Most of March 2025 was spent on a long, circuitous journey that brought me to two cities in Norway, one in Germany, and two in Spain. The journey was occasioned by two conferences, one in Hamburg and one in Salamanca, and since these conferences were quite close in time but not close enough to warrant a more direct itinerary, I decided to spend the majority of three weeks travelling, spending my nights variously at hotels or at the houses of kind friends. It was an eventful and lovely trip, and I returned home much richer than when I left, as is always the case when I have been inundated with impressions, food, new knowledge, and the joy of friendships new and old. And when I have purchased new books.
This time around, I was heroically restrained in my book-buying adventures. Partly, my restraint was due to a rather tight schedule, where so much of my time was spent either at conferences on en route to them, or meeting up with friends along the way. For instance, I found no time to peruse the numerous bookshops that I passed when hurrying to and from the conference locale in Salamanca, and I just managed to purchase an edition of Lazarillo de Tormes that I happened to see displayed outside one of them. Partly, however, the restraint was guided by practical matters, as I was travelling with a large suitcase for three weeks, and I wanted that suitcase to remain manageable throughout the journey. Even so, I did manage to add a few valuable tomes - valuable to me, that is - to my still-too-miniscule book collection. The haul is shown below, containing items from Hamburg, Bergen, Salamanca, and Madrid.
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