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skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote2014-12-10 11:42 pm

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[profile] alassa_irena asked me about a place I would like to go for the December meme,, and -- well, I mean, lots of places, SO MANY places, but if I could pick one place and one place alone --

-- okay, I'm down to the wire for getting this post in while it's still technically the 10th, but a picture is worth a thousand words, right?







SO BEAUTIFUL IT'S PRACTICALLY INDECENT.

I had to google 'Welsh book town' to find these, because I knew it existed but I couldn't remember the name of it. It turns out the name of it is Hay-on-Wye. I WANT TO GO THERE. The dream is real.
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[personal profile] bookblather 2014-12-11 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
.....

I want to go to there.
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[personal profile] lacewood 2014-12-11 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
I REALLY WANT TO VISIT THIS TOWN TOO. *____* One day, Wales, I will come for you. ONE DAY.
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[personal profile] hafl 2014-12-11 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
I went there at the end of my trip to Britain in 2012. I'm really glad for currency exchange rates, because that way, it took about a week until I realized I spent more money on books that I would make in two months.
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[personal profile] luzula 2014-12-11 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
But...what if it starts raining? All those poor books!
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[personal profile] brooms 2014-12-11 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
i was about to say that i hope the weather is dry, but it's in the british isles. and you can see moss and vegetation growing at the bottom of the shelves.

maybe the books are bought quickly and don't stay in the shelves for long.
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[personal profile] luzula 2014-12-11 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it would be pretty damp even with the tarps. I don't know, I can't really focus on the pretty in those pictures because I get worried about the books getting wet. Maybe I should consider a career as an archivist. : )
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[personal profile] raven 2014-12-11 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's Hay! Such a lovely part of the world.
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[personal profile] raven 2014-12-11 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I've spent my entire life in the UK, more or less, and there are huge swathes of it I haven't seen. I really should do something about it!
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[personal profile] lnhammer 2014-12-11 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, if that's supposedly Wales, why is the sky blue?

Books kept outdoors in Wales? *wimpers*
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[personal profile] dimestore_romeo 2014-12-11 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hay-on-Wye is really great! I used to pop over there every couple of years with an epic obscure book list so I could come home with bagsful of weird retro scifi and Storm Constantine novels.

One of the bookshops is an old cinema, and to get to some of the top floor rooms you have to take staircases from the cellar!

SO GREAT.
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[personal profile] dimestore_romeo 2014-12-11 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, I only live about an hour and a half away. It's a bit tricky to get to because it gets very, very rural over that way, but worth it (you pass signs to heritage monuments such as "Arthur's Stone", a neolithic chambered tomb...)! It is very, very cool.
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[personal profile] obopolsk 2014-12-12 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
I went there with a friend from my Welsh class in late 2007, and it was wonderful. I very much want to go back.
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[personal profile] alasse_irena 2014-12-16 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, many boooooks.

(I sort of hope it doesn't rain too much in this place? Or maybe they put the books away somewhere. Who knows...)