 Hello, thank you for joining me. We have just arrived at Perm Island. Just come over on this little boat from Guernsey. Couldn't dock at the main harbour due to the tide here. The main harbour's over there. Everyone else is now boarding, so I'm going to make my way out here up those steps and we're going to go and explore the island of Herm. A moment ago we were just down there at those steps. The ferry's already gone back. All those people that were queuing on the steps got on really quickly and went. That island there, I think it's pronounced Jetu. It's about J-E-T-H-O-U and then over there that's Guernsey and St Peter's Port. This I think is a typical road on Herm. There's no cars or anything here. Possibly horses. It's a very small island and I've never been here before, so I'm really excited about exploring. We've already made a couple of videos in Jersey, so now we're going to, I'll make at least one when I'm on Guernsey and then this is our exploration of Herm. So here we have to look out there. What a really nice beach. We're going to go and find the harbour where the boats would usually dock and then when we get there we'll go inland. We'll find the little village and see what there is to see. My plan is also to walk to the other side of the island and around the glyphotops. So it's just like another world to pee. I've never really, I've been to Iona. I've never actually made a video there but I have been to Iona. Size-wise it's probably about the same size as that but it doesn't really remind me of it. So I'm going to continue down here if I'm going to go and find the harbour. This little building here is Herm prison. It's very small but then Herm's a small island, so if we don't need a great deal of prison cells I'm not expecting to see anything. Something really bad you go to Guernsey because I believe there is a prison there. Now one thing I'm really excited to discover railways of the Channel Island. Well I think Alden is the most famous island for having a railway which I'm not actually going to visit on this trip. I haven't got time. I went to the Palette steam motor and General Museum in Jersey where we did see some steam locomotives but as for Herm being one of the smallest islands it might surprise you to find to discover once had a railway. And here we have a bit of track and a crane. This crane used to be the one piece of rolling stock. We'll go and have a look because the old railway line is still there but this crane it was built in Leeds and it would have just been moved up and down. I don't know if it was, no one seems to know if there was ever any steam locomotives here. It looks like it was probably pushed up and down maybe pulled up and down by horses. You can see the works plate on it. It's heavily sort of painted over but there you go. So it's built in Leeds and here it is on the planks. This is very slightly off its original bit of track which is really nice to see. It's actually got a wooden frame with a metal sort of structure to hold the crane on. So we have an item of rolling stock, railway rolling stock here on Herm. I want to know what the gauge is. I've heard it's some weird gauge. It's not a standard gauge. I'm going to try and measure it with my feet. I should have bought a tape measure. So that's one foot, two foot, three foot, four foot. I would say now my feet are probably a bit bigger than feet. It's getting on for five foot so I reckon it's not quite a standard gauge or it may be slightly bigger than standard gauge. I'll do what I'm going to do. I'm going to have to research this one afterwards and what I'll do. It's coming on screen now what the gauge supposedly is because I've found that one now. Now let's go and have a look at the railway itself. It's going to get really windy now so I'll try and shout over the wind. Have a look. There's this vehicle here. This is a forklift truck which is not on rails but it's parked on the rail. So there's the track. It's just there. It runs along here. So you can clearly see a rail here on railway rail and then it runs along here and it runs along where these water valves are. I'm now walking on the other rail. Through here out into the harbour. So its purpose was to transport granite out from the porries out onto boats. The tides out now hence why there's no water. So that would have transported both the granite out onto boats because herm granite was supposedly very good. Now what I'm going to do now is I'm going to head inland and we're going to go up to the village centre which is up there somewhere. I'm now coming inland from the harbour heading up this rather steep hill up to Manor Village where there's a church and plan his intimate way to the bottom of the island all around the other side. Now I've got a choice of two routes. I can even continue up the steep hill or I can go through the valley gardens. It also says the zen garden. So that sounds quite nice since it's via the woodland walk. So let's have a explore up here. Always like exploring gardens. So I'm seeing this the first time as I show you. So not too sure what we'll see. I wonder if there's quite an exciting looking path going off up there. What if that's the way up? Oh there's a waterfall here with a small pond. Well what day is it that you want to go paddling? But I won't. I