flowers and gardens is ideal if you wish to discover the island on foot, by bike, or by horse-drawn carriage. It’s a real blessing for nature-lovers! In fact, no motorised vehicles are allowed on the island, except for residents’ tractors. “A senseless beauty” according to Victor Hugo, this piece of land is divided into 2 parts (Great Sark and Little Sark) by ‘La Coupée’, a 3-metre-long isthmus, which is as strange as it is charming. Adorned with a unique village and picturesque houses, including ‘La Seigneurie’ – an old manor La traditionnelle course de built four centuries ago – as well as its two main ports: Creux Harbour and moutons de Sercq en été Maseline Harbour, Sark upholds and preserves the way of life as it was The traditional Sark Sheep lived long ago. Racing in summer Tea time & plum pudding rule the island along with the current Seigneur Pour faire escale à Sercq of Sark, Christopher Beaumont. With the last seigniory in Europe and an En voilier unchanged governing authority since the 17th century, this island resists Au départ de la Bretagne, de Normandie et de Guernesey, les partenaires all types of superfluous modernism. Street lamps and other public lighting de GlobeSailor proposent plus de 100 voiliers pour naviguer dans les îles is still totally forbidden there – admittedly a curious policy, but one that anglo-normandes. Pour en savoir plus :www.globesailor.fr brings you closer to a simple paradise. In fact, it is this unique quality which Les mouillages won the island wide praise in 2011, earning it the title as the world’s first ▣ Port Creux : situé à 23 milles de Saint-Hélier à Jersey, c’est un petit port d’échouage accessible par mer belle. Il est déconseillé par vent de ‘Dark Sky Island’. This title was awarded by an American IDA organisation nord-est générant souvent de la houle. fighting against light pollution. ▣Le mouillage du Havre-Gosselin est à six milles des côtes de Guernesey et So, it’s from sunrise to sundown that visitors can discover unfamiliar sites offre un point de vue sur le phare Pt Robert et sur la côte escarpée. L’île est like Sark Henge, an installation of 9 pink accessible en annexe et par des escaliers le long de la falaise. (Attention granite monoliths built in 2015 l’exercice est sportif !) on Point Derrible which is situated in the south-east of the island. Sark is En ferry delightful in more ways than one; at the foot of the cliffs, visitors can also ▣ De Granville : des liaisons Granville - Sercq, via Jersey sont assurées access the Gouliot and Jewel Caves during periods of low-tide. There is d’avril à septembre par la compagnie Manche îles Express (durée : 3h10). even a cave called the Boutique Caves which is undoubtedly named after www.manche-iles.com – www.voyages-sark.com ▣De Saint-Malo : la compagnie Condor Ferries propose des rotations the smugglers and pirates who would bargain and haggle in the caves Saint-Malo - Sercq via Guernesey tout au long de l’année (durée 2h30). and lairs, revealing another chapter of Sark’s history that is perhaps darker www.jerseytour.com than what appears at first sight. Les road trips de Sercq Le jardin botanique et se font àpied, à véloou... le château en calèche de la Seigneurie Road trips in Sark can be The botanic garden doneon foot, by bikeorb… y and the Seigneurie, the horse and carriage traditional residence of the Seigneur of Sark Making a stopover at Sark By sailboat Departing from Brittany, Normandy and Guernsey, GlobeSailor partners have more than 100 sailboats on offer to sail around the Channel Islands. To find outmore, head over to:www.globesailor.fr Moorings ▣ Creux Harbour: situated 23 miles from Saint-Hélier in Jersey, this little grounding point is only accessible by sea. It is unadvisable to moor here during heavy north-eastern winds while often generate swell. ▣Havre Gosselin Harbour is 6 miles from Guernsey coast and offers a view point over Point Robert Lighthouse and along the ragged coastline. Warning – mounting the steps which line the cliff edge are not for the faint-hearted! By ferry ▣ From Granville: Ferry connections between Granville and Sark via Jersey run from April to September by the company ‘Manche îles Express’ (dura- tion: 3h10) www.manche-iles.com – www.voyages-sark.com ▣ From Saint-Malo: the company Condor Ferries proposes a loop from Saint-Malo to Sark via Guernsey throughout the year (duration: 2h30) www.jerseytour.com 47 YESNREUGTISIV FO YSETRUOC©OTOHPYESNREUGTISIV FO YSETRUOC©OTOHP YESNREUGTISIV FO YSETRUOC©OTOHP