"Have you ever wondered why the crime rate in Sandford is so low, yet the accident rate is so high?" Sargeant Angel, Hot Fuzz

We arrived at Hay on Wye late in the afternoon. People were going about their everyday business as usual. Nothing seemed out of sorts. Our B&B was cozy and very central, positioned just across the road from the town square where the clock tower chimed on the hour and then again every 15 minutes..... all through the day and night! Our hosts were very accommodating, which led us into a somewhat false sense of normality in the town.

The following day we ventured into the village to peruse the 30 bookshops. Each shop we entered made us more aware that the locals here in the village were a little....... different.

Do we detect a little bit of snobbery in some of the high fallutin bookshops?


Is there a secret society here amongst the literary villagers that the mere visitor is not privy to?


At least at the end of each long day of wandering and wondering we were able to return to our lovely B&B which included one of the most fabulous gardens we've ever seen. This is where 5sies were spent sipping a glass of wine before dinner at the local pub.

This is the last stop in Wales.......... tomorrow is goodbye to Jodie and Hello to Copenhagen and the Baltic Sea.