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BED AND BREAKFAST [S ROUTE TO GO Jersey is a great destination

IT’S A nice compliment to be asked for advice from anyone but most of all from someone in the travel in- dustry. In this case, my caller was a travel agent.

He flattered me by saying. he’d been clipping my columns but had somehow misplaced the specific one he wanted, containing ine ad- dress ‘of a special bed-and- breakfast house in Jersey.

But, the most interesting part of the conversation, to me, v/s that although travel agents regularly book their ciients into hotels,. for themselves the:, choose B & B.

Anyway, just in case anyone else is planning a visit to Jersey; the address is:

Ashville Guest House

26 Vauxhall St.,

St. Helier, Jersey, C.1.

Phone: 33075 and 23824 std 0534

(Pm .sot sure what the ‘‘std’’ stands for so better ask the opera- tor when making the call.)

The funny part is that I’ve never seen this guest house, but I have no hesitation in recommending it. Why? Because my daughter stayed there last year and that kid is so fussy ... Besides, she’s stayed in B & B all over Britain so she knows what quality means.

The price, last year, was 8 pounds sterling per person, in-

cluding breakfast. The food was so "

ood — the owner is a French chef, that they ate every dinner there as well.

The complete meal cost, then, just 3 pounds.

Jersey has some of the finest restaurants — and lowest prices — of anywhere in the world. Drink prices are incredibly low as well, making a visit to the island a bit of -atemptation. |

I was sorry to hear that:my trav- el agent reader had allotted just two days for his visit to Jersey. I would /never allow less than five ‘days ‘here and a lot longer would ‘be priferable.

Getting’ back to the Ashville Guest House, it’s right in the town centre, a short walk to the bus terminal. This is a real advantage for visitors as most of us don’t risk renting a car. The joke among the residents is that rental cars all have an “H’’ on their licence plates. They insist it: stands for ‘“*homicide.”’

To describe ‘the roads there, the word ‘‘cliff-hanger’’ comes ito mind. The buses are frequent, the drivers know where they’re going

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and are apt to come first in any argument over right-of-way.

Suzyalso remarked that the lounge in the Ashville was remarkably comfortable and opened out onto a lovely rose garden.

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Just a few more notes on Jersey. A visit to Gerald Durrell’s world-famous zoo is a fine way to spend a day. You might remember a while back reading about a little

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child falling into the gorilla enclosure there. The child was slightly injured in the fall — it’s quite a drop — but completely unharmed by the gorillas. In fact, the big mz‘. stood protectively over the child until help arrived. It’s a good thing that it wasn't my daughter who fell in! That

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