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travel: A royal getaway; VINCE GLEDHILL enjoys a short but memorable trip to the Channel Island of Jersey.(Features)
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Byline: VINCE GLEDHILL
IT COULD hardly have been more of a flying visit. But one full day on the Channel Island of Jersey was enough for me to know that I will be back.
Time was short, but seemed even shorter in a place with so many ways to indulge your fancies.
Walking, shopping, eating, drinking, cycling, soaking up history or sunshine, and dozens of watersports, the list goes on.
Of course, Jersey has its grey-hair reputation as a place of old-world charm, sedate pastimes and tearooms. But today's greyhair brigade were also once the ...
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News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
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French court convicts former Prime Minister Alain Juppe in party financing scandal
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
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Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
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News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
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