La Coupee
A horse and cart carefully make their way across a causeway on the way from Big Sark to Little Sark. The two are separated by a narrow isthmus 100 yard only and 260 feet above the sea. Until the concrete track was built by German Prisoners of war in 1946 people had to carefully traverse the very dangerous 3 foot wide path without even a handrail until 1900. Children crawled across on hands and kness on their way to school in stormy weather and occasionally people plunged to their death. Eventually the two will become separate islands when the isthmus collapses.
Sark is often described as being the island where time stands still and one can feel as if they are back in the olden days. With no cars on Sark, old tractors carry out any transportation of goods or people and apart from bikes there are only horses and carts. Tractors and trailers meet the ferry and most people travel up the hill to the village centre on a trailer rather than the walk through the woods.
Away from the crowds as we walked along little lanes and cliff footpaths it was easy to feel as if we were back in past times.