| At Southampton Airport: Jan, Linda, Gareth, Terese. A little apprehensive perhaps having seen the size of the aircraft. |
| Boarding G-BOTO for Alderney |
| Your door is on the other side... |
| Ready for take-off! |
| Arrival on Alderney. |
| First sight of Fort Clonque from the top of the Zig-Zag. |
| Pause for the first photos of the fort. |
| Fort Clonque with Casquets and Ortac in the background. |
| Touring the fort. |
| Baggage handlers - Alan and Gareth. |
| More baggage - Jane, Linda, Jan and Terese. |
| The advanced party - all present and correct. |
| Sunset over Fort Tourgis. The cone on the left is a navigation mark. |
| Sunset over Clonque. |
| Soss Gunge - our traditional arrival meal. |
| More? |
| The first evening in the Soldiers' Quarters. Brenda, Sally, Linda, Ian, Terese. |
| Gareth conducting in the kitchen, with Beryl, Peter, Jan and Rob. |
| Fly the flag! |
| Alderney's Christmas Special. It did not actually run over the photographer... |
| Yes - this really is a Central Line carriage! Apart from the salt it must be one of the best retirement locations for old underground trains. |
| Santa and elf. |
| Rob, Jane and Beryl |
| Alderney is small enough that everyone knows everyone else. This obviously includes the people in charge of the utilities who have managed to get all the new services in a single trench! |
| Alderney Breakwater. The sea was calm but the wind was too high to walk safely along the top. |
| Fort Tourgis: high quality stonework but derelict for decades. |
| The main entrance to Tourgis. |
| Tourgis parade ground. |
| Looking into the main barrack block: that floor is not fit for walking on... |
| Some floors are missing entirely, with interesting results... |
| Another stairwell. |
| Fort Clonque from Fort Tourgis. |
| Platte Saline from Fort Tourgis. |
| Landmark always provide a jig-saw of the property with interestingly-shaped pieces. Ian, Jane and Terese have done the easy bit... |
| Rob and Brenda discuss spreadsheets (!) before dinner. |
| Salmon en Croute tonight - 13 to feed, so Jane made two. |
| Gareth and Jane with the second 'Croute'. |
| Saturday evening entertainments: Beryl, Rob, Brenda, Alan, Peter, Sally and Jane. |
| Jane admiring Linda's fiddle playing. |
| Linda in full flow. |
| Sally |
| Beryl |
| Party games - Ian using a novel technique to pick up the box. |
| Terese making the game harder. |
| Alan hoping that one leg would be more flexible than two. |
| Jan getting close. |
| Jane worrying the box. Eventually we found that Brenda could fold herself in half and pick a flat sheet of card off the floor, but I did not get a photo of the feat. |
| Gareth and Linda in fine form. |
| Brenda |
| Brenda sings to Linda's accompaniment. |
| Serious exercise on Sunday - we set off around the South side of the island. Descending into Trois Vaux valley. |
| ...and back up the other side. Panting hard at the top: Gareth, Jane, Linda, Jan, Sally, Brenda and Ian. |
| Panting slightly less: Alan. |
| A reminder of one of the darker parts of Alderney's history: the memorial stone on the gatepost of Lager Sylt. |
| Monday: Linda, Jan, Terese and Gareth return to the mainland to spend Christmas with families. |
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Photos by Andrew Findlay