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05/24/2003 Archived Entry: "A book lover's heaven on earth"

IF THERE IS A HEAVEN, IT'S IN HAY-ON-WYE: Hay-On-Way in Wales is a book lovers paradise:

Hay is home to 1,500 people -- and about 40 used book stores.

"There are more books per head of population in this town than in any other town in the world," says Richard Booth, who opened Hay's first book store more than 40 years ago. "Put them all together, we offer a better service than the British Library."

For book lovers, Hay is seductive. The shops range from dusty paperback caverns to specialists in children's books, poetry, art, travel and languages. Murder and Mayhem concentrates on thrillers, Boz books on Dickens.

For those tired of browsing, Hay has cozy pubs, good restaurants, historic inns and a ruined medieval castle perched in the middle of town.

Books, pubs and restaurants? I could live there forever. Read on.

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Wonderful! Thank you.

Posted by Richard A. Heddleson @ 05/25/2003 08:50 PM EST