I went to a book fair today with my new friend V. It was in a town outside of Leuven, held in an enormous building the size of an airplane hangar. Millions and millions of books on every subject you can imagine, and all at drastically reduced prices... In short, it was my own personal heaven. :)
Luckily, 85% of the books were in Dutch, or I might still be there. But there were 5 long rows of English language novels, and there were English books mixed in with all of the other sections as well. I spent the first hour and a half just looking at books for myself, and it didn't take long to fill my basket! I'm not going to list all the books I got, but I'll just say I am set for books for awhile and I'll have trouble deciding which to read first!
After a brief rest and a coffee, we got back to it and discovered an entire other room as large as the first filled with children's books, craft stuff and games. Luna got a whole pile of books, most of which have flaps to lift, buttons to push for sound, or textures to feel. She even got a couple in English! She loved them all, and was upset when I took them away. It was perfect timing for her, because she's been obsessed with books lately.
On the way there, we took the highway (not intentionally, the GPS ignored V's preferences), but on the way back we took smaller roads and I got a unique perspective of Belgium I had not experienced before. Since we do not have a car, I see only the parts of the country visible from the railways or on foot. Today I saw strip malls, drive-thru restaurants, enormous car lots, and dozens of other things I've never seen here before. It was so... familiar.
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