Tourists. Please Note. This is Private Property ...reads a notice outside one of Jersey's magnificent manor houses. To most tourists Jersey means scenery, sea and sunshine, rich retired and cheap cigarettes. The Portuguese immigrant workers there see the island in a different light.
Portugal, Europe's most underdeveloped country, provides the bulk of the vital work-force that services the leisure industries that make paradise possible. But to a Portuguese waiter it's a very odd sort of paradise.