Explore the pretty, gently undulating landscape of Jersey. Peppered with many unique features and physical reminders of a colourful past, you can now...
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Jim Bergerac (Nettles) is a recovering alcoholic divorcee and father to a young daughter. He is a Detective Sergeant with the Bureau des Etrangers a...
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Location. The Royal Yacht is located in St Helier, Jersey, 200 metres from the main shopping precinct, 600 metres from the beach, and three miles from...
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Location. The Royal Yacht is located in St Helier, Jersey, 200 metres from the main shopping precinct, 600 metres from the beach, and three miles from...
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Advantages: very cool and exciting same time, beaches, people Disadvantages: expensive, not recommended for non european
...Well to start with Jerseyisland, we heard about it while in India but never thought we would landed here for 3 months in summer 2008. But we are and very pleased to be here.
Location:
As many knows it is southmost part of UK, around 100 miles from UK and 7 miles from France. Largest of 4 channel island.
Connectivity:
You can either reach Jersey by air or sea. Though fares are not much different advance booking in flight might be cheaper sometimes for family. Flybe, Flybmi, British airways is most common airlines coming to Jersey with recently started of Easyjet. Average time of flying is 30 min to 1 hr.
Condor ferries is popular ferry service from UK to Jersey which take around 4 hours when there is good weather. HD ferries has recently shut down their business for Jersey.
History:
It is historical...
imwhoever
21.09.2008 (18.01.2009) ·Read review
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Review of Jersey (Channel Islands)
Advantages: quiet, 40 miles per hour speed limit, glorious beaches Disadvantages: could be too quiet if you stayed too many nights?
...Jersey is an island that I have always wanted to visit. I went there for 1 day over 10 years ago, when I holidayed in France, and have always vowed to go back again. This year I finally made it and stayed at a hotel in St Helier (Merton Hotel, reviewed separately).
Jersey can be reached by ferry or plane. We took the fast catamaran from Condor Ferries at Weymouth, sailing at 7am on Sunday morning, arriving at 10.30am, and sailed back at 2.30pm on the Friday.
GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
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Jersey is the largest of the four Channel Islands, the other largest ones being Guernsey, Herm, Sark and Alderney. Jersey is situated 100 miles from the south of mainland Britan and 14 miles from the coast of France. Its size is 9 miles by 5 and the island doubles in size when the tide goes out. Jersey is divided into 12...
Advantages: Good performances, excellent wit, balances drama and comedy. Disadvantages: Largely cliched, nothing orginal, bland.
...I'm a long time fan of Kevin Smith and his productions, despite their flaws. The majority of his work is hardly groundbreaking cinema, but it is incredibly entertaining. Obviously this led to some curiosity when it came to Jersey Girl, even moreso after the announcement that it would be nothing like his previous films. The idea behind Jersey Girl was to shift away from the low-brow humor of the View Askew universe and make something that appealed to a wider audience. To many people, this instantly set off alarm bells with the fans claiming he had sold out by "going mainstream". Personally this didn't really bother me, I was just curious to see what he came up with.
So was the experiment a success? Both yes and no actually. Smith has created an entertaining, if flawed, romantic comedy that can appeal to mainstream audiences...
eddie7sf
11.09.2004 ·Read review
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Review of Jersey Girl (DVD)
Advantages: Amusing, Great Comedy Disadvantages: Smith Fans expecting another stoner romp will be peeved
...' is a collection of short segments Smith done for The Jay Leno Show in the USA. They're nothing to do with the film but they're very funny. In them, Smith visits some of the lesser-known tourist attractions in various states. Smith interacts with the guides to these attractions and makes amusing comments on the banality of the some of them.
Affleck and Smith also have a 27-minute chat on camera about all sorts of things. They talk about how they met and how they came to do Jersey Girl. The pair are good friends and Smith is always good for a joke. It's a nice addition but if you've sampled other Smith DVD's then you may have already heard some of the stuff.
'Behind The Scenes' is the usual promotional fluff that get's thrown onto DVD's. It gives you the usual talking heads guff and doesn't do much more than promote the film...
utero
25.04.2006 ·Read review
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Review of Jersey Girl (DVD)
Advantages: VAT free, great beaches and of course, Jim Bergerac, Disadvantages: expensive to get to - book early folks
...Moooooooo!
Thats the sound of a cow, one of Jersey's most celebrated inhabitants. They are brown and make great milk. That aside, there is much to do on this fun-sized island (even David Gorman went there, see my other op!).
So what have I got in store for you on this, my 3rd review? Well, I'm going to give you a rough guide style (as there are no published rough guides on the Channel Islands)young persons guide to the island that put a smile on Bergerac's face, Jersey.
