More often than we like to admit, I think, vacations are frustrating affairs: full of missed opportunities, nagging worries, and sunburns. Occasionally, though, the gods of travel smile upon us, and some serendipitous and magical events take place that reaffirm the need to leave your home and country and go a’roaming. Just such an event happened to Marcin Wichary (lead designer and typographer at Medium), who, while looking for the Dali Museum on holiday in Spain, stumbled across a magical, little-known shrine to the typewriter.

What happened next is described in a series of tweets (a truncated version of which we’ve embedded below), but to understand the impact of Wichary’s story you should understand that this is a man who loves…

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