Thursday is house cleaner day, so we tend to schedule our outings for later in the day, as the cleaner comes late afternoon and stays for 2 hours. Yesterday, we decided to do the portion of the St Saviour walk that we hadn’t done before, which is the very narrow bit that runs to the coast.
The book of parish walks that we have been using states that each parish was required to have a bit of seafront access for the collection of vraic (seaweed) for the fields. St Saviour has the smallest stretch of shoreline, the Dicq, squeezed between St Helier and St Clement.
Our walk started along the busy road near our house. When we could (as sidewalks abruptly end here), we switched to the side with a bit more protection from the road.
Ironically, for the portion of the walk that was dubbed “more urban,” as it goes into the town center, we began our descent into the town of St Helier via a country road with both rural and urban views.
One of the sites that we wanted to see on the walk was Howard Davis Park which is used for some town festivals. The park is on land acquired by entrepreneur TB Davis where his boyhood home used to sit. He demolished his former home after acquiring the land and created a park named in memory of his son who was killed in WW I.
from TB Davis’ yacht, The Westward
Walking out of the park, we began to make our way to the coast.
(chapels to serve those living far from their main parish church)
built in the mid-19th century
(total of 100 meters)
by Victoria Hugo when he lived in St Clement
as an exile from France from 1852-55.
Having reached the end of our walk, we headed back to the Five Oaks Pub near the house for a drink before heading home to a cleaner house.
India beat Australia in the semi-final
of the Women’s Cricket World Cup
How can it be that we leave early Monday to fly back to the States?! We have definitely enjoyed Jersey, just like we did Guernsey, and would love to visit again.
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