Again we decided that a ferry was preferable to risking scraping the bottom of Jomima on a rock visiting Sark. I can now confirm that there are no cars on Sark, which is larger than Herm, at 3 miles long and 1 ½ miles wide. However, it also has the highest point of any of the Channel Islands so the potential walk from the harbour to the town was steep, so we took one of the tractor drawn buses. If you want to tour the Island then you have three choices: walk, hire a bike or take a horse drawn cart. We chose the latter and were lucky because our cart only had the four of us as passengers rather than the usual 10 people. George (the horse) took us on a gentle, two hour, tour of the island with a stop at the fantastic ‘Le Seigneurie’ Gardens i.e. the Governor’s house. It would take too long to explain the politics, which is based upon the islanders being a self-governing Crown Dependency with the Barclay brothers, who live on a neighbouring island, causing problems locally. The pace of life is different from the mainland. Traditional activities such as farming, fishing and local crafts provide employment for the 600 people on the island. However, some modern technology such as broadband and mobile telephones are also available – but definitely no cars.
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