Send Me To Sleep | Bookshops (Voice Only)
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What is Send Me To Sleep and how does Andrew introduce tonight's episode about bookshops?
Hello, it's your host Andrew here. If you're enjoying Send Me To Sleep so far and you'd like to help support the show, the best way to do that is Send Me To Sleep Premium. Over there you'll get ad-free episodes as well as access to all of our bonus episodes. You can find a link to a seven-day free trial in the description notes. Thanks so much for listening and here's just a few ads before the show begins. My partner and I have a funny story that we often think back on and tell to each other from time to time. That was from the last occasion that we were in Cambridge town. Well, it was the last occasion that my partner was there. And, well, it was the last occasion that I was there too, but it also happened to be the first occasion that I'd ever been to Cambridge.
And I would love to go back, you know, because it is a beautiful town. If you're unfamiliar with Cambridge, you know, it's... got something quintessentially British about it. Even though I wouldn't necessarily say that every British town is reflective of the town of Cambridge. In fact, it's probably quite unique in its sort of very old architecture and, you know, quite Gothic style architecture. probably not dissimilar to Oxford as well, but still unique as compared to the broad spectrum of cities across the UK. Most cities I would say in the UK are not quite like Cambridge. It really does have the feeling of Harry Potter, I suppose. I think that's probably why, if you are a tourist coming to the UK, Cambridge is probably one of the places you should go.
Cambridge or Oxford, or both, if you have time, to get that sort of really Like I say, I think what has become quintessentially sort of stereotypical of England, you really get that sort of atmosphere. But as such, it feels like a lovely place to roam around.
Why does Andrew describe Cambridge as a quintessential backdrop for bookshops?
There are narrow cobbled streets and, you know, this beautiful canal that runs through and you can You can get a ride on a gondola along the canal through Cambridge. That is not something that we did whilst we were there, but I've heard that it is something. that is a must for a tourist in that area. I'm sure we'll do that one day. We'll have the opportunity if we go back sometime soon. But the story that we tell ourselves of that time is, I mean, it's not really so much of a story as a funny happenstance that occurred to us as we were wandering around. Now, whenever we go to a new city, especially one that feels quaint and traditional, or if we perhaps go to any small villages that are of course littered throughout the British countryside, I'll often
have the urge to visit a bookshop unfortunately you will quite readily find bookshops in these places that's part of the reason why i like to go to them because i love to wander around a bookshop and i think that's it's something you can relate to but well i'll get into this a little bit more later on but i mean i i think you can understand when I say there is a particular magic around wandering in an old bookshop, especially one that perhaps sells second-hand books or old books. I think modern-day bookshops are well and good, but old books especially fascinate me. is an idea of treasure about them, seeking out and finding something perhaps unique and lost to time for a while. So we were wandering around Cambridge and I said to my partner, you know, I have this feeling I really want to go to a bookshop.
If we see one, I'd love to go to a bookshop. I'd love to go to a really old bookshop. And I feel like Cambridge is bound to have a really old bookshop somewhere. And Just as I say this, my partner points a finger directly forward and says, what about this bookshop? And right next to the door was a wooden boarded sign that said, the oldest book in Britain. Excuse me, the oldest bookshop in Britain. And we couldn't help but laugh in that instance that I just so happened to express such a fervent want for a really old bookshop and to have supposedly come across the oldest bookshop that we possibly could have found in that instance. Hello, by the way.
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