Lubs: Sark was a long day..... up at 3.15am trying not to awake Steve as I stumble around the hotel room to get dressed and washed. Catch the 5am ferry from Poole (not sure why I had to be there at 4am though). After a 3hr 45 min journey arrived at Guernsey. At 10am on another ferry to Sark... is Carl Hester worth all this? Of course he is, he won an Olympic gold!
Sark is inaccesible for Steve, as is the tug boat ferry. The great thing about Sark is there are no cars, lots of horses and horse drawn carriges. I hired a mountain bike and within 2 minutes had located the golden postbox, some passers-by were kind enough to take a pic and enquire what I was doing. As I explained a broad Yorkshire accent said "when are you going to do Yorkshire.....if we were a country we would have finished 10th", and if being bigheaded were an event you'd have won another gold in that!
Anyway cycled all around the 2 square miles that is Sark (about 10 times over) before getting the 5pm ferry back to Guernsey. Sark is a lovely place, very quiet and very welcoming where the pace of life is nice and slow, I'd recommend a visit here, lots of great little restaurants/bars to eat at.
Ferry docked at Poole Harbour at 12.45am then drove home on virtually dead roads getting back to Bulkington, Warwickshire at 4am. A long day but worth it, as this was one of the postboxes that to bag it shows commitment......roll on Lossiemouth next week!!!
Sark is inaccesible for Steve, as is the tug boat ferry. The great thing about Sark is there are no cars, lots of horses and horse drawn carriges. I hired a mountain bike and within 2 minutes had located the golden postbox, some passers-by were kind enough to take a pic and enquire what I was doing. As I explained a broad Yorkshire accent said "when are you going to do Yorkshire.....if we were a country we would have finished 10th", and if being bigheaded were an event you'd have won another gold in that!
Anyway cycled all around the 2 square miles that is Sark (about 10 times over) before getting the 5pm ferry back to Guernsey. Sark is a lovely place, very quiet and very welcoming where the pace of life is nice and slow, I'd recommend a visit here, lots of great little restaurants/bars to eat at.
Ferry docked at Poole Harbour at 12.45am then drove home on virtually dead roads getting back to Bulkington, Warwickshire at 4am. A long day but worth it, as this was one of the postboxes that to bag it shows commitment......roll on Lossiemouth next week!!!
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Sark was a long day..... up at 3.15 am trying not to awake Steve as I stumble around the hotel room to get dressed and washed. Catch the 5am ferry from Poole (not sure why I had to be there at 4am though). After a 3hr 45 min journey arrived at Gurnsey. At 10am on another ferry to Sark.....is Carl Hester worth all this? Of course he is, he won an Olympic gold!
ReplyDeleteSark is inaccesible for Steve, as is the tug boat ferry. The great thing about Sark is there are no cars, lots of horses and horse drawn carriges. I hired a mountain bike and within 2 minutes had located the golden post box, some passers by were kind enough to take a pic and enquire what I was doing. As I explained a broad Yorkshire accent said " when are you going to do yorkshire.....if we were a country we would have finished 10th". and if being bigheaded were an event you'd have won another gold in that!
Anyway cycled all around the 2 squaremiles that is Sark (about 10 times over) before getting the 5pm ferry back to Gurnnsey.
Sark is a lovely place, very quiet and very welcoming where the pace of life is nice and slow, I'd reccommend a visit here, lots of great little restaurants/bars to eat at.
Ferry docked at Poole Harbour at 12.45 am then drove home on virtually dead roads getting back to B ulkington, Warwickshire at 4am. A longday but worth it, as this was one of thepostboxes thatto bag it shows commitment......roll on Lossiemouth next week!!!