I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

I am incapable of passing a bookstore without going in, and rarely leave empty handed. The smell and feel of a good book send shivers of delight down my spine. Seems in Hay-on-Wye I found my Mecca; the town with more second-hand bookstores than anything else.   

The town lies on the east bank of the River Wye and is within the Brecon Beacons National Park, just north of the Black Mountains.  The town is situated just within the Welsh side of the border with Hereford, England (birthplace of my great grandfather), Hay-on-Wye is a small Welsh town considered the world’s first official “book town”.  

Sounding something out of a fairytale where the streets are paved with novels and the residents speak in literary quotations I spent the good part of three days wandering around in a book-blind daze, meandering through the quaint small streets and surrounding countryside.  Magnificently Majestic!