Saturday we took the tube to Leicester Square (sounds like Lester) to go to a photo gallery. Sharon went with us. The gallery was good but most of the pictures were quite depressing. One section was a slide show of pics taken across America during the 60's of extreme poverty situations. Another was pictures about life for women and children in India. There was written commentary which was about how women are often beaten if they don't produce boy babies and how often girl babies are killed just for being a girl. So we were needing a little of a boost. So after a coffee in an Italian cafe, we went to a quaint little bookshop on Charing Cross road. Charing Cross is famous for it's bookshops. This one is really old and it was like going through a maze once you were inside. It continued to weave down to the basement where we found books for 1/2 off the marked price, and often the marked price was already 1/2 off. The floors were old and dipped and creaky. And I found a book for only 3 1/2 pounds. ($7) So I had something to read on the way home on the tube. Here is Ed and Sharon in the basement looking through all the deals.
It had a real musty smell to it which made it feel even more like an old shop.
If someone would come through the hall, you had to either squeeze up against the books or find a little nook to step into so they could pass by.
3 comments:
What cool pics of you guys. It looks like a fun outing. And Ed's shoes are so far from geek.
Tonya
Ohh, what a neat way to spend an afternoon (minus the depressing pictures). I love bookshops!
Boy do I miss those quaint shops... Nothing really like that here....
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