Looking through to the Victor Hugo bench…

Victor Hugo had already spent four years in exile when he landed in Guernsey. The writer was effectively forced to meander the world when he dared denounce Napoleon III's coup d'état. He fled to Brussels in 1851, then to Jersey, where he stayed from 1852 to 1855, before mooring in St Peter Port on 31 October 1855.
I’m not a fan of his books because he was one of those people who wouldn’t use one word if he could find ten instead! And probably people are not very aware of any of his works except Les Miserables which he wrote while in Guernsey.
The two buildings in the foreground are a pub to the left and the Town Church to the right. And I believe we still hold the record in the Guinness Book of Records ( now online of course) for the closest place in the British Isles that a church is to a pub. Both buildings are built in a way that means the are stepped outwards above head height so are much closer together than this pic shows