Hay on Wye

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

I'll just add that I'm here (sometimes), but I haven't been to
Hay-on-Wye but of course I've heard all about its bookshops
and its literary festival - which put it on the map, really.
There are imitators...

As for the bookshops, with the bibliomanic state of my household
already I don't think I _dare_ go to Hay-on-Wye.  Even rare visits
to Whitby (I've a sister there) are dangerous in that respect.

I listen a lot to BBC Radio 4 (it's online if non-British want
to sample it at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4), and over the weekend in
question it seemed that everyone on the station was going to
the Hay-on-Wye festival, or had already been.  It comes across
almost as an intellectual Ascot.

Robert Carnegie
Meretricious!  (and top-posting, when in Rome as they say)

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> Forgive me for jumping in here, but I have visited Hay on Wye several 
> times and I love it.  It is a bibliophile's paradise - as many, if 
> not more, bookshops than Charing Cross Road and its environs.    The 
> only problem is, practically every time I have been there it has 
> rained.  There are also pros and cons to going during the festival 
> (was a couple of weeks ago) - great for booksignings, readings etc. 
> but very difficult to find somewhere to stay and very crowded - not 
> easy to get down to some serious browsing.
> 
> Catherine
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., heidi <heidit at n...> wrote:
> > A question about nothing inflamatory about your post - have you 
> *been* to Hay on Wye? My husband & I are complete bibliomaniacs and 
> were thinking of going later this year or next spring - is it as 
> wonderful as the travel mags suggest?
> > 
> > I am moving this question to HP4GU OT Chatter, where it's an 
> appropriate question...(and Robert, if you're not a member yet, I 
> hope you join!)
> > 
> > rja.carnegie at e... wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > I have no idea where (who?) Ann Arbor is, whether it's America's
> > > Hay-on-Wye or whatever, and I also strongly suspect that I'm
> > > generally more gullible than most folks.