#wigtown

John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)

A busy second day at The Open Book! I opened from just after 10 and after a quiet start, things really picked up around lunchtime.

A lot of people were visiting the area yesterday and popped in to look for books by local authors. If I didn't have what they were looking for, I sent them down the road to The Bookshop, The Old Bank Bookshop or Well-Read Books.

I sold books on how to be right, Victorian prophets, nature and freelancing as a journalist (I wonder who bought that one...) before breaking for a late lunch at Café Rendezvous. The salad was 10/10.

After lunch, I took a trip to Well-Read books (my neighbour!) and marvelled at their crime selection, as well as Number 11 is Wigtown Festival Company's book and gift shop.

Customers: 20

Takings: £31.85

Outgoings: 5 books, apple and caramel cake

21.07.22 // The Bookshop, Wigtown, Scotland

In a Shop with Books In.....

Today is the first day of the walk that the rain is so heavy and relentless. To have any chance of being seen on the road, I wear a hi-viz vest with a head torch switched on, even during daylight. By lunchtime, I’m soaked to the skin (warm and damp being the best I hope for in such situations) and in need of some shelter. I always love a second-hand bookshop so to arrive in Wigtown, which contains the largest bookshop in Scotland, seems heaven-sent in the circumstances. A couple of hours later I leave Wigtown charmed, inspired and full of pancakes, the perfect combination to sustain me for five more hours of walking through the deluge.