The Book Town

Through our lives we visit many places; over twenty years ago I heard about a village in Wales called Hey On Wye often referred to as the book town. Being a lover of books old and new I went there and found that almost every shop was a bookshop. I spend hours and hours browsing ending up with a number of hard to get books, but when I came home the name of the village escaped me. Over twenty years on my wife and I went on a magical mystery tour. The last day of our holiday we went on a half day excursion and surprise, surprise when we arrived I recognised the place as the book town. Memories flooded back as we strolled around the streets exploring again shop after shop browsing through the hundreds and hundreds of books and my library gained a few more again. 31 July 2014