If my grandma were still with us, we'd keep Wigtown in business for decades! This has suddenly been bumped up on my bucket list, and I'll be bringing the bear made from my grandma's fleece coat with me.
As an avid reader, I loved to know this! Such a beautiful town with lovely small bookshops. A perfect place surrounded by nature, grab a nice cuppa, a book and enjoy. Thank you for sharing, Robert 🏴
Very interesting how books saved the town economy. Nothing beats the smell snd feel of a book. Of course, treats sold at small shops come a close second. Thanks Robert. 👍😊👍
The first time I visited Wigtown with my 4-year old grandson he said, 'It's very nice here but where are all the people?' 🙂 I hope this video encourages lots of people to go to Wigtown because that's what's needed to keep it going for another 25 years.
What an attractive cozy looking town. It must be wonderful to have a book festival. I’d be lost forever if there were that many inviting book stores around me. ❤❤
Hi Robert. I think I'd like to visit Wigtown. Montreal used to have small book shops, and a few "black hole" dusty old book sellers the ones that had walls stacked and books covered in inches of dust. But that is no more. All of our smaller fare shops were shut down and run out of town. Those black hole shops were bought up and shuttered as well. Now you have to go to a flashy corporate book shop to get a book. Yes, you can sit inside and read a while or visit their expensive coffee shop within, but its not the same. If you go to Ottawa, the capitol, you will find many of those book sellers, who have stacks upon stacks of books in a very ramshackle sort of way. Nowadays, you're better off shopping online for books, which defeats the purpose and necessity of a real book shop. I love all those little book shops there in Wigtown. Do the Wigtown book sellers have online presence? Maybe we can check them out from far away?? Yes?
We now have websites which allow us to buy from these small independent bookshops. Best of both worlds. Abe is one of the best. I use it as my first port of call.
As a confirmed bibliophile whose home is beginning to look like the Library of Congress, not to mention a ridiculous number of Kindle books and Audible audiobooks, I really loved this story! Good for Wigtown!
Many years ago, I visited Hay-on-Wye, perhaps the most famous book town in UK (as far as I know), while visiting Wales. It was a wonderful visit, expecially for an avid reader like me. Glad to know that the idea has spread and that it helped other places ^^.
It’s a nice place to live (I’m clearly biased). There are a few books about it… “Diary of a Bookseller,” “Three Things You Need To Know About Rockets” and “Devorgilla Days”, to name a few. 🙂
But that's one of the things I love about your channel you don't just talk about the blood and guts of the situation you actually give some of the lighter side of it or whimsical or just straight odd and unique
I have a disorder and I have a problem with the intake of written word , I learn thought speech ;so, over my life time I have gotten better with the written word ? I watch videos like this one to teach me ! You don’t mind right ! 👍😎🇺🇸!
I'm so glad you featured Wigtown! I have been a book person since my chubby toddler hands could grip a storybook. 📖❤ I hope I can get to your childhood town sometime soon. I may never leave... 😄
I learn something interesting everytime you put out a great video. Please keep them coming for us. My son started reading at 2 and still loves to read at 37. Take care and stay safe till next time. ❤
I didn't know the backstory of the Book Festival, so thanks for the info. Watched you and Graeme yesterday on the live stream from the Wigtown Book Festival, while sitting in my little kitchen here in Michigan.. I'm nearing 70 and would never have imagined doing such a thing. Isn't technology grand?!? I'm waiting to order Graeme's book tomorrow, Oct 1, 2024. 🤗❤️
@@scotlandunplugged Glad to hear there was a good turnout. Graeme seemed worried no one would be there! I hope the pre-orders are doing nicely, and from the comments I've read there are plenty who are also waiting for the ebook and the audiobook, so it's very exciting. I'd love it if you would sign my book, too! 🤗📖❤️
I run a small bookshop in America and would give my left arm to be able to move shop here. What a magical idea! I'm actually going to be starting by PhD in Aberdeen within the next year, so maybe I'll look into that option afterwards. Thanks for this!❤
I've got to find a way to make a bunch of money. I need to come to Scotland and Wigtown is where I'd start. Would give my right arm for a small friendly town.
And what exactly is wrong with sugar laden coffee??? Next to Books it's nigh perfection! Books of course being first. When I come to Scotland I shall visit Wigtown and, well, end up buying too many books 😂😂😂
Great story.....good to know that there are people that read actual books still exist. I see you shaved...is that a new look or just testing the waters 😂 Looks good either way.
This makes me happy! There is still a town in this world dedicated to small bookshops! Sounds like heaven to me❤️🤗🐝
They definitely need to be kept alive! 🙂
@@scotlandunplugged Yes they do!❤️🤗🐝
Am guessing Haye-on-Wye is another..
