"Rest" day...

We have a handy French booklet of cycle routes around this island. The first one takes us near our hotel through the lanes past impossibly pretty cottages and farms of Guernsey cows. Then a tougher route up and down into two valleys and a bit of an off road section through woods. Along the coast road, stunning views, with a low tide, of little rocky islands, a lighthouse and old stone towers. The latter were restored by the occupying Germans as lookout posts.
St Matthews Church, on a hill, has the grave of cyclist John le Tocq. He was a champion cyclist who was killed in an accident when training for the island championship at the end of the 19th C.





Out onto the most south westerly peninsula cars are banned, so a quiet pedal past old German gun emplacements overlooking rocky bays under turquoise seas. Oystercatchers "beep beep" as they fly past. The island works to the rhythm of the tide as the ferry comes in with the tide, and cars beetle back and forth to collect passengers, then there is quiet again.
Every time we stop to look at the route an islander will stop and ask if we want help - very kind. We manage to find more than 30 miles of lanes, all of it without any potholes, then back for an evening in the hotel watching exciting mixed-doubles tennis from Wimbledon.


Miles to date:- 2855

Location:Guernsey