I find that most guide books on Jersey are aimed at our more matured friends, which is fine because they certainly love the island, but there are no guides for young adventurous soles like you, my dear reader. So first let me say well done for reading this review!
BACKGROUND
Jersey's population could fit inside Twickenham, its around 90,000. Apparently...
Advantages: Nice beaches, low crime rate and change from UK. Disadvantages: Expensive and can be boring.
...** A Teens Guide to Jersey**
Welcome fellow teens. My name is Sophie, I am 13 and I live in Jersey.
I am going to tell you what Living With The Cows is REALLY like.
First off, to be blunt, Jersey is boring. There isn't much to do for anyone over 6 and under 16 and everything is expensive, and this is much worse in the winter. If the parental units are planning on a trip to the land of the spuds, suggest to them - no, PLEAD, - that they go in the summer. At least that way you have advantage of the gorgeous beaches.
Next, make sure you save your pocket money if you are planning on a spending spree. Contary to popular belief, just because we don't have VAT it doesn't mean that everything is cheap. In fact, from my personal expierence, it is much more expensive than mainland UK.
However, if your parents are nice there are a few...
chestnutsumo85
05.02.2008 (01.02.2008) ·Read review
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Review of Jersey (Channel Islands)
Advantages: cute characters, good story, good songs too Disadvantages: is one in a series, ali isn't all that hot
...whilst they leave the Great Valley and Littlefoot and his friends decide to take matters in their own hands by crossing the "big water" to an unknown island. At the Big water they encounter an old friend from The Land Before Time DVD number 2, he's called Chomper, the tiny friendly T-rex. Chomper has to protect the gang from his own carnivorous parents, which adds tension to the storyline as they have some really close calls! Plenty of drama in this one, you're sure to enjoy as we all did :)
Some fantastic songs, although the graphics and cartoons are pretty much the same as the old style t.v. and video issues. It depends if you prefer this look, although I personally think they could have digitally remastered it a bit more. Of course not to the extent of finding nemo, but perhaps a nice intermediate.
Overall a 4 star rating, although...
Advantages: Tax free shopping, better weather than England, You can use English money Disadvantages: There own currency that you cant spend in England
...Jersey is a small island off the French coastline but dispite it's location is still part of the United Kingdom. It's perfect for a getaway from England without having to speak a different language.
*Getting There
As with all overseas places there are two ways to get there, by plane and boat. If you want to take your car to the island the only way to travel is by the condor ferries from either Weymouth, Poole or Portsmouth. You can also fly into the island from several of the UK's airports into the bright and clean Jersey airport. If you are taking your car beware that they have filter in junctions that we dont have in England. They do seem to keep the traffic moving freely though.
*Shopping
By far and away the best reason for going to Jersey is the shopping. As it is not in the EU all the things there are at duty and tax...
Advantages: easy to get to, no passports, tax free, pretty, friendly locals, nice hotels Disadvantages: pricey to visit, pricey to shop
...I first went to this Island about 8 years ago. It was the last holiday I went on with my parents before getting married.
We flew to Jersey, it is a really nice flight and Jersey airport is so welcoming, small and friendly.
There is so much to do on this island for the whole family. Not much in the way of wild night clubs, but I believe there is a club of sorts somewhere near St Ouens.
We visited Gerald Durrell's Jersey Conservation Trust which was outstanding. Only the Cotswold Wildlife Park compares to this brilliant place. We saw the famous Gorilla - Jambo is it? Sadly he has since died.
There are pearl factories, brilliant herb garden to visit, parks and of course the shops. Jewellery, camera's, video's are particularly good value as Jersey is tax free.
It is odd when you hire a car and travel around, as some...
Advantages: Good acting Disadvantages: Director tried to much
... Shutter Island
Running: 138 minutes
Category: Psychological thriller
Director: Martin Scorsese
Year: 2010
Language: English
Country: United States
Actors:
Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy Daniels
Mark Ruffalo as Chuck Aule
Ben Kingsley as Dr. John Cawley
Michelle Williams as Dolores Chanal
Emily Mortimer as Rachel Solando
Max von Sydow as Dr. Jeremiah Naehring
Jackie Earle Haley as George Noyce
The story
Detective Teddy Daniels and his new colleague Chuck Aule are on their way to the Asheclif Mental institution on the Shutter Island, in the year 1954. In this hospital the patients are mentally disturbed people, who are a danger to other people. Some of them even killed people. One of them is Rachel Solando, who killed her own three children by drowning them one by one. She is living in some kind of fantasy world where...
