Hilary's Adventure: Flight to Guernsey and Herm Island

Today we are leaving London for a lovely channel island of Guernsey. I have relatives that live out there so we are off to visit them and have the closest to a family Christmas on this side of the world.

So it was up and out of the hostel at 6am for the first tube train to Victoria. Our flight was at 8.45am from Gatwick, so it was going to be touch and go to make it threw check in, security and be at the boarding gate before it closes. From Victoria it was just a matter of getting on a train to Gatwick Airport Train station.

We made it through security to then find out that our flight was closing. So off we ran to try and make it there before they closed the gates. I forgot how big airports can be so we ran for about 10min before we got to the gate. Once at the gate we found that the plane hadn’t started boarding and we had to take a seat. We sat for about 15min before they started boarding. If I knew that I would not have run and saved my energy for later.

Once on the plane it was an easy 50min flight. I fell asleep just about when I sat in my seat. Kyle was fascinated with the plane. He had never been on a plane that was that small and was powered by 2 propellers. The plane probably sat about 30+ people but our flight had only about 15 people on it.

Once at Guernsey we had to wait to be unloaded. The airport had quite a few sickies so they didn’t quite have enough ground crew to unload us as we arrived. After the wait we unloaded and Tony picked us up and drove us back to his place.

At their place we were informed that a nearby island of Herm was doing free ferries to promote their gift shop and pub. It looked like a good idea. So we made some sandwiches and headed off for the boat.

The boat ride was only 20min so we were there in no time. Once we got there we went looking for the gift shops to see if we could get post cards to send home. We thought it would be funny to get a post card from Herm Island.

After finding the post cards we decided to explore the island. Luckily it wasn’t raining just cold and windy, so after a while walking we warmed up. We managed to do half the island and made it back to the pub so we decided it was time for a drink. Just as we walked in the pub the heavens opened and it was a thunder and lightning storm. It was great timing on our part. We stayed for about an hour. Just as we were leaving the pub it stopped raining so we went off and walked the other half of the island.

We both had enough about 30min before the last boat so we headed back to the pub to get warm and wait till it was time to head off to the dock.

The boat back was a bit rockier then going to the island. Tony was standing there wait for the boat and for us to disembark to take us back home. Once back at their house we had a shower to warm up and change into clean clothes to head out for dinner. We went off to Helen and Tony son’s place for a very nice dinner then bed.