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[skygiants]

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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[dimestore_romeo]

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.

[skygiants]

This is like you explaining to me how you used to just pop over into Diagon Alley every couple of years to go shopping. It's fine, it's fine! No big.

[dimestore_romeo]

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.