{"id":19775,"date":"2016-05-22T22:31:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T21:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19775"},"modified":"2016-06-02T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T10:46:44","slug":"visit-to-sark-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19775","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Sark (4): Little Sark and sunshine (at last)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s not much that is smaller than Sark &#8211; but there is Little Sark. Actually Little Sark is not an island in its own right but an extension of the main island connected by a narrow causeway called La Coupee with some breathtaking views.<\/p>\n<p>Our walk out to Little Sark started in even more rain. We arrived somewhat bedraggled at an establishment called &#8220;La Sablonnerie&#8221; where we had refreshments in the Tea Garden before being offered sloe gin in the Restaurant by the eccentric owner.<\/p>\n<p>As we left &#8220;La Sablonnerie&#8221;, we discovered that the rain had stopped, the sun had come out and the temperature was warmer &#8211; which really added to the appreciation of this special island.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday before the season is in full swing is a quiet time on this quite island and Sunday evening is dead. We ate at a pub called the &#8220;Bel Air Inn&#8221; where the menu was decidely limited and the service remarkably slow (there were no desserts at all).<\/p>\n<p>A consolation might have been the night sky since this is a Dark Island with no street lights and I was hoping to catch my first sight in the Northern Hemisphere of the Milky Way. But all the previous nights were too overcast and tonight was dull with a full moon so there were few stars to be seen let alone the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend has cetainly been an experience but, as someone who has only ever lived in Manchester and London and loves the cosmopolitan metropolis, I&#8217;m rather looking forward to the return tomorrow to the big city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s not much that is smaller than Sark &#8211; but there is Little Sark. Actually Little Sark is not an island in its own right but an extension of the main island connected by a narrow causeway called La Coupee with some breathtaking views. Our walk out to Little Sark started in even more rain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19775"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19842,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775\/revisions\/19842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}