Hope you like the first one in this 2015 series. I could do a dozen slideshows about St Brelade on its own!
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12 Jersey Parishes – January 2015 St Brelade
25 Sunday Jan 2015
Posted in Jersey
Back On The Rock
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I love the Fisherman’s Chapel Roy, and Portelet Bay looks beautiful.
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Thanks Jenny – both are jewels in the island’s crown.
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Yay! I love Roy’s Jersey tours! Great photos. So many beautiful old buildings, which we don’t get to see here in the States. Le sigh…
St. Brelade’s Bay Hotel looks like an amazing spot to hang out.
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Britt, Jersey is a place that is so underrated – most notably by the locals. If they would open their eyes and see and feel the beauty, the history, then maybe they would be less cantankerous. And most of those that leave find their ay back eventually 🙂
Personally I’ve never visited St Brelade’s Bay Hotel – it was one of the many commandeered by the Germans during the Occupation. It’s very nice now apparently.
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Well, I know where I want to stay when I come visit. 🙂
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It’s a beautiful place Roy, I loved to see some of the history and the connections with Tess.
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Hi Andrea and thank you. Yes indeed, St Brelade was the inspiration for the Tess stories.
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Such a beautiful place, Roy. Thanks for sharing. I feel as though I’ve been on a mini vacation. 🙂
I thought I’d let you know that you’ve inspired me to start running again. I logged forty one miles this past week.
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41 miles :-O You’re obviously a professional Jill! I’ve rarely got to that mileage. Maybe you’ll reveal more sometime.
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Oh Roy! How evocative.
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Thanks Jean, no doubt you’ll recognise one or two of those places. I’m looking forward to doing the next one now – St Clement I think.
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Roy, I recognise practically all of them. It’s a great idea. Know you have at least one eager waiter out here!
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Lovely! I spent many an evening in the the Old Court house 😉
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Haha! You were obviously one of the yachty crowd Cathy. Us ordinary people stuck to the Tenby and the Trafalgar 🙂
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Nope 😀 Just a fan of Bergerac!
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Really nice pictures, Roy. I liked learning about the connection to Newfoundland, where I briefly lived some years ago. Everyone wanted a piece of the cod fishery in its heyday, all of which would only lead to its eventual collapse which remains to this day.
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Thanks Janna. Yes it was a thriving industry in its day, and supported a big shipbuilding industry in Jersey. I gather that, as well as the Channel Islands, many other European countries still have little enclaves around the Newfoundland coast.
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a beautiful place Roy.
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It sure is Cybele, but unappreciated by too many of its inhabitants.
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PS Roy do let me know when you get epub. I would love to read on my reader- but I have begun reading and it’s great!!
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Yes, still in progress Cybele. Pleased you’ve enjoyed it so far 🙂
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Roy, you’ve missed one very important house, the old white Noirmont farm house, if you visit in May they have a roadside stall selling new potatoes. Such a shame seeing it unkempt And just used for storage, Jersy needs to get its act together and restore these old places so they become an asset to the island and not an eyesore.
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Not sure I know that one. Indeed a pity if an old property is being let go, but if it was of architectural importance I’m sure it would have a listing. Can you say exactly where it is at Noirmont? Thanks for the comment 🙂
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I loved that picture of High Street. So picturesque.
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Thanks Julie – yes, very much an ‘Olde Tyme’ little street harking back to the days of Jersey’s old seafaring merchants who lived there.
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A great sense of Jersey here… cobble stones, lovely beaches, stone buildings. Portlet manor does seem a bit run down but sometimes demolition benefits developers more than a community. Fran said to me recently “You don’t follow Roy!?” Now I follow, though I’m terribly undisciplined in looking at my reader. Also thanks for the link to the wonderful Irish mythological tale for valentines. More true about love, than merely roses and chocolates.
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Hi Bruce and welcome. St Brelade was an easy start. I’ll have to work harder with some of the smaller parishes. Portelet Hotel at least is to revert to a private dwelling (whence it originally came) rather than an apartment block, so that’s a blessing.
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Ah, good news on the Portelet. I missed the nuance of the post being just of one parish of Jersesy. Looking forward to some of the others.
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What a wonderful slide show, Roy. I recognized many of the places from my visit. I don’t remember the church with 14th c. frescoes–I bet there’s a story there! Thanks so much for sharing this.
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Hi Naomi! Yes, St Brelade was an easy start – glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the Fisherman’s Chapel wall paintings were only uncovered last century which has allowed them to be restored and preserved properly.
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