05 February 2008

Cartagena bookstores

All of the books we bought on this Hay Festival trip were purchased at the Librería Paideia. We discovered another great little place that sold books and music, Forum Discos y Libros (as we were leaving). But most of our time was spent at Ábaco Libros y Café for the following reasons...







6 comments:

Anonymous said...

A real live bookstore! It looks like a bookstore all right. And you were actually in it! Amazing!

amcorrea said...

Yes, actually. They are very rare here, so each one is a miracle.

Brook said...

oh, that's a bookstore? I thought maybe it was a picture of your room...
:-)
(nice pics. I hope you didn't leave too big a puddle of drool at the entrance as you stood there for the first time in what was probably a dazed stupor, followed I'm sure by much inappropriate skipping and squealing and attempts to hi-five the top shelves...)

amcorrea said...

That about sums it up!

Anonymous said...

I remember Ábaco from my visit to Cartagena last year. What a delightful bookstore!

amcorrea said...

Isn't it? And on the perfect corner just a block away from the Teatro Heredia!