Today is Sunday. We went for a very quick trip to town. Its really is quite glorious today. The sun is really shining. Though still a bit cold, mid-day temperature was about 12 Deg. Celsius. The shops are opened in the Centre of The Hague every Sunday from 12 till 5 pm. There is only one big book store that we know of here that got a large stock of English books. Every now and then the kids need replenishing their book shelves, so off we went to buy some books. Fiz and Ish are quick readers - takes 1 to 2 days to finish a book. So in between library books, they also want something new out there. 
Apart from this shop, there is a Waterstones store in Amsterdam. Otherwise it is down to our odd trips to London to grab a good supply of books for the kids. While waiting for the kids to choose their books, I saw this book - Ghost Wars by Steve Coll - about the secret history of CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden. It was the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize according to the front cover. This should be a good read to kill the time while commuting on the tram to work.
2 comments:
Salaam
Can't help noticing that u and ur kids love books. We do too but sometimes the prices in Waterstone (in England) are quite expensive.
Have you tried ebay.co.uk? U can get some cheap and new books. Some UK sellers do ship to Europe.
Salaam as well. No we are not really tempted to buy books online. We always take it as a good excuse to go out to the bookstore and see what else we are not aware of. Thank for the advice.
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