Welcome to Wigtown – Scotland’s National Book Town
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!
Wigtown-Scotland's National Book Town
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.
Bienvenue … can’t miss this one as it is my native tongue: French.
Benvenuto … seems Italian to me.
Welkom … would guess Dutch.
Bienvenido… hum..absolutely, no clue. Let me google it. Well,well, well .. it is Spanish.
I’ll go to bed more vocabulary fluent tonight. 
Upon browsing through our photos , I thought it would be fun to share some more with our readers, but just before I insert them below, I’d like to invite you to view a => short video <= in which John Robertson, Project Manager of Wigtown Book Town, explains how Wigtown became Scotland’s National Book Town and what it’s like today.
The Book Shop - Wigtown
Now that we are more familiar with the story behind Wigtown, let’s tour inside The Book Shop, Scotland’s largest second hand bookshop with more than a mile long of shelving supporting approximately 65,000 books and which also happens to be the oldest bookshop in Wigtown !
The Book Shop - Wigtown
The Book Shop - Wigtown
This shop is a work of art.
George Galloway MP
The Book Shop - Squeleton - Wigtownm
Scottish Room - The Book Shop - Wigtown
Scottish Room - The Book Shop - Wigtown
Wilson's Tales of the Borders
In the complete overwhelming experience of discovering so many books in one place, while getting to discover antiquarian, old and out-of-prints books, I simply sat down on the floor and went through the books, one by one, torn by the idea of having to leave some behind. If I would have listened to myself, my return flight to Quebec would have tripled in cost just for the excess luggage weight. But, nevertheless, I bought, amongst others, a big old illustrated edition of Wilson’s Tales of The Border. I couldn’t resist!
The Bookshop - Wigtown
The Book Shop - Wigtown
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