Guernsey Press

Getting home for Christmas

TRAVEL disruption comes round far more regularly than once a year, as with Christmas, and is something we live with as part of island life.

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But the issues are always far more acute at peak periods, Christmas being the ultimate example of that, and it is more than slightly frightening to realise how often we find ourselves writing about ‘travel chaos’ at Christmas time.

Weather rarely seems to play ball in the week leading up to 25 December and this year is no exception.

It’s at times like these that we tend to be thankful for the benefits of local ownership or at the least the strong local roots of our transport providers. Local operators and their owners cannot walk away from problems in the way that multinationals can, and, sadly, often do. Islanders are held accountable by their fellow islanders, and are the stronger for it.

In the last couple of days the hard-pressed souls working in local transport, and indeed, broadened out to logistics and the postal service, will be working hard, often going above and beyond, to make sure that islanders, their friends, relatives and guests, and their goods, get home for Christmas.

It’s a particular time when we trust them to do their very best, knowing that most of the time, even if it has to be at the 11th hour, somehow they’ll get us there.

We wish all our readers and their families a joyful Christmas.