jdriveways. But when I look Wednesday, July 30, 1975 THE REViEW Page 3 Butchart Gardens And Chalet Intrigue Visitor From East Coast BY BETSY BADGER ‘There are certain inland views of the Saanich Penin- sula that remind me of my home in New England: the hay fields lined with hedge rows of trees and bushes, the barns, and the children selling raspberries at the end of their seaward I know I’m in dif- ferent country. From my motel porch I see a ferry landing and deep green forested mountains that descend to the bay. It could be the Maine coast, I think, but “ferries’ there are white wooden launches that comect islands to mainland. My hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, is a historic place where many visitors converge, like yours. As a resident of a tourist town I had not taken time to see the at- tractions. There was always work to do, or perhaps in- wardly I believed crowds to be unpleasant. However, before I left for the west coast, I ex- plored Louisa May Alcott's house, Ralph Waldo Emer- son’s home, and walked at dawn over the Old North Bridge, where the American Revolution started exactly 200 years ago with ‘the shot heard round the world”. I have wondered how many 20” COLOUR T.V. FROM 488" Electrohome Zenith Phillips GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE ROWERS ON THEIR DAY WHITES TELEVISION YOUR COMPLETE HOME ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE. 2363 BEACON AVE. Regular 189° $ NOW ONLY CYCLE, 3 HP. ENGINE WITH 19” CUTTING BLADE SPRUCE 2x 4 PRE CUT STUDS 1D‘. 656-3012 AND ALL "THE DELUXE FEATURES YOU WANT 149” residents here have taken time to see the. attractions here on the Saanich peninsula this summer as a visitor would, but perhaps at a time when most people aren't sight- seeing. I heartily recommend it My 13 year old daughter and I went to the Butchart Gar- dens midweek, late in the afternoon, ate supper at 5:30 (after a 10 minute wait), enjoyed the musical en- tertainment at dusk, and the sunken garden and fountain by night lighting. We were occupied with pleasure there for seven hours at a charge of IN A MOWER $5 plus dinner costs. The Chalet atDeep Cove isa treat worth travelling 3,500 miles. At first I thought the manicured lawns overlooking the water, the lush red and white flowers and tidy wooden buildings belonged to an elegant estate. Could this bea restaurant? The word is not to be seen, Eating dinner took the whole of a Sunday evening. We savored the gourmet food. My daughter preferred having the smoked salmon, listed as an hors d’oeuvre, for her main course while I had the specialty of the day. The bill for the two of us was Slightly over $16, very reasonable for such fine food it seemed to me.. We quickly learned ferries should be taken early in the_ morning to avoid waits. THE DEEP COVE CHALET ... one of the most elegant Island. restaurants on Vancouver Taking the Brentwood Bay | ferry on a trip to the Forest Museum in Duncan proved to be a short cut as well as a bargain ($2.50) cruise of local waters. The longer road route back through Victoria provided two memorable attractions: a view over the gulf islands and snow-capped mainland mountains, and a stopover at the Provincial Museum. What a treat to find that quality outweighs quantity there. Farmers have cultivated the Saanich peninsula in such | a way as to make it a joy to see. Now it has become “mine”. Fellow Concordian, Henry David Thoreau, put the thought this way many years ago: “I retained the land- scape, and I have since carried off what it yielded without a wheelbarrow. With respect to landscapes, - ‘Lam monarch of alll survey, — My right there is none to dispute’. I have frequently seen a~ poet withdraw having enjoyed the most valuable part of a farm, while the crusty farmer supposed that he had got a few wild apples only. Why, the owner does not know it for many years when a poet has put his farm in rhyme, the most admirable kind of fence, has fairly impounded it, milked it, skimmed it, and got all the cream, and left the farmer only the skimmed milk”’. The cream of numerous erops is here for us to enjoy — resident and visitor alike. Among the numerous grim remnants of the Third Reich in Germany, perhaps none is more enigmatic than the man whose story is told by Eugene Bird in The Lonliest Man In the World. In this new book, the author, retired U.S. Commandant of Spandau Prison in Berlin, re- examines the case of his most celebrated prisoner, Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. 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