Channel Islands
The British Riviera
The British Riviera
The Channel Islands screen the highlights from England and France. Britain’s southernmost specks drive on the left yet adore oysters and Champagne. Jersey's Royal Yacht Club (one of the world's oldest) serves duck à l'orange and steak tartare, alongside bacon sandwiches. Sail to the best of both worlds on the second-largest Channel Island of Guernsey. Visit Victor Hugo’s house, then hit Wheadon's Gin distillery. All just a few miles from France.
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Reasons to Visit Channel Islands
The Channel Islands are the sunniest destination in Britain. Soft adventures shine all summer, including swimming with seals and paddleboarding between islands. Not your cup of tea? Try coasteering along the two largest islands of Jersey and Guernsey. The sport involves leaping across gullies, scaling cliffs and riding waves inside caves. Before swimming on to the next challenge. You’ve earned that hot oil massage back onboard.
The Channel Islands have one of the largest tidal reaches in the world. Postcard-sized beaches expand to the dimensions of a football field at low tide. The island of Jersey literally doubles in size twice each day. The beach beach? Try St Ouen's Bay on Jersey’s sandy west coast. Locals call it Five Mile Road as golden sand ribbons across the horizon. Tides can be fierce but the surf is world class.
The Channel Islands have combined a Norman language with British laws for 750 years. On Jersey you can speak Jèrriais to sip a caud (warm) cup of tea, on a tchaîse (chair), in a pub gardîn (garden). Don't worry about speaking Auregnais on tiny Alderney - a peaceful island with 50 miles of walking trials. Alderney’s last native speaker died in 1960.
Bobbing six miles north-east of Jersey are Les Écréhous. At the low tide the three largest islands, with their abandoned fishers’ hunts, are joined by dozens more uninhabited islets, with big bananas of sand in between. What to do? Go British with beach cricket, or carve your own Wimbledon bat-and-ball court in the sand. Try creating an Olympic race track around the islands. Your footprints will be washed away by dawn.
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