Nabokov

Petersburg is the perfect place to be reading Speak, Memory.  Nabokov describes how, in his family's city house on Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa, the sound of a chrysanthemum petal falling on a marble table would make his nerves 'twang'.  I'm struggling to remember the sound of a chrysanthemum petal falling in Meols.  We may not have time to visit the Nabokov Museum in the family's city residence on Большая Морская Улица, but it's nice to know it's there.