Hemingway's by the Sea in Victoria BC

One rainy Spring afternoon, I walk from my place beneath gentle showers of pink cherry blossoms to Hemingway's by the Sea, a lofty Tudor-style Mansion, on the West side of Victoria. A robin is taking a furtive puddle-bath in the driveway. Another one is singing in the Garden. The salty wind is picking up, blowing in from Fleming Beach. I go to the side door and ring the bell, already starting to feel like I've just traveled to some exotic country, that I'm arriving somewhere in Europe or Africa or South America. And I've just walked a few blocks!

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