We booked this self-catering holiday through the Self catering Guernsy website. La Bellieuse consists of two self catering cottages and is part of the Le Douit Farm. From the photos, it looked like an idyllic cottage in a country setting, but the reality turned out to be quite different!

The cottage itself was very quaint and pretty well equipped. It was centrally located in the village of St Martins, which had good supermarkets, restaurants and a nice bakery. On arrival, we were provided with one large-ish towel and one small towel each which had to do us for the week - no fresh towels were provided.

Our big issue was the noise: the cottage actually backed on to quite a busy road. Most of the cars in Guernsey seem to run on diesel, so the traffic noise was quite bad - just what we'd hoped to get away from. We were located right opposite St. Martins Church, whose church bell chimed every 15 minutes 24/7. Before services, the bell rang non-stop for 15 minutes so no... more