Passengers travelling from France and Jersey this summer have the luxury of sailing on a brand new boat. The vessel was specially commissioned for the Normandy to Channel Island route by Manche Iles Express and has been named Granville in honour of her home port. The trip from Jersey to Sark takes just less than an hour and the new boat has an outside area that passengers can enjoy en…
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Sark’s village centre was the place to be this Sunday when visitors and residents flocked to enjoy the huge variety of wares on offer at the Avenue Summer Market. There were all sort of stalls to choose from selling homemade produce such as jams, cakes and pickles as well as plants, jewellery, bric-a-brac, pottery, paintings and craft items. Sark School Choir opened the event with some of their new songs…
Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe, one of Britian’s most knowledgeable Bronze Age archaeologists, is in Sark this month leading a two-week long dig with a team of eight experts from the UK and Guernsey. The main excavations have been taking place in fields near the mill in an area known to have been a long-term settlement around three thousand years ago. As well as stone spindle whorls and large numbers of…
Taste of Sark Week is Here! Saturday 14th – Saturday 21st June There is a wealth of wonderful food available on Sark thanks to the island’s cafés, restaurants and tea gardens but for those who love good food the third week in June is the very best time to be here. This is Taste of Sark week, a seven-day celebration of the very best local cuisine…
The Sunfish is named after their habit of ‘sunbathing’ on the surface of the sea. These ocean wanderers can grow to be several metres across but feed almost exclusively on jellyfish. They are native to tropical seas but are occasionally seen around the British Isles although usually much later in the summer. George Guille recalls seeing a basking shark: “The sea was really calm,” explains George, “so at first I noticed just…
Ornithologists Paul and Catherine Veron were in Sark recently for the first of their two annual visits to assess the island’s seabird population. The visit was timed to ring the chicks of Herring and Greater Black-backed Gulls and the couple will return in July to ring Lesser Black-backed Gull chicks that breed a little later. The work is part of a long-term study into seabird numbers around the Channel Islands…
This week sees the return of the archaeology team from Oxford University led by Sir Barry Cunliffe as they continue their investigations into Sark’s fascinating ancient history. This is the tenth season that the team have been here and to celebrate their decade of digging an exhibition of the artwork inspired by their excavations and finds has been mounted at the Sark Visitor Centre. Local artist Rosanne Guille, who studied…
3,000 miles, 111 Gold Post Boxes, 27 days, 2 cyclists, 3 charities – Two intrepid cyclists have completed day 3 of a 3,000 mile 27 day trip to visit all 111 Gold Post Boxes from London 2012’s Olympic & Paralympic Games as well as over 20 venues used. Chris Britton of Bristol and Lucas Meagor of Kingston upon Hull will be supporting three charities – ParalympicsGB, Tree of Hope and…
Members of La Société Sercquaise gathered recently in one of Sark’s oldest buildings to celebrate its restoration. The Elizabethan building is part of the Manoir property and, thanks to an agreement with the owner, it has been restored by La Société who began the project in the winter of 2012. (The building is opposite the Visitor Centre.) Discovery of the remains of granite cider press confirmed the theory that the…
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