did in Jersey the other day. It's at Brunards Bay. I went in the sea. What's up here? So it's like the remains of an old quarry now. This is exciting. It looks almost like a Japanese garden. The zen garden. This is very pleasant. Little bridge. I don't go over. I think maybe there's some sort of a stream coming down here. So this is the zen garden. What I'm going to do now. I think the way up to the Manor Village is going to be up that path we passed. Yeah that's not a proper foot path there. Eucalyptus trees. I do see them on mainland England but it does have a sort of exotic feeling here. You see different plants you wouldn't normally see. There's a nice pond again. I can't see any fish in it. I see fish in the harbour at Guernsey's where you departed. I'm going to go up here now. I'm very excited to see the centre of the island. Its first impressions are just like somewhere so different to where I've been. You know there's no cars. There's a few quad bikes and caboters driving around but you know no real big vehicles. No coaches. No taxes. I haven't even seen any cyclists. Just walkers and I haven't seen any horses that matter. I know they have a lot of them on site. So continuing up here I'm going to have to follow this path to see where it ends up. That's the road we were on a moment ago down there. So let's see where this path takes us. All very exciting though because it's new. I know I can't go too far because the island isn't that big so I'm just going to explore. It's interesting. Look there's a plant here. That's called Badger's broom. It's an indication that this is an ancient woodland. So it provides a nice bit of shade this woodland on a day like today. I'm going to follow the path and let's go find the manor village. So I've made it to the top of the hill and I'm now on a dusty road. Every time one of those quad bikes comes along it kicks up all the dust. I guess quite dusty and feels like I'm out of the desert somewhere. Now we come to this little bell tower. There's a chapel here called St Tungall's Chapel. It used to be a monastery on Sark and this was established as like a little hermitage. Like a monastic cell. This feels very French this scene. I stayed at monastery in France a few years ago and it reminds me a bit this scene here of it. So what are we going to do? We're going to go and have a look at St Tungall's Chapel and we'll have a look inside. It's very pleasant. It's just nice to go inside and get away from the outside. So we come into here. This is the little churchyard. There's Jesus Christ here. So you've got your nice little churchyard here. There's the little little bell tower. You can actually go up to it. I'm not going to ring the bell but there we go. You don't often actually go into the bell tower. So if I was to pull that the bell would ring but I don't want to confuse people and start ringing the bell. That's the little chapel behind us. So it was like a like a miniature monastery in a way and to my knowledge it is the only church now on Herm. So let's go in and have a look. You can see there have been other buildings coming out here so it's like remains of a wall. So we're going to here. Unusual. I've got the anemones here and a bit more of the chapel around here. So I don't know how often they, I don't know how often they have services here. It's quite nice to come to one just because it seems novel to be on this very small land. I had a look in the church this morning at St Peter's Port in Guernsey. Now it's just like your typical sort of town church. We like the sort of church we'd expect to find in the west country but this is really quite different. You might get a little you know sort of um fisherman's chapel down by the coast a bit like this perhaps in the west country or in Wales but I've never seen him quite like this. So here we have this isn't Tumble's church and that's interesting. Now is that someone, yeah someone's actually ringing the bell which I just said I wasn't going to do but anyway you know what the bell sounds like. Let's go and continue exploring her now. I'll just come along the street a bit from the little chapel as these buildings here these are holiday cottages with very very nice view out across. That's Guernsey over there, St Peter's Port. We're now coming to the northern part of the island. It's getting a bit windy here so what happens the road continues around here and the road goes down there to about where you can see the trees. There's then beyond that it's just pretty much only sand dunes. So my plan is to go to that point and then turn right and head over to the east coast of the island. We know it's east because we had a look in the chapel and the chapel faced east and I know from looking at the map. So I head over to the east coast of the island and there's a couple of cafes on the east coast. Oh another interesting thing there's Herm fire station so if there is a fire on Herm that's where the fire is just oh that's the power station that's cool so that must be a diesel power station that is really always like power stations. You may have remember I did a video a while back where I explored Kirkwall capital of Auckland much much bigger than this and we saw a power station there a diesel power station much bigger and here we have just coming along one