Sark, Sark, Sark...

This weekend myself and Ed took the ferry across to Sark from Guernsey to meet up with some of our festival buddies and to begin working out some of the logistical challenges that lie ahead.

We arrived on a wet and wind-swept Friday evening with just enough daylight left to hire some bikes and head off to visit one of the main contentders for our festival site.  The site was only 5min cycle ride from the village, and dispite the bad weather we enjoyed every second of it.  On arrival we were blown away by the amazing vista that lay before us.  Facing north-west this field had panoramic sea views of Brechou, Guernsey, Herm, Jethou, Alderney, and on a clear day (i.e. not today!), France.

Our next stop was to meet up with Darren who was kindly putting us up for the night, but on the way, still with a bit of light left, we decided to head off across the Coupée to Little Sark.  We were half way across, admiring the dramatic scenery, when Ed spotted this face staring at us from the cliff face opposite... with the mist rolling in now and the light almost gone it was very eerie!

Once the light had gone we met up with Darren who had just finished putting together some brilliant video footage of this year's celebration of the sea, so watched some of that, talked festival for a little while and then headed down to Hugo's bar... after getting a little lost in the dark lanes, with nothing but the torch light on my mobile phone to illuminate our path, we arrived at Hugo's very soggy and slightly saddle sore.  Hugo's is a really nice little bar and restaurant with live music two or three nights each week - very friendly staff who were really excited to hear more about our plans and I'm sure will become involved with our preparations over the coming months.

Saturday was a little hectic, we had many people to meet with and needed (but didn't want!) to be on the 5 o'clock ferry back to Guernsey, so after a full English in AJ's cafe on the avenue we headed off on a tour of the island.  Everybody that we met was really excited to hear how we were getting on with our planning and fully supportive of the event, it is great to have so many fantastic people behind us and sharing our vision!  Thanks to everyone who took the time to chat to us and offer us advice, especially Darren, Michelle, Jared, Paul, Carline, Budgie, Tom, Geraldine, Linda, Kevin, Lawrence, and everyone else!

Simon & Ed