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Best and Worst in Jersey Saint Helier, Channel Islands*

Jersey Saint Helier, Channel Islands Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• B Block - Notorious staff quarters of a large hotel
• maratime museam.an old granite storage facility rsetored yo it's original glory.also the cottages in hue street,an original part of st helier dateing back to the 17/18th century that they wanted to demolish.saved and restored by a determined bunch.well done boys and girls!
• my house!
• Fort Regent. You have to see it to believe it...

Demolish It Now Building

• Fort Regent - ugly and out of place
• I used to live in a flat paid for by my employers on Hastings Road and there was a terrible cooling tower which obscured my view.
• le marais tower blocks,all 4 of the damm things.
• my school
• The Police headquarters. Nuff said.
• La Frigate Cafe The Steam Clock
• Ariadne the Steam Clock .. buggest steam clock in the world or summat .. belongs in disney world .. eyesore ..

The Best Things

• Far enough away from England to be forgotten about. Hooshay and his "a gentleman doesn't wear brown shoes during the week" shit.
• you can surf, skate, piss anywhere and the cops are so fat they just shout...
• Clubs are open every night. Large amount of Portuguese men to be found all round the island. Everywhere is within walking distance of each other.
• country side,clubs the locals(mad nutters),laid back attidue.
• Close to beach, cheap booze, warm(ish) weather
• surf
• Rusty Lee had an epieptic fit in the men's toilet of the Bath Hotel and spilled creme de menth on my mates shoes.
• The weather during summer, the spotless beaches, the superb cliff views, the fact that no matter where you are on the island you're never more than ten minutes away from the sea.
• Frequent flights from the superb airport

The Worst Things

• That whole 'bean' thing is a bit sad really. More money than sense (hold on, that could be a good thing).
• The worst thing is not the back-in-time government or the power-crazy centeniers who knock on your door at eleven o'clock at night asking you to trim your hedge. I can even put up with the mentality of pissed up Ben Sherman shirt wearing, shaven headed, double earringed, mobile phone in top pocket pissheads fighting at the Weighbridge on Friday night and then staggering home through the tunnell aggresively shouting at the taxis going past. But the worst thing ever to come out of Jersey is ex Quennevais resident Will Browning who is now leader of the facsist Combat 18 movement. I hope he farts himself inside out.
• the local government naffing things up with their stupid ideas that nobody wants but still go ahead and do.the knocking down of loveley buildings and some property developer building high class flats that nobody wants or can afford.in general prices of houses that in general again noboby can afford,due to inflated prices.
• Insular attitude, travel costs to get to the UK, no take-aways open when the clubs shut.
• flat sea sometimes
• The ridiculous number of annoying tourists in the summer, the crap weather in winter, the amount of Kevs and Boy racers.
• Too many to list. Lack of life, interesting people......

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Last updated: 2008-07-01