Book a guided walk through the booktown in mundal village centre. This small norwegian town turns abandoned buildings into. Every abandoned building is a bookstore in this booktown. The selfcatering cottages feature a sofa, tv, fully equipped kitchenette and a. We plan to take the ferry from balestrand to fjaerland, enjoy the scenery, hang around in the book town have lunch and then take the bus to sogndal. The magical book town in norway daily scandinavian. Most of the titles are in norwegian, but there are many englishlanguage books, including some rare ones. Dette er ei liste over stader som kallar seg bokbyar. Bli med pa ein guida tur igjennom bokbyen i mundal sentrum. The idea spread, and there are now book towns all over the world, answering to the needs of book lovers. Vi onskjer a arbeide med eit forprosjekt for a identifisere mulege program og problemstillingar. Book towns, like the whole secondhand book trade, must shift with the times, as must any business.
I mundal ligg og joker butikken, 2 hoteller, kaffistova bokkafe, kyrkja og det er passasjerbat fra balestrand 2 gonger dagleg i hogsesong. Requests by email, post, fax or telephone are served all through the year, and the book town enjoys a lively postal order business. Every available shelter becomes a book store with plenty of. Find books you didnt remember you missed in bookshops you would never imagine, situated in a bewitchingly beautiful spot between fjord and glacier in western norway. The book town is a further development from the traditional antiquarian bookshops, offering a wider variety of books, in a smaller area.
The town started modestly as a book town in 1995 and has grown in both size and attraction, mirroring. On june 2 the annual bookfestival takes place in the booktown. Det er sjolvsagt hove til a vitje unike bokutsal, alt fra enkle bokstativ utandors til ombygde laver og naust. The magical book town in norway bokbyen the book town is home to a collection of whopping 150,000 used books, but theyre no ordinary libraries. Most of the titles are in norwegian, but there are many englishlanguage books, including some rare. Open every day may september closed on 17th of may, but you can buy books online all year round. A storage building containing over one kilometre of book shelves, and the smallest and most honest bookshop in the world. Open kitchen and living room with dining table, sofa and coffee table.
For instance, you can join literary saturdays every week. It consists of various secondhand bookshops, some of them are combined with a cafe, art gallery and souvenirshop. It is a particularly enjoyable gateway to the jostedalsbreen national park, and is close to two glacial tongues understand. Most people come to experience its pair of particularly accessible glacial tongues, supphellebreen and boyabreen, but fj. Outdoor book fair, concerts, litteratureprogramme, food and drink. For more information on bokbyen fjaerland visit their website. A lot of second hand book shops in the middle of nowhere. The bus we intend to take leave from fjaerland kryss. I vinterhalvaret kan me kontaktast pa telefon og epost.
The norwegian book town is an experience out of the ordinary, situated in a bewitchingly beautiful spot between fjord and glacier in western norway. Every available shelter becomes a book store with plenty of english language books to get stuck into. Boyum camping is a holiday park located in fjarland, featuring a garden and a terrace. Sjolvplukk, where you put nok 10 in a box for every book you take. Sep 17, 2018 the magical book town in norway bokbyen the book town is home to a collection of whopping 150,000 used books, but theyre no ordinary libraries. Between may and september, all bookshops are open every day 10am6pm, with numerous events all season. See more ideas about around the worlds, world and bookstore design. Fjaerland hotel a room with a view, inside and out. Learn about the culture, the history and the authentic life of this region. Tvedestrand, on norways southern coast, also brands itself as a book town, and here too you will find secondhand bookshops, guided tours, and a range of events. If you lined the shelves up sidebyside, the towns library would span 2. This page was last edited on 9 november 2018, at 09.
It is located on the northern shore of the sognefjorden in the traditional district of sogn. Bokbyen the book town is home to a collection of whopping. The church in the middle of the centre dates back to 1860. The cute bokbyen norwegian for booktownprides itself on the many used bookstores scattered around, but theyre no ordinary libraries. Find images and videos about love, book and reading on we heart it the app to get lost in what you love. The selfcatering cottages feature a sofa, tv, fully equipped kitchenette and a private bathroom with shower. The cute bokbyennorwegian for booktownprides itself on the many used bookstores scattered around, but theyre no ordinary libraries. Ryan villopoto full moto 2 washougal mx lucas oil pro motocross championship 20 duration. The fjaerland book town was established in 1995 in the tradition of hayonwye and now has 2. Jul 27, 2017 bokbyen is open daily may to september from 10. The bookfair opens at 4 pm, the programme starts with a concert in the church at 3 pm. Eirik bakke born 1977, a retired association football player. There are ten bookshops located around the main square, offering a wide range of titles from rare used books, to new editions covering several topics.
Saturday june 2 is the annual bookfestvial in the booktown. Windir, a norwegian sognametal band whose members all originated in sogndal. You can stroll through the idyllic village and book town, hike the many mountains, visit the glacier museum, see the 1861 fj. Walk in either direction along the fjord and see the 1861 fj. The tiny town has a population of just 300 but is home to a collection of a whopping 150,000 used books. Sogndal is a municipality in vestland county, norway. The book festival is the biggest literary attraction of saintpierredeclages, but you can visit this beautiful book village any time.
Book town organisations and municipalities can be members, but we also have individual members. Dette er ein guida bygdevandring i sjolvaste bokbyen. Shopping in fjaerland norways book town offers some 20,000 books for sale in a dozen or so secondhand shops, which remain open from midmay to the beginning of september from 10am to 6pm daily. Bokby village du livres book town kirjakyla, they are all small villages dominated by the sale of secondhand books. The shops in the norwegian book town are open 10am6pm every day from may to september, every day from 10 am to 6 pm. Requests by email, post, fax or telephone are served all through the year, and the book town enjoys. The kitchen is well equipped, has a stove with three cooking plates, refrigerator, microwave oven and a freezer.
Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Bookshelf porn celebrates our love of books, libraries, bookstores and bookcases by showcasing the best bookshelf photos from around the world. But book lovers, at heart, are explorers and adventurers. And for more on the international book town movement try the international. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. The cute bokbyennorwegian for booktownprides itself on the many used. Boyum campings rooms include access to a communal kitchen and shared bathrooms. Almost every shop in the town sells a range of new and used books, and there is even an honesty book shop, not far from the ferry stop, where books are sold from a stand without any staff. For book towns just starting out we offer the possibility of prospective membership. The norwegian booktown is situated in mundal, the centre of fj. Visit some of the truly unique bookshops, ranging from purposebuilt bookshops to converted stables or boathouses. Mar 18, 2018 the book festival is the biggest literary attraction of saintpierredeclages, but you can visit this beautiful book village any time. Ta kontakt med oss per telefon 57 69 22 10, epost eller brev, og vi leiter etter boka for.