The island that said 'Non'; It's only 40 miles from France - but Guernsey chose to be a unique part of the British Isles.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: May 8, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: MICHAEL LEAPMAN

A GUERNSEY, I knew, was a kind of sweater and a Guernsey, with a capital G, a kind of cow.

I have also grown a Guernsey lily; but before I went to the island I had little notion of what I might discover.

The era of mass tourism has all but bypassed the Channel Islands - those dots on the map that French author Victor Hugo, Guernsey's most famous resident, called 'pieces of France which fell into the sea and were gathered up ...

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