guernsey

visiting the channel islands was a first, after an abortive secretescape deal to jersey last year. i'm still sore that they overpromised, then called to cancel (claimed they were oversubscribed) after we'd paid in full. what nonsense. word on the ground is that there are two reasons to relocate to guernsey. either you're dodgy, or you're very dodgy. and a certain tax inspector had to be restrained from referring to the clients as 'the perpetrators'. but don't quote me on that! 

also have a classmate from jersey whose blood tests from the jersey ('local') labs went through but still pays international fees. what a cheap way of milking someone for money! and my mobile service provider did not cover me in guernsey, despite it being UK! what nerve. 

anyway, territorial and telco woes aside, guernsey was charming in its own way. all i wanted to do was to go on a cliff walk. but that fell through. chatted with the fitness instructor later and was even more FOMO that we didn't see the island from the sea, despite anchoring at st peter's port. because she's always had the 'in' from the other crew, she's always been short-cut-ed to the best way to see the port, which was by speedboat in this case.