I live in Portland, Oregon in the US. Powell’s Books is the largest independent bookstore in the world and is located in Portland. If you ever want to expand your book shopping tours to international venues, you should come to Portland.
Great video, thank you. Lovely to see that you are looking around with your family. I have not been to Hey on Wye, but definitely on the list. Good luck with You Tube and look forward to future videos. Thank you, Steve.
Love hay on Wye I go like every few weeks coz it’s only an hour drive!!! I would really recommend it. Good food as well and some lovely book shops especially the first book shop because it has EVERYTHING and when I say everything I mean everything
Bookshop tour videos are so fun to watch and super helpful! I'm visiting Edinburgh for the first time soon so I've been watching a bunch of bookshop videos so that I know where to visit during my trip. Would love to see more of these from you in the future!!
Oh wow! I know there’s a book festival in Hay-on-Wye but never realised that it’s such a bookish place! It’s defo going on my ‘weekend away list’ for sure! Thank you for taking us with you to all the shops you visited 🙌 loved this! 📚❤️ Bookshops: Toppings Booksellers & Mr B’s Book Emporium in Bath and the Speaking Tree in Glastonbury are all very charming & awesome ☺️
This vlog reminded me why I love my beloved beautiful quaint England so much (I am curious how they manage to keep those huge outdoor bookshelves dry when it rains). Just discovered your booktube channel and had to subscribe Meg. Your personality is adorable. Sending love and best wishes for your channel from Manchester.💕
this was such a beautiful video, meg! it makes me miss travelling soooooo much (I'm all the way in Australia and we can't go anywhere!) thanks for offering a bit of escape x
The book you picked up I have one of the other books in that series in hardcover, if you want I can send it to you. DM me on Instagram and I will send you a picture and if you do like it then you are welcome to it and you might be able to get the others in hardback as they do all look amazing
That looked like a real dream of the day! I hope you stopped for good snacks to help your endurance through that marathon. Devil in the White City started a tiny bit slow for me (when I first read it 10ish years ago) but I got into it, and it has really stuck with me as a favorite book of all time.
What a lovely video! I always love bookshop vlogs but knowing this is a entire city of then is a dream come true haha My 2 favourite bookshops I’ve been to so far are Shakespeare and Co the infamous bookshop just besides Notre Dame in Paris, but my absolute favourite one is very near and is called the Abbey Bookshop, it’s an indépendant Canadian second hand bookshop and it’s so cozy and crawling with books from floor to ceiling!
📚 I loved the video - wow definitely adding Hay on Wye to my list of places to visit. I would love to see more videos from you exploring bookshops so hope you will do more. By the way I have read Devil in the White City it is a fascinating read, scary and interesting at the same time.
i’m going here at the end of the month for my birthday. if you want an awesome bookshop i completely recommend Mr B’s Emporium in Bath. it’s incredible there🤩
What a great little town. I'm in Phoenix, Arizona and my favorite independent bookshop near me is Changing Hands. But, if you're a lover of thrillers, a must-visit is The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale (also pretty close to me). Many thriller/adventure writers have book-signings at TPP.
Hi Meg, I’m moving to England in October to study my master’s. I have been a bit nervous the last couple of days, but this video was lovely and made me feel so excited to be there soon. 🍂🍁 I started reading the Murder in paradise series by Thorogood, great cozy mysteries!
This place looks amazing! I think my favorite bookshop is a tie between The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles and The Montague Bookmill in Montague, Massachusetts. But I would certainly love to visit this town someday! 📚
Fab tour and haul. Can you tell me where you stayed as I will be planning a trip for my birthday and this destination has jumped to the front of the queue. 📚😍😍😍😍
Love love love the aesthetics in this video! Didn't even know such a town existed and will be putting it on my bucket list of places to visit. Please make more videos like this one! 📚😍 My favorite bookstore is my local indie called Mysterious Galaxy! They're a genre fiction bookstore with all the amazing author events :D
My favorite bookshop is the Dominicanen book church in Maastricht! It's such a beautiful bookstore and I visit it frequently since I live in Maastricht. Leora from books with leo recently filmed a vlog going there :)
My local area actually has amazing charity shops for books, earlier this year I bought a new paperback ('The Book Club'), £5-6, just 4 months later see it in a charity shop (as new) 50p. Last year another one had a hard copy of My Dark Vanessa for £1. I'd have to take public transport 8-10 miles away (different region - covid restrictions) to get to a book shop, so in the last year, I've been going to local charity shops and filling an entire rucksack with books for £7-15, of course this means my TBR is now.....ambitious does not even cover it.
