Hay-on-Wye, Book Town in Wales

Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales
Thanks to blogging, I learned about Hay-on-Wye, more specifically thanks to Samantha and her comment on my post ‘Travel and Books, Part 5: Where We Find Them’.
We left northern Wales and made our way to Heathrow Airport via Hay-on-Wye, in southeast Wales on the edge of Brecon Beacons National Park.
A Town of Books
Hay-on-Wye is [...]

Travel and Books Part 5: Where We Find Them

Sydney, Wednesday
In my previous post, Travel and Books Part 4:  No Two Bookshops Are the Same, I described what makes a bookshop great for me, especially when travelling.  We’ve been lucky to find some excellent ones along the way.
Once we’re into the trip, we read more and more local books (or at least we try [...]

Travel and Books Part 4: No Two Bookshops Are the Same

Sydney, Tuesday
One of the joys of travel for me is to find and explore excellent local bookshops.  In Travel and Books Part 3:  Always Room for Another Book, I wrote about airport bookshops.  Purchases there challenge carry-on space.  When it comes to exploring local bookshops while travelling, we’ve learned we need to leave space in our [...]

Travel and Books Part 3: Always Room for Another Book

Sydney, Monday
I like to get to airports early.  Partly this is to get through check-in, passport control, and security without worrying about time.  It’s not just getting through that gauntlet, either.  Clive and I both have a hot button about being forced to walk through one or more duty-free stores just to get to [...]

Travel and Books Part 2: Clive’s Magnificent Trip Book

Not Just an Ordinary Folder

Sydney, Sunday
In “Travel and Books Part 1:  Will There Be Room for Clothes?” I mentioned what I call Clive’s magnificent trip book.  It’s a black folder with plastic insert pages which he increases and decreases as needed.  Its contents are always changing, and it’s different for every trip. 
Clive uses a lot [...]

Travel and Books Part 1: Will There Be Room for Clothes?

Sydney, Saturday
Books are one reason why I can’t seem to achieve my goal of travelling with only a laptop and carry-on bag, and why my checked luggage coming home isn’t as light as it could be.
When you live in Sydney, you get used to long flights to just about everywhere (except to New Zealand [...]