May 24, 2015
Saint Peter Port Habor with Castle Cornet
Town Church, Saint Peter Port. My 2nd Great-grandfather, William Langlois, was baptized here. I talked to a member of the church about where the graveyard was, and he said the old one by the church has buildings built on the site. I also found out that the Guernsey pronunciation of the name is "Long lay" In Jersey the pronunciation is the French version "Long wah". The Guernsey language was their own form of French.
Town Church shown next to the tavern.
Saint Peter Port harbor and walkway
Hedge Veg: Guernsey's honesty stalls
Codiing machine in the German Occupation Museum. This was used by the Germans to send their messages in code. Unknown to them, the British were intercepting their messages and deciphering the code.
World War II radio
Guernsey cows on Guernsey Island
The Little Chapel: Quite an over the top chapel decorated with broken china plates and cups built by a monk almost entirely by himself. Interesting!
German Underground Hospital. The German's occupied Guernsey for five years from 1940-1945. It took them over 3 years to dig out this hospital and ammunition storage area. They only used it for a total of nine months and only three months as a hospital for the wounded German soldiers from the Normandy invasion.
Castle Cornet: The castle on the Saint Peter Port pier.
Scenes from ouir six mile hike along the north coast of Guernsey.
Entrance to a prehistoric tomb.
Tim and Kathy
A few pictures from the last several days.
Several Pictures show high and low tide. There is a 30 foot difference!! Low tide and the boats are beached!
Tim and Kathy
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