Incredibly lovely place for all bibliophiles to spend a lazy long weekend. Stay in a cottage, eat local farm food and browse the many independent bookstores and artisanal boutiques. I too highly recommend Hay On Wye. One single criticism I have though, is that bookstores and their owners MUST start to offer more balanced options in sections like sociology, politics, history, modern philosophy as it's beginning to read like snobby social engineering: Every bookstore I went into in Hay was outrageously biased towards the Marxist, 'woke CRT-intersectionist' mentality, which I found disgraceful and enormously disappointing. I would like to push myself and learn, not consume curated propaganda. Other than that, it's a little corner of heaven. Beautiful countryside, especially if you love forests and trees (note: Puzzlewood, totally worth the effort of a day trip as it takes about an hour or so south of Hay but is stunning, like your childhood fairy tales come to life). Thank you for this charming video. :) Edinburgh is another great place to go second-hand book shopping. I flew there for a week after watching a particularly impressive RUclips video, much like this one. Wield your power carefully, your viewers really do act on their enthusiasm for what you showcase, ahahaha!
I want to envy those who don't have to wake up to the noise of mosques and street vendors But I'd rather not have that kind of taste in books. Ah the cringe.
I live close (ish) to Hay-on-Wye so it's always so weird when people I watch visit. Very lucky to be able to visit often.
Ahhhh you’re so lucky!!!
So jealous, that town looks like a dream ❤️
I wanna go back already🥺
Perchance to dream........
Okay but that opening shot is so cute !!!!
thank uuuuuu🥺🥺🥺
I was here just two weeks ago! I live only an hour away luckily 😊
Wow! This is such a wonderful place: heaven to me! 🤩 Thanks a million for showing us your visit to this town. 🤗
Thank you for watching!💖💖
I live in Portland, Oregon in the US. Powell’s Books is the largest independent bookstore in the world and is located in Portland. If you ever want to expand your book shopping tours to international venues, you should come to Portland.
adding a visit to the town to my bucket list. i would need at least 1 hr per bookshop to appreciate every one lol
Thank you so much for these resplendent bookshop tours around you area, I really fancy touring these bookshops one day.
They were all amazing. ;)
Wow! So many lovely bookshops. Would love to see more bookshop tours.
Great video, thank you. Lovely to see that you are looking around with your family. I have not been to Hey on Wye, but definitely on the list. Good luck with You Tube and look forward to future videos. Thank you, Steve.
This has to be the cutest little town EVER!!!
Great video! Loved every minute of it! 💜💜💜
Thank youuuu!!💖💖💖
📚Please do more of these videos! My favorite bookstore is Shakespeare and Company in Paris
Would be a dreaaaam to go there!!
WOW! Bucket list goals for sure. Someday I will go there.
Oh my goodness! My favorite place in the world! I had the honor of going with my husband in 2010! Cannot wait to go back!
📚 Very enjoyable! Your enthusiasm is infectious. Thanks for creating this content. More book shopping trips in interesting places please. :-)
I think I will have to also visit there 😊 as about a 2 hour drive from where I live 😍📚
📚📚 and all I’ve been to is Barnes and noble and second hand books
I had to re watch this as I’m going to Hay on Wye in June!! So excited! 🙌📚😍
I went there literally this week! Just a week or so after you by the looks of it! ❤️
Hahaha twinsssss
This town is my actual heaven wow 😍😍😍
obsessed with this town
Love hay on Wye I go like every few weeks coz it’s only an hour drive!!! I would really recommend it. Good food as well and some lovely book shops especially the first book shop because it has EVERYTHING and when I say everything I mean everything
Yes please more bookshop videos! As somebody from America I love to watch these!
📚📚📚 what a great video! Loved this, please do more of this. Probably will never go this village, but one can dream😃😃
Glastonbury is also nice and has some lovely bookshops 😊
Oh my gosh this was heaven
This was the best! I loved seeing the town and all the bookshops. I would love for you to continue and make this a series.
Devil in the White City is soooooo good!
This video was so fun to watch! If you can, please do more. 💜📚📖
I would love to go there one day! It looks beautiful and so aesthetic! ❤️ 🌸
I wish I was there right now haha!
