WanderShopper’s Around the World in 52 Books Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com With February coming to an end, so is the second month of the Around the World in 52 Books challenge. I decided to join WanderLit on her WanderLit World Tour, a quest to read a book representing a different country each week of the […]
Archives for February 2013
Visit an Artisan Weavers Village in Oaxaca, Mexico
Artisans in the village of Teotitlan del Valle, in southern Mexico, have been weaving rugs as their ancestors have for centuries. Found just east of Oaxaca City off the main road to popular archeological sites of Yagul and Mitla and just a little past El Tule, the giant super cypress tree, Teotitlan del Valle is […]
An American Shakespeare in Paris: Discovering an English Bookstore in the City of Light
Discover an American Shakespeare in Paris, Shakespeare and Company, if you are on the hunt for an English bookstore in the City of Light. In 1951, American expat George Whitman opened his bookstore, then Le Mistral, with some of the books he had collected while a student at the Sorbonne. In 1964, Whitman changed it […]