Day 2: Guernsey

St. Peter Port, Guernsey: DIY tour amidst pouring rain.

Our original plan was to walk to Candie Gardens, stop by Ben Le Provost Chocolatier (world-famous chocolate shop, then walk to Hauteville House (Victor Hugo's house) and then a final stop at Castle Cornet.

We boarded the tender at 8:25am. The good news: there were no lines and no tickets needed to board the tender. The bad news: it was pouring rain outside. Because of the rain, we decided to skip Candie Gardens and head straight to Victor Hugo's house. We arrived there around 9:15am and found that it doesn't open until 10am. Since there was no point in walking around town in the rain, we decided to just wait outside the front of the house until it opened.

Once Hauteville House opened, we paid £7/adult (children free) for the guided tour. You cannot visit this attraction on your own, you have to sign up for the guided tour. Our tour guide was French and was hard to understand at times but the house was very impressive even by today's standards. The tour runs about an hour.

After Hauteville House, we walked about 20 minutes down to Castle Cornet. There is a cannon firing at exactly 12noon.

After Castle Cornet, we lined up for the tender around 12:20pm. Since it was raining hard, Princess provided umbrellas to the passengers waiting in line. At 1:30pm, we arrived back at the ship.

I'm pretty sure this would have been a nice little town to walk around if it hadn't been for the rain. As it was, the weather made it a difficult situation and we had to make the best out of it.