Boxing Day

 Today is Boxing Day. It is normally the day to relax and catch up with the family you didn't see on Christmas day. Most of the house didn't get out of bed till after 10.30am. We awoke to find that Helen had gone to the shops and bought croissants for breakfast. Just what we all wanted after the big lunch/dinner yesterday was a light breakfast with tea or coffee. Kyle spent the time telling people off for putting butter on their croissants because in his option croissants are made with butter. Most people ignored him and had butter and jam with their croissants.

After breakfast we all piled into the cars and headed down to the cliffs for a nice cliff walk. Most people decided that it was a good idea to start the burning off process of Christmas lunch on Boxing Day. Tony led the way up and over the cliffs. We came across some old battlement from the Napoleonic wars and the first and second world war. They were quite interesting to walk around and be part off. They had a few disused cannons that they fired at ships in the past. Further along we came across Tony’s mother’s house and the beach he used to take the family too with their boat. Tony was saying that the tide in Guernsey can be up to 10m in the high spring tides. So were we were standing overlooking the bay, rocks and beach the water would come up to there about twice a year.

At the bottom in the bay on the beach we parted company with the diehard walkers. Tony called for the taxi service of Helen to come and pick up Greg, Me, Kyle, Noriko and Michael. We had had enough and wanted to eat some lunch and chill out for the afternoon. There wasn’t enough room for us all so Greg went in to boot and had fun rolling round. On the way back Helen took us on the scenic room. She took us round to where the others were going to walk and further. Once we got back Helen had pulled everything out from Christmas lunch and more for lunch. I was hungry so I didn’t wait for the others. If I had waited there would have been nothing left.

For the rest of the afternoon Kyle and I packed our bags and played games. We were due to leave on a 6pm flight so we left the house at about 5pm. It was sad to go and start the back packing journey but we will be back.

The flight was uneventful except it left 10min early. Who ever heard of transport leaving early? Only in Guernsey. Once back to Gatwick we made our way to London. Once at London we discovered that the underground was having a strike. So we couldn’t get back to Trish and Michaels easily. The strike also meant that for some reason the machines for tickets were not working. So we couldn’t top up our Oyster cards to get on the bus. You can buy bus tickets but they only take coin and we both didn’t have enough coin to buy the tickets. We spent the next little while trying to find someone who would swap some notes for coin. Once we found coin we had to find the bus. Luckily I looked up which bus to take before leaving Guernsey so we just had to find the bus. We found the bus and jumped on. We managed to get seats up the top at the front of a red double decker. We both hadn’t done the bus service before so it was fun to be on the bus. The bus took about 30min to get us to Trish and Michael’s. Once there we dumped our stuff and just chilled out for the rest of the night. We were both tired after the travelling.

View from the battlements

The black up the side is how high the water gets daily in the bay

The battlements