As a resident of the island I think you gave a very fair and concise report on our island. Anyone who does not think the island is special really needs to come and visit us.

Corbiere wins for me! Wow! And well done ditching the phone and going old-school!

the tall German range finder tower at Corbiere is one of the Holiday Lets that you can rent from Jersey Heritage, which is the museum service. so it is worth staying in one of their unique lets, as you get a pass to all of their attractions around the island.

Another interesting piece and very timely too Mark. Next week I'm off to the CI, and have a full day on Jersey at a loose end so was contemplating seeing it best by bus, with a daily pass (£9 now it seems!), great minds think alike! 😁 So I'm going to do that, helped by the info in this video, seems like solid decent advice as ever, so thanks v.much mate, your work is invaluable you know. 👌

Anyone else trying to spot locations used in Bergerac?

As a born and bred Jersey girl , it was funny hearing you pronounce some of our names … it catches everyone out ! St Ouens is pronounced ‘Wons’ lol as for modern buses , we do now have an electric bus.. more to come I think ..if they have anywhere to charge it ! As for usbs …. Your not normally on bus long enough and you would be having to unplug it all the time if you did not have a window seat to let people on and off the seat.. most tourists tend to book a full or half day coach tour with one of the local coach companies .. buses tend to be used for getting from A to B and not an island tour .. depending on how much you use it, the ticket you had was good value as a single cash journey is £2.25 …

The other things I'd advise to do in Jersey is to take the ferry over to St Malo, France for a day and to visit Elizabeth Castle. The musketman there was superb.

Another good video haircut!!!!. I, am becoming quite a fan!

Interesting video and view of the service; I've been to Jersey 3 times in recent years and each time stayed in a different place (Gorey Pier, St Helier and St Aubin). I find the bus service to be absolutely excellent - the island is so small you don't really fancy stuff and USBs - and the cost of replacing a fleet that's doing a grand job suited to the island would be odd. It was lovely to see familiar and favourite places - you were unlucky with the weather - in good summer sunshine a friend and I got off at the same stop as you for Corbiere and then walked to L'etacq stopping for a swim and lunch halfway along St Ouens bay - what a fab day that was - we worked out it was about 12 miles all in. A lovely island, beautiful scenery but since the pandemic, eye-wateringly expensive.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Jersey and making this video. Despite a few mis pronunciations you did a good job with most of the names! Better than most of our guests from thr UK. Thanks again for posting this!

Another great video. Do enjoy watching these.

Fantastic video Mark. Good to see Paper Maps being very useful.

Having just returned from Jersey, great to see this. Really good to see Mark. Thanks

No. 9 was my bus home from school in the 60s. A Leyland double decker.

Great travel experience! I wish I had so much time to visit all the places I've seen in your videos 🤗 Thank you for another great video 🤗

Hi Mark, awesome channel , have watched most of your 150 video's in the last couple of weeks & subscribed to your channel.... The Bernina Express video is unforgettable.. looking forward to your next video / adventure... Thank you and " cheers for now ".. 🍷👍😊

The bus station reminds me of the Hull bus interchange that has silding doors too.

nice - I want to do this soon

Excellent video Mark 👍

I like the old buses, i would of liked that, good video, must visit Jersey some day

I went to Jersey in 2019, I highly recommend it. I also used the bus. I got it from St Helier to the German Hospital aka Jersey War Tunnels, (which is well worth a visit) and then from St Helier to St Brelade's Bay,.

Very enjoyable viewing

Great video Mark. Optares are quite handy vehicles, particularly for smaller islands. I do remember that there were Optare Solo SR buses even here in Malta, some during the time of Arriva Malta (now back in the UK) and others that came on loan between 2014 and 2015. Funny enough, regarding the former London Scania you boarded, these went a bit here and there and we also have one of those in Malta and one another in Gozo Indeed £8.50 a day is a great value for money to visit the island. I definitely need to pay a visit to the channel Island, as it seems you had a great time. Anyway, also thanks for the tip on roaming charges in Jersey, as usually my mobile phone plan includes the whole EU and UK, but did not know that the Channel Islands never adopted the roam like at home.

That’s interesting about the Phone. I have a Tesco sim which works in the EU and the Channel Islands at no extra cost

Another great adventure! The bus station strangely reminds me of, the smaller, North Finchley bus station. It also has that strange underneath a large building entrance way, that makes it feel semi underground.

Another god video keep up the good work

It’s a place we want to visit, so thanks for the review reminds me of Gozo off malta all buses operate out of capital

Great video mark

Very nice Video Mark

Superb footage 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🥂🥂🥂🥂

I used the buses way back in 2012 but can't remember much about them. I did enjoy Jersey though😊

Lol my friend you should have got off at st aubins beautiful village old courthouse we're Bergerac was filmed I lived there in the 70s Jersey is a fantastic place by the way st ouens is pronounced st 1s I hope you do return 1day my friend thanks for the video John 😊

cheers for the U/L look forward to them

Oh god my idea of hell, a bus full of school kids!! Lol.. Optare Solo perfect for right narrow roads, unusual with the wheel in front of the driver (and door) as opposed to behind driver (and door) on normal buses. Brilliant little island, went there in the early to mid-80’s (when Bergerac was on tv). Surprised they don’t have electric buses as we have in Inverness, would be perfectly suited for Jersey

Well done Mark, another brilliant video. Bad luck getting stuck on a bus with School kids. Similar happened to me coming back from Fleetwood to Blackpool on the Tram once, ugh! Jersey looks beautiful. I need to visit myself to go and do the parkrun, and get some duty free. I think I will contact my mobile provider before I go. They offer phone packages for going abroad. Not sure I'd be able to cope with a paper map.

