!!).

So we started our day off nice and early, down for the breakfast and then out of the hotel between 10 and 11.

Before heading for St. Brelade, we quickly ran across the road to look at the beach again - we fell in love with it.

After taking a few - hundred - snaps, we took the car and made our way to St. Brelade Bay. It was absolutely stunning. The sun was out and I don't think I've ever seen the sea that blue before. Because it was early March as well it was so quiet and peaceful.

We wandered along the beach drinking in as much of the view as possible stopping in a tourist shop to by some fudge (they are very proud of their Jersey cows so really advertise it in all possible products!)

Next we drove to a golf country club (unbeknownst to us at the time - I just thought it was a regular golf place) in which we went on the driving range (I was so so awful) before having lunch at Rocco's.

Adeel took every opportunity to have steak as possible it seemed, but I stuck with a ham and cheese toasty as we had plans for a date night dinner that evening.

Another thing we also noted on was how nice everyone was. Nobody was in any hurry to get anywhere. The fastest speed you could go was 40mph, and everyone was just so polite and conversational - it was wonderful.

I think we had a short break at the hotel after that - somewhat of a siesta if you like - before heading to an arcade. We literally played air hockey and a shooting game, Adeel won a stuffed toy on a claw machine and we left.

We had a bit of down time before getting ready for dinner. We'd asked the receptionist at the time for a recommendation and she kindly booked us a reservation with her friend's restaurant The Paper Fig.

Now, I haven't put any photos in of the restaurant or food because I want to write a full post on it. It was just perfect. And that's all I'm saying about it in this post!

After we returned from our heavenly culinary experience we dipped into the pool once more before hitting the sheets...

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St. Helier, Jersey

My God, it has been the busiest of weekends again!

I don't know how people are constantly keeping themselves busy, I'm so exhausted it's unbelievable.

Anyway, I promised posts on Jersey so I've decided to split them up sort of by day/location.

St. Helier was where we stayed, there will be a subsequent post on St. Brelade and then a standalone post for a restaurant review as it deserves a special mention.

For today though, St. Helier.

The flight from Gatwick is only 45-50 minutes. By the time the captain tells you to take your seatbelt off, half the flight is over. It was funny because Adeel got up to pee and as there was a queue he didn't actually get to go because the captain announced not long later that seatbelts were to be refastened!

It was a very windy, rainy day when we set off. Our flight was at around 9 in the morning so we landed near 10 and the airport is so tiny in Jersey and we only had hand luggage that we were literally out straightaway (except for the minor wait for the rental car).

Oh my God, just the drive to the hotel was amazing. Jersey is such a beautiful island!

However, we did have a few hours to kill before we could check in to the hotel so we left the car there and got a pointer towards the town centre.

Wandering through the town at a leisurely pace was great. We eyed up some beautiful properties advertised - dreaming only of course - before grabbing a bite to eat. Burger King was our one and only naughty choice and probably the worst of the food we had (not a single bad meal for the entire trip!)

We meandered back to the hotel by which time we could checkin and found ourselves in what seemed like an upgraded room. We originally booked the budget room (with a warning that you could hear the swimming pool pump). BUT, we were on the second floor, the room was massive and not a single noise could be heard from the pool. It was amazing.

We had a somewhat planned, somewhat improvised nap as we'd been up so early, before heading out for a lovely walk along the beach.

With clouds a-brewing and a roll of thunder in the distance, we quickly scarpered back to the hotel for dinner in the bar. I think Adeel had a burger and chips and I had scampi and chips.

The portions were massive, I definitely could not finish it all. After a half hour or so we decided to test out the pool facilities which was a nice way to end our first day in Jersey.

Climbing between those fresh white sheets after was equally as perfect.

More to come soon...