If you know your history...
Walking tours have been one of the island’s tourism success stories of recent years.
There are more than 50 experienced and accredited guides who can take visitors on a scenic and informed stroll virtually anywhere in Guernsey and make it an event worth paying for.
You’ll regularly spot them with a gaggle of visitors trailing behind, and this week they’ve marked the success of last year tours, with more than 1,000 people taking part in a Town tour over the summer.
Slightly disappointing though for the guides, that compared to more than 1,000 visitors, just 40 islanders got on board for one of these walks.
Gold accredited tour guide Soo Wellfair, who co-ordinates the Town Walks scheme, says she’d like to see more local residents get involved.
‘We get lots of new individuals and families relocating to Guernsey each year and our tours are ideal for those who are settling in to island life,’ she said.
Guernsey’s rich, long and unique history is a strong selling point for the island and deserves to be better known, certainly by islanders, old and new.
From the role of Castle Cornet in the English Civil War to the German Occupation and beyond, Guernsey’s got something for everyone.
We really do need to shout about it more.