I would suggest Hay-on-Wye be twinned with Wigtown, but apparently it's already twinned with Timbuktu (TimBOOKtu?)!
so wild! I am moving to the UK and heard about this town. Of course, I immediately looked up directions and started planning a day trip 😁
Bookshop tour videos are so fun to watch and super helpful! I'm visiting Edinburgh for the first time soon so I've been watching a bunch of bookshop videos so that I know where to visit during my trip. Would love to see more of these from you in the future!!
Its been so long since I went to a bookshop😩... But I got all the Amazing book shopping vibes from this vid😍
yayyy im glad you could live vicariously through me💕💕
had such a blast watching this!! predicted from the very first store that you’d call them all your favourites lol 📚
Can't wait to visit. Hopefully going to the book festival next May. Definitely would love this to be a series.
You need to come and visit the Bookbarn in Somerset, big secondhand book place 😊
The Book nook in Maple Lake Minnesota is a fun little used book shop. But in the States not a lot of quaint book shops
📚 I loved this video! My favorite bookstore is The Book Loft of German Village in Columbus Ohio! 📚
My favorite bookshop is The Strand, but in a town close to me they just opened the most adorable tiny bookshop that I am so excited about 📚
aaaaaaah I need that edition of the night circus!
Great video, I need to go there at some point!
My favorite bookstore is The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles. It's beautiful, in an old bank and has everything you could think of!
I already really wanted to go here and now the need is so much bigger! These bookshops look amazing!!
Definitely adding this town to my bucket list!!
Oh wow! I know there’s a book festival in Hay-on-Wye but never realised that it’s such a bookish place! It’s defo going on my ‘weekend away list’ for sure! Thank you for taking us with you to all the shops you visited 🙌 loved this! 📚❤️ Bookshops: Toppings Booksellers & Mr B’s Book Emporium in Bath and the Speaking Tree in Glastonbury are all very charming & awesome ☺️
This vlog reminded me why I love my beloved beautiful quaint England so much (I am curious how they manage to keep those huge outdoor bookshelves dry when it rains). Just discovered your booktube channel and had to subscribe Meg. Your personality is adorable. Sending love and best wishes for your channel from Manchester.💕
~Fun video--good info ... Thanks!
okay now I really want to visit this town!! 🤩
This is our happy place
this was such a beautiful video, meg! it makes me miss travelling soooooo much (I'm all the way in Australia and we can't go anywhere!) thanks for offering a bit of escape x
Soooo I’m gonna move here ✨
I’m in love with this town ohmygoodness ….
I lived in Wales for years and I never knew about Hay. So annoyed with myself right now. Looks like I know where I'll be going on holiday. 😂 📚xxx
I love Heffers in Cambridge and Harbour Books in Whitstable.
If you like mystery thriller books I recommend you to read ''Eene meenee'' I am not sure how to write it by M.J.Arlidge
Awesome keep on
Thank you!!
📚 I would LOVE more bookshop vlogs! 😍🥰
Definitely feel the journalism major coming out lol
This video is my absolute dream? Lucky bugger, hope you had the best time.
I need this place on my bucket list of U.K. things to do x
The book you picked up I have one of the other books in that series in hardcover, if you want I can send it to you. DM me on Instagram and I will send you a picture and if you do like it then you are welcome to it and you might be able to get the others in hardback as they do all look amazing
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the biggest second hand bookshop in the UK is baggins book bazaar in rochester i’m pretty sure :)
i hope i can visit hay-on-wye someday!! glad i learned about it from this video
That looked like a real dream of the day! I hope you stopped for good snacks to help your endurance through that marathon. Devil in the White City started a tiny bit slow for me (when I first read it 10ish years ago) but I got into it, and it has really stuck with me as a favorite book of all time.
What a lovely video! I always love bookshop vlogs but knowing this is a entire city of then is a dream come true haha
My 2 favourite bookshops I’ve been to so far are Shakespeare and Co the infamous bookshop just besides Notre Dame in Paris, but my absolute favourite one is very near and is called the Abbey Bookshop, it’s an indépendant Canadian second hand bookshop and it’s so cozy and crawling with books from floor to ceiling!
📚 I loved the video - wow definitely adding Hay on Wye to my list of places to visit. I would love to see more videos from you exploring bookshops so hope you will do more. By the way I have read Devil in the White City it is a fascinating read, scary and interesting at the same time.