All roads lead to St Helier Mark!

A very good Tuesday evening Mark from Alan in Lowestoft buddy 👍 😊

Great little trip and a lovely reminder of the time our band used to get booked to play in Jersey. One year we hired bikes and rode out to the lighthouse on what I think was a cycleway along an old track bed. As you say, a very beautiful island. If you go back to the Channel Islands, then Guernsey did have a bus that circuits the whole island when I was last there.

Another great video. I reckon £8.50 for a day out is good value. Thanks for taking us along.

Looks lovely 👍

My last visit, I rented a bicycle. No parking problems, skip through traffic, and of course, cheap.

Thank you

Great video mate! Seems like I pretty much followed you a few weeks later, but by hire car (I was with my mum - if alone I'd probably have done it by bus too!) Well done for going old school with paper maps and timetable, though my phone network seems to include all roaming within Europe ;) Thanks!

All the Channel Islands now have roaming so u can use your UK phone depending on the provider, I use three and they charged me £2 a day with a 12 gb limit

We have Wifi on the Guernsey buses. we have two circular routes, clockwise and anti clockwise. 91 and 92

Thanks Mark for taking us along. I like that there are still undeveloped beaches and corners of Jersey to ramble and disappear for a bit; although it’s been a decade or so since I was there last.

I got a taxi from the airport to Hotel d'Or where I was staying for a meeting. Taxi driver asked if I had been to Jersey before. I said it was my first time. Found out later that he took an extended route! Loved the Island.

Similar buses to Guernsey and on there they are the best way to get around last summer a 7 day bus pass on Guernsey cost £17.50

Mont Orgueil (sp?) Castle is fabulous. So's Elizabeth Castle, which has the bonus of being reached by amphibious bus👨‍✈️

Citroen Traction Avant6:04 (couldn't be Bergerac's, that was a Triumph Roadster)

I'd love to go back to Jersey. 2013 was the last time I was there.

I was born in Jersey & spent most summers there & I haven't ever heard of L' tacq lol

£8.50 for a day ticket? 10p per square mile .... and on that basis, MUCH better value when the tide is out! 🙂 At first sight, not too much of either JMT or Jersey Eastern Railways left to see. 🥺

As a very frequent visitor to mainly Jersey, but also the Channel islands in general, I've found, if your phone is network free, ie. Not tied to a UK phone network, I'd get a local nano SIM, top up on data... and generally use Google maps and local bus apps to easily get around

I have been to Jersey many, many times but never taken a bus ride but then again it was always work related, very nice video but no mention of Elizabeth castle?!

Optare solos / versa are not the greatest buses I never been a fan of them good video and a place I must visit in the future

Great to see our favourite place, Jersey😊. Not sure what you were expecting from the buses but their service is perfectly suited to the size of the island and their road layout and is excellent. Not having a USB port isn't the end of the world! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Enjoyed the video, the blue tourist coaches us local residents find annoying as they clog up country lanes, we call them grockle cans!

Pomme d'Or

Hi Mark, we did a similar thing on Malta. Bought a bus pass for a week and set off exploring. Might be an idea for a future trip?

Btw St Ouens Bay isn’t pronounced as “owens” it’s pronounced as “St Ones Bay”

I never realised St Helier was so...Urban! Jersey used to only have specially small buses (7'6" width and short) - now they obviously have full size double deckers!

You do so much look like Gordon Ramsey. With a Shoozbry accent!

like on neighbouring Guernsey, it's an excellent system, rather European in that it's a state-supported tendered network, thanks to the Channel Islands being self-governing and thus having escaped the purely profit-driven instability of the mainland British bus business

Do you think you will go back ro Jersey for a holiday soon ?

Please make another bus video in jersey they added a electric bus please make just 1 more 🙂

It’s strange to hear the bus station referred to as “the station” as it was even at tourist information when I was there

Are the Channel Islands like the Isle of Man? I mean, they're another country that forms part of the United Kingdom, like Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, Right?

Hi Mark how you doing mate? Great video as always well edited and great background music added sure is different seeing you finding your way to the buses and knowing which one to take to explore the whole of Jersey, its good that's there's someone on the desk to help out if your stuck on where to go plus pay for your ticket £8.50 is a ok price for a whole day ticket, sure is an average standard Optare bus indeed those pesky school kids sure annoyed that poor bus driver good thing there was a teacher onboard to tell them off beautiful views of Gorey indeed you didn't look very impressed of that bus journey to Gorey at all due to them naughty school kids, Corbiere light house looks very interesting indeed it is good that people can go inside it, sure was a change to see a Scania double decker instead all the way to L'Etacq that looked very boring indeed a bunch of nothing at all the other passengers looked annoyed too, you sure had a very long walk to Leoville to go back to St Helier once again the last one of the day anyways hope you having a good afternoon Mark and keep up the great content on the channel as always as its so great 👍

Didn't the hotel have WiFi?

Mark my dear, may I offer a suggestion. Having been in broadcasting for decades i can tell you this. Tis better to voice over sections where the background is overwhelming. I could not understand much after you scanned the ticket and sat down. When you listen back as editing before publishing try it on a device not attached to headphones. I watch on my main telly for example. As always best wishes for your continued success.

I had the same problem going up to the zoo with herds of schoolchildren

Old fashioned and unfashionable?Optare Solos are common in many places, and they're rarely equipped with USB ports and so on . Neither are Wright Streetlites or Enviro 200s or many of the buses you'll find outside London or flagship routes in other cities

Hi mate, not to be rude, mate but had you asked me if you could record I'd have been happy to partake, I'd ask that you remove my image and recording from the film, thanks.

Nothing special about jersey by the looks of. Enjoy your videos though...