@@shelleysanders9666 I’m unfamiliar with it. But if it’s like this one, it’s a gem❤️🐝🤗
If my grandma were still with us, we'd keep Wigtown in business for decades! This has suddenly been bumped up on my bucket list, and I'll be bringing the bear made from my grandma's fleece coat with me.
What a perfect little town with book shops. I love to read, and I would definitely love this place. 🙂❤️
What a perfect little town if you're looking for a book no longer published. I love small towns and all the unique they have.
As an avid reader, I loved to know this! Such a beautiful town with lovely small bookshops. A perfect place surrounded by nature, grab a nice cuppa, a book and enjoy. Thank you for sharing, Robert 🏴
It’s not bad (but I’m a bit biased) 🙂
Wigtown looks like a beautiful little town with so much to see. Well done to all who made it possible.
Very interesting how books saved the town economy. Nothing beats the smell snd feel of a book. Of course, treats sold at small shops come a close second. Thanks Robert. 👍😊👍
The first time I visited Wigtown with my 4-year old grandson he said, 'It's very nice here but where are all the people?' 🙂 I hope this video encourages lots of people to go to Wigtown because that's what's needed to keep it going for another 25 years.
I'm always amazed how busy it is without actually looking busy. Will be there for the festival with my brother's book! :-)
Thank you for sharing this Robert❤ What a amazing wee place for book lover's, from far and wide👍🏆
Great video Robbie, you must be very proud of the town you grew up in
Thanks Cameron! It’s amazing to see the transformation.
How wonderful. Never can have too many bookstores. Love it. Thank you very much for this story of success.
❤❤❤I love that books saved this place !!! Books are fantabulous!!!!!
What an attractive cozy looking town. It must be wonderful to have a book festival. I’d be lost forever if there were that many inviting book stores around me. ❤❤
I managed 6 hours before having to go home (and in that time, I bumped into 3 siblings, 3 nephews, 2 cousins and my mum) 😂
Hi Robert. I think I'd like to visit Wigtown. Montreal used to have small book shops, and a few "black hole" dusty old book sellers the ones that had walls stacked and books covered in inches of dust. But that is no more. All of our smaller fare shops were shut down and run out of town. Those black hole shops were bought up and shuttered as well. Now you have to go to a flashy corporate book shop to get a book. Yes, you can sit inside and read a while or visit their expensive coffee shop within, but its not the same. If you go to Ottawa, the capitol, you will find many of those book sellers, who have stacks upon stacks of books in a very ramshackle sort of way. Nowadays, you're better off shopping online for books, which defeats the purpose and necessity of a real book shop. I love all those little book shops there in Wigtown. Do the Wigtown book sellers have online presence? Maybe we can check them out from far away?? Yes?
We now have websites which allow us to buy from these small independent bookshops. Best of both worlds. Abe is one of the best. I use it as my first port of call.
Miss the old bookshops like that
I believe a few are on Abe Books. 🙂
I really love hearing stories of restoration.
How lovely!
Any place with bookstores is a place worth visiting.
I went to Wigtown in 2015. My mother’s family “McCandlish” is from there. My ancestors traveled to America in the 1750s. Wonderful place!
As a confirmed bibliophile whose home is beginning to look like the Library of Congress, not to mention a ridiculous number of Kindle books and Audible audiobooks, I really loved this story! Good for Wigtown!
My house isn’t quite there, but my audible and kindle accounts are stuffed 🙂
What a lovely town! I love the feel of a real book. I'll need to put it on my list of places to go next time I'm in Scotland. ❤
There’s definitely something about the real thing!
Love books. Great way to keep a town alive.
I love to read! Sounds like Wigtown is my cup of tea...or maybe coffee!
Love getting a sandwich from the coop and sitting on the green to eat it, lovely little town ❤
I can remember sitting there when I was about 5. Can still hear the bowls!
I have wanted to go here for years.
Many years ago, I visited Hay-on-Wye, perhaps the most famous book town in UK (as far as I know), while visiting Wales. It was a wonderful visit, expecially for an avid reader like me. Glad to know that the idea has spread and that it helped other places ^^.
Ah yes. The idea came from Hay-on-Wye.
Great video!! Always enjoy your wonderful stories… 👏🏻🩵
Thank you!
It's worth more than one journey, I can say. We loved our stay in summer!
The town seems so quaint, proper and calming!
I love it, but I’m massively biased! 😂
Buckets of coffee is a VERY good thing! 😉 Those book stores you keep walking through make me drool. They'd never get me out!❤
That’s actually one shop! The Book Shop - Scotland’s biggest secondhand book shop.
Robbie, I’m glad to hear that your little town made it through the 90s. Maybe next week we can go back to horror .
