Hot Off the Press…

Hot Off the Press…

…my picture of the statue of the renaissance man who invented it – Johannes Gutenberg – standing proudly in the square named after him in the centre of Strasbourg. Gutenberg was a goldsmith by profession and modified existing screw printers while adding...

In Praise of Books

While we were noodling around in France we visited Charite sur Loire, a town devoted entirely to books (and pilgrimages – it’s a way station on the route to Compostella, and as reading is a kind of pilgrimage, a journey of faith in the hope of acquiring...