Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote >people there. The bookshop is called Librairie Hankard. I photographed it >back in 2001, during one of my >first visits back after moving to Zurich: >http://www.frozenlight.eu/nathanfoto/paw/48.jpg I note the word "Gastronomie" featuring not unexpectedly in your photograph.... :-) >I work. It is a small world indeed. I had a nice chat with her, bought a >book (I am physically incapable of >walking into this kind of bookshop >without buying a book), and took at picture: >http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2356423952&k=h2cRpDP&lb=1&s=O That's a common problem, Nathan. I have got more unread books than I ever realised I could possibly accumulate. The bloody internet wastes more time than anyone could have imagined. When the hordes break down my doors at some time in the future waving their swords, I'll be babbling "Wait a minute, I 'm just googling who finished first in the 1932 500cc Belgian Grand Prix. Oh yes, it was Stanley Woods, and do you know I bought a head gasket for my 1963 Moto Guzzi Zigolo from him in 1969?" Whooosh, bump as my decapitated head bounces on the floor of my office..... Douglas _________ Douglas Barry Bray, Co. Wicklow Republic of Ireland