of the um it's not devoted but you know what I mean. So you see a lot of these vehicles driving around Herm and kicking the dust up. So Herm fire station Herm power station now let's follow this lovely looking lane down to the sea. So I'm continuing along this road it's called the spine road for fairly obvious reasons because it forms the spine of the island. There's a path going off up there I wonder where that goes. Anyway I'm going to follow the spine road it's opening out now. In the last shot we can see some trees down at the bottom we kind of come past them and well get a view. Oh that's interesting now quite a lot of people I know when they do the walk I'm doing they don't go on and go up the hill. I wanted to see the chapel so they go along the southern or not southern shore the um the western shore of the island so they would have come along there so hence why you can see quite a lot of people so I've hardly seen anyone the way I've come along but a lot of people go this way so then they'll probably all end up at the cafe where I'm heading for so I could continue north I could go up that hill I'm not going to I want I've only got three hours here so my plan is to get to the cafe which will be over around the corner of it continue around the cliff paths and then I'll end up back at those steps where we started so as I get to here it's funny how suddenly become really busy but just busy with people no sign of any motor vehicles at all I'm going to head it's going to get really windy now I'm going to head right across over there until I find this cafe so as I've been walking around the island I've been looking for a cafe the path gets sandier I think the other cafe is literally on the beach here we have a beach with people swimming and enjoying the sand and yeah here we are here we have the little cafe something to do I'm going to go over there I'm going to get myself an ice cream I just had a very pleasant ice cream down at the beach cafe just down there you may be able to hear various people sort of screaming and cheering well they were having a sack race so that was a bit of a unusual thing to come across on the beach looking out there's a few boats out on the bay the path now should be quite different I was just talking to some walkers who went the other way and they said that it's more like um up and down like um like we'd expect from a coast a coastal cliff path so it's going to be quite different to what we came the route we came you know via inland I think it'll be a lot quieter not so many people took the spine road most people took the other path around the other side the island right over there that is Sark there's lots of um lots of rocks and a few few um lighthouses up and just about see all of me over there and right in the very distance the camera's free not big enough I can see France so and somewhere over there um on the way to Jersey I could quite clearly see Flamenville nuclear power station I could see the two original domes which house pressurized water reactors commissioned in 1980s and I could see on the left the new reactor which is under construction I'll insert a picture of that now so that's Flamenville nuclear power station and that does also supply the channel one has we've quite a lot of their power as we saw there is a power station here there's La Colette power station on Jersey I expect there is one on Guernsey as well and I don't know that it's pretty something on Sark but a lot of power does come over from France and follow the path now and see well what we find looking down on one of Sark's many little coves we continue our walk around we're now around the northern end of the island up on the cliffs here it's a completely different character to what we saw the southern end of the island where it was all sand dunes we're on a proper cliff path you can see across the Sark over there see a big ferry condo crossing that's probably on a job from Portsmouth or Pools via the Channel Islands probably to St Marlowe in France so there's lots of different ferries you can get they're coming in out all these islands I came over from St Peter's Port in Guernsey the island ahead of us what looked like it's part of the same island but that hill ahead is on Jethu which we saw at the beginning so we've pretty much circumnavigated the island although we did kind of cut through the middle of the island so I'm now coming to the end we'll just see one last bit when we get around the corner we should see the steps and then we'll have done the full circle well we've almost made it now we're just coming around the final curve that'll take us full circle there's a one the boat's coming in it's probably the one I came over on just coming in from St Peter's Port which we can now see over there it's quite interesting to see in the ways they come in and out the rocks the one's just gone it's gone that way food rocks around Jethu this one's come this way I have to try and get to Jethu one I don't know if you can I'll do a little peer but it's a smaller island than Herm the steps I mentioned are just a little bit further around so we've now seen all the views all three four sides around the island so I hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from the cliffs at Herm looking across the St Peter's Port goodbye