📚 well this made me wail in envy...
That is on my wish place to go, but I might go after finishing my unread (witch is about nine books)
I loved this video! Please do more, I want to see ALL the bookstores in the UK 📚📚📚📚📚
i’m going here at the end of the month for my birthday. if you want an awesome bookshop i completely recommend Mr B’s Emporium in Bath. it’s incredible there🤩
📚 Barter Books in Alnwick! A converted railway station full of second hand books. It's massive!
So the legends are true... Heaven is real! 😇 You just found my retirement town. Specially love the murder mayhem!
Oh my word I loved this!! Wish it was closer to me 😭 📚
What a great little town. I'm in Phoenix, Arizona and my favorite independent bookshop near me is Changing Hands. But, if you're a lover of thrillers, a must-visit is The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale (also pretty close to me). Many thriller/adventure writers have book-signings at TPP.
Hi Meg, I’m moving to England in October to study my master’s. I have been a bit nervous the last couple of days, but this video was lovely and made me feel so excited to be there soon. 🍂🍁 I started reading the Murder in paradise series by Thorogood, great cozy mysteries!
This place looks amazing! I think my favorite bookshop is a tie between The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles and The Montague Bookmill in Montague, Massachusetts. But I would certainly love to visit this town someday! 📚
I loved this video!
All your hard work at uni is paying off. Very professional looking video! :) My bet is that you'll enjoy The Essex Serpent. I hope I'm right :p
I loved this so much! I kinda wanna live there now.
Fab tour and haul. Can you tell me where you stayed as I will be planning a trip for my birthday and this destination has jumped to the front of the queue. 📚😍😍😍😍
I love Hay ❤️ I went for my birthday last year, and I really want to go to the festival one day!
So jealous! One day.
Love love love the aesthetics in this video! Didn't even know such a town existed and will be putting it on my bucket list of places to visit. Please make more videos like this one! 📚😍 My favorite bookstore is my local indie called Mysterious Galaxy! They're a genre fiction bookstore with all the amazing author events :D
My favorite bookshop is the Dominicanen book church in Maastricht! It's such a beautiful bookstore and I visit it frequently since I live in Maastricht. Leora from books with leo recently filmed a vlog going there :)
📚 Recycled Books in Dallas and 1/4 Priced books in Houston Texas! They have such a unique selection of books!
ARE YOU KIDDING THIS IS MY DREAM DESTINATION I AM SO JEALOUS
I study in Hereford and I want to go to Hay on Wye SO BAD!!
My local area actually has amazing charity shops for books, earlier this year I bought a new paperback ('The Book Club'), £5-6, just 4 months later see it in a charity shop (as new) 50p. Last year another one had a hard copy of My Dark Vanessa for £1. I'd have to take public transport 8-10 miles away (different region - covid restrictions) to get to a book shop, so in the last year, I've been going to local charity shops and filling an entire rucksack with books for £7-15, of course this means my TBR is now.....ambitious does not even cover it.
I need to go here this Is like my own utopia
Book..... town? 😍😭😭😭
At 14:15 yes
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I really want to visit here 😍 whats it like for parking?
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Barns and Noble is mine
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Incredibly lovely place for all bibliophiles to spend a lazy long weekend. Stay in a cottage, eat local farm food and browse the many independent bookstores and artisanal boutiques. I too highly recommend Hay On Wye. One single criticism I have though, is that bookstores and their owners MUST start to offer more balanced options in sections like sociology, politics, history, modern philosophy as it's beginning to read like snobby social engineering: Every bookstore I went into in Hay was outrageously biased towards the Marxist, 'woke CRT-intersectionist' mentality, which I found disgraceful and enormously disappointing. I would like to push myself and learn, not consume curated propaganda. Other than that, it's a little corner of heaven. Beautiful countryside, especially if you love forests and trees (note: Puzzlewood, totally worth the effort of a day trip as it takes about an hour or so south of Hay but is stunning, like your childhood fairy tales come to life). Thank you for this charming video. :) Edinburgh is another great place to go second-hand book shopping. I flew there for a week after watching a particularly impressive RUclips video, much like this one. Wield your power carefully, your viewers really do act on their enthusiasm for what you showcase, ahahaha!
I want to envy those who don't have to wake up to the noise of mosques and street vendors
But I'd rather not have that kind of taste in books.
Ah the cringe.