Fire razes Hemingway island haunt

[emad]

A hotel known as a haunt of US novelist Ernest Hemingway has been destroyed in a fire in the Bahamas.

The blaze broke out on Friday morning at the Compleat Angler on the island of Bimini, 50 miles (80km) off Florida.

Owner Julian Brown was presumed dead. There were no immediate reports of other casualties in the incident.

The flames also consumed memorabilia housed in the hotel's museum on the famous writer, who worked there on to Have and Have Not in the 1930s.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4611956.stm

[Jara sang]

1. That sucks.

Never got a chance to go there.

[reelcobra]

2. That sucks majorly

The place was supposed to be a great hangout with history all over the place.