Scotiana

Gosh…Mairiuna….we’ll miss the 2009 Edition of Wigtown Book Festival, but let us not forget to include this major event inside our 2010 itinerary. It’s a must! Very welcoming sign board indeed. Let’s see if I can guess which nationality  lies behind each “Welcome”… Willkommen … gotta be German. Failte … for sure it is Gaelic. [...]

The Wigtown Ploughman Hotel On our next Scottish itinerary, we’ll certainly not leave Scotland without spending a day or two in Wigtown. That’s really a nice little town and of course, as we’ve already mentioned it, a fabulous place to buy books, especially the old ones we are looking for desperately and which have been [...]

Books books books! What insatiable bookworms we are, Janice, ”de vrais rats de bibliothèque” as we would say in France.  Are we going to become like Inspector Rebus?  Remember what Ian Rankin has written about him in Knots & Crosses? Rebus collected unread books. Once upon a time, he had actually read the books that he [...]

As you mentioned in your last post Mairiuna, Glasgow was chosen as the European City of Culture and I would like to emphasis a bit more on this “European” cover by telling you that since the extension was given to the building in the 70′-80′s, The Mitchell Library, one of Glasgow’s landmarks, now houses Europe’s [...]