Countryfile’s feature on our hedge veg culture a blessing for tourism
Tuesday 18th January 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
BBC TV’s Countryfile presenter James Wong with some hedge veg. Sunday night’s programme featured Mr Wong collecting Guernsey hedge veg and fishing for crabs and lobsters before ending his day with a barbecue aboard a boat. (Picture by Juliet Pouteaux, 0989393)
GUERNSEY tourism could get a boost from a feature on the BBC TV programme Countryfile.
A film crew visited the island last June and filmed presenter James Wong collecting hedge veg and going fishing for crabs and lobsters before ending the day with a barbecue aboard a boat.
The programme highlighted the average 2,000 hours of sunshine the island gets a year and looked in detail at hedge-veg boxes and some of the producers behind them.
A States marketing and tourism spokesman said they were delighted the island had featured on Sunday night’s programme.
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However, the tourists will not be able to find their holiday home, due to the Environment Department’s incompetence.
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@ Mr G
Nope, will be all the roads closed!
Desperately Seeking Susan :))
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Leaving the above gripes aside, I’m glad hedge veg has been give national coverage.
It’s a great island institution and long may it continue.
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This is true Mr G
When moving further on due to the Environment Department’s incompetence, they also won’t find any local hand crafts at Griffins Grotto anymore Along with the strawberry farm and Wood Carvers both being closed. Moving round they may want to stop for a wee but they will need a loo that’s open because they couldn’t just nip behind a wooden fence or Granite wall not because you just can’t do that but because The Environment Department had then all removed as they were not in keeping with the surroundings. They could go on to the Petit Bot with all its added metal warning, don’t do, and other signs which are in keeping with the old Napoleonic Martello tower. Failing that there’s always Admiral Park which I was told some visitors visited only to find out it was not actually a park this is after they got lost looking for the Strawberry Farm which was no longer there. They left Guernsey with the words “we won’t be coming back” I wonder if they took any hedge veg with them?.
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It was a quaint feature, highlighting some aspects of life in these islands which, quite frankly, seem like a thing of the past on the mainland.
Guernsey (and Alderney) do remind people of this, so let’s hope they do not lose ‘it’ as well.
I am also glad to hear that the vast majority of people do pay: I would feel so guilty not doing so!
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Bringing in tourists. Try asking why people like me no longer visit your island. Personally I love Guernsey but my wife and children hate the place now. Why, sub standard hotels, overpriced hotels, very unfriendly local motorists who completly ignore any speed limits. And yes I can hadle the yellow box junctions easily, Forgive me thinking I can drive as I use motorways and duel carraigeways regularly. Also I can negotiate a roundabout in the correct lane. Locals seem to think we tourists can’t handle your yellow box junctions LOL. If you want tourists try welcoming them. If you don’t want tourists carry on as you are, they will soon give up. Let’s face it gauranteed (virtuall) sun is available in Spain cheaper then it is in Guernsey.
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Mike
Leave the missus and the kids home next time :)
I suppose the general demise of tourism in the island can be laid at the door of far better deals elsewhere for the last 10-15 years,both in terms of travel costs and weather
As for the Guernsey person’s driving habits.That is something that is brought up from time to time in the written Press by disgruntled visitors and I wonder sometimes if their discomfort is caused in the main by driving a ‘strange’ hire car with severe penalties if they scratch it ( unless they ship in their own vehicle) combined with the narrowness of our roads,even those we deem as main roads
Most regular Guernsey motorists are quite happy to drive to the 35mph speed limit when they know that there is a comfortable four or five inches clearance between wing mirrors of approaching vehicles
Judging by the on off – on off brake lights I see when I am following a hire car anything less than a two or three foot clearance brings on the palpitations in a regular dual carriage or motorway user.Understandable I suppose
Perhaps that’s why Andy Priaulx is so good on street circuits and we might even look forward to Jenson Button regaining his F1 crown after a few more months of the unique Guernsey driving experience
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As an Island born visitor Guernsey is still a great holiday place.When I look at the barren scenery in some holiday resorts,and compare to Guernsey,then I’m glad I can AFFORD to take a holiday here each year.Of yes,the traffic in Town is terrible,and no-one seems capable of sorting it out,but get away from Town,stick to the speed limits,and drivings a piece of cake.The one thing that grieves me is the lack of proper sewage treatment,nothing more offputting when out swimming than to meet a “dead sailor”!
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