The seabird breeding season is in full swing here on Sark, which means that our puffins have returned from their life far out at sea to breed on L’Etac, an islet off Little Sark. The birds rear a single chick, called a puffling, in a burrow and by now one or other of the parents will be keeping the egg warm until it hatches in June. The best way to…
Come and stay at the second most exclusive address on Sark. Neighbouring La Seigneurie, the home of the Seigneurs of Sark since 1730, La Moinierie Hotel encompasses all that is unique about our very special island. As Sark’s sole resident’s only hotel our beautiful grounds are here for the enjoyment of you and your fellow guests. A secret short cut via La Moinierie bank of La Seigneurie ponds leads you…
Bookings are now being taken for the exciting workshops in Sark’s first ever arts and crafts festival, Creative Sark. You can try your hand at all sorts of skills with local artisans from stage sword fighting and bee-keeping to watercolour painting and weaving. Visiting creatives are offering an enticing variety of textile workshops and there are also tasty cookery classes as well as yoga, massage and gong bathing sessions. Many…
The seabird breeding season is in full swing here on Sark and this year seems to be particularly good for guillemots. These beautiful chocolate-brown and white birds belong to the auk family, along with puffins and razorbills that also breed here. Over the last three years they have established a new colony on rocks off the east coast as well as their main breeding site on Les Autelets on the…
