Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018 – Day 3

He came. He saw. He got the tram back home.

Unfortunately, the weather, having been fantastic for ages, decided that enough was enough and brought Edinburgh’s various Festivals a bit of damp, miserable – and some would say ‘typical’ – Edinburgh grey-ness.

With few, if any, of the listed authors – quite rightly – due to be ushered out to the, famed, grey carpet, it was decided by our intrepid photographer that, having already captured the National Youth Orchestra of Canada ‘doing their thing’, it was best to cut his losses and try again another day. Maybe tomorrow. Shame really, as one of the regular photographers attending the EIBF had managed to ‘persuade’ the construction crew to arrange the photography area much more… sympathetically. Stand up and take a bow Gary Doak.

All the planned events and talks will still go on as they, and the queueing areas, are all under cover. They thought of everything. Almost….