Oh, it looks and sounds like where I need to live. I read quite a bit, and I feel like I could be happy, there. ❤️❤️❤️
It’s a nice place to live (I’m clearly biased). There are a few books about it… “Diary of a Bookseller,” “Three Things You Need To Know About Rockets” and “Devorgilla Days”, to name a few. 🙂
@@scotlandunplugged Thank you! I'll give them a read.
But that's one of the things I love about your channel you don't just talk about the blood and guts of the situation you actually give some of the lighter side of it or whimsical or just straight odd and unique
wow!!! Good for Wigtown! Thanks for sharing!
I have a disorder and I have a problem with the intake of written word , I learn thought speech ;so, over my life time I have gotten better with the written word ? I watch videos like this one to teach me ! You don’t mind right ! 👍😎🇺🇸!
This would be my ideal vacation spot. The only trouble would be the freight charges getting all the books I bought home to Canada!
Brilliant idea and brilliant grab at an opportunity. So good to see food people like the Parker brothers succeed.
The Worlds coolest town!!! I’m moving there then ❤
One of my favourite places to visit
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I NEED to come to Wigtown!!!! Thank you!!!!
I'm so glad you featured Wigtown! I have been a book person since my chubby toddler hands could grip a storybook. 📖❤ I hope I can get to your childhood town sometime soon. I may never leave... 😄
The older I get, the more I want to move back. Edinburgh will do though 🙂
I learn something interesting everytime you put out a great video. Please keep them coming for us. My son started reading at 2 and still loves to read at 37.
Take care and stay safe till next time. ❤
I want to travel to Wigtown now.
Thank you I'm really enjoying your videos.
💛 It!
I didn't know the backstory of the Book Festival, so thanks for the info. Watched you and Graeme
yesterday on the live stream from the Wigtown Book Festival, while sitting in my little kitchen here in Michigan.. I'm nearing 70 and would never have imagined doing such a thing. Isn't technology grand?!? I'm waiting to order Graeme's book tomorrow, Oct 1, 2024. 🤗❤️
Brilliant! Mad to think it was going out across the globe and there were 400 people in the tent in front of us! 🙂 Thank you.
@@scotlandunplugged Glad to hear there was a good turnout. Graeme seemed worried no one would be there! I hope the pre-orders are doing nicely, and from the comments I've read there are plenty who are also waiting for the ebook and the audiobook, so it's very exciting. I'd love it if you would sign my book, too! 🤗📖❤️
That cafe rendevous looks 10/10
It ain’t half bad! 😎
I run a small bookshop in America and would give my left arm to be able to move shop here. What a magical idea! I'm actually going to be starting by PhD in Aberdeen within the next year, so maybe I'll look into that option afterwards. Thanks for this!❤
Have you read Diary of a Bookseller or Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets? They’re both books about living and working in Wigtown. 🙂
@@scotlandunplugged I hadn't but I will now - thank you for the suggestion!
I've got to find a way to make a bunch of money. I need to come to Scotland and Wigtown is where I'd start. Would give my right arm for a small friendly town.
I think this is my spiritual place
This sounds amazing, I want to visit! Except shipping my purchases back to Montana would be cost-prohibitive. Still want to visit it though.
Yeah, that could get pricey 😂
You are quite Dashing without the beard 🥰❤ Love the new look !!! What does your wife think?
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And what exactly is wrong with sugar laden coffee??? Next to Books it's nigh perfection! Books of course being first. When I come to Scotland I shall visit Wigtown and, well, end up buying too many books 😂😂😂
Easy done! I remember getting addicted to Starbucks peppermint lattes until I realised one day that I was holding a pint of coffee. 😂
What a great story for this town! Now, back to death and destruction...
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Great story.....good to know that there are people that read actual books still exist.
I see you shaved...is that a new look or just testing the waters 😂
Looks good either way.
Haha. I got sick of the beard, then remembered to horror of what lurks beneath 😂
@@scotlandunplugged
Nahhhhh
I'm sure your wife would agree that you look great either way.
You mean it wasn't because of Graeme Parker??? 🐮❤🐮
So,,,, you're from 'the Shire'????
Does that mean you're an exceptionally tall hobbit??
It’s possible 😂
Would love to live there, my idea of heaven
Rise like a PhoeniX
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Wigtown birl around
Independence whispers...
"I'll soon be found.... !!! X
Death and destruction.😂😂😂
Wasn't that your Mom's coffee shop!?!
It was!
Whoever read the "... of a booksellers" books and does not want to go there, is beyond me.
The interior bookshop shots are all Shaun Bythell''s shop (which used to be my great grandad's draper shop) :-)
@@scotlandunplugged Oh wow... 📚