For an wonderful cultural escape from the Edinburgh Festival and the Fringe follow the Edinburgh Literary Bus Tour
The Edinburgh Literary Bus Tour - Dates & Times
Important information for 2008
Due to the ongoing preparatory work for Edinburgh's new Tram System we have taken the unavoidable decision to postpone this year's formal Literary Bus Tour. Due to the inevitable delays caused we would not be offer the same high level of service we have done in the past two years.
We have a range of packages available for 2008 which you can read about here
"It's impossible to live in Edinburgh without sensing its literary heritage everywhere. It seems eminently sensible to me to recognise this, along with the contemporary literary life here, with a permanent title that can inspire and inform other places around the world."
J. K. ROWLING
Reekie is not a tour guide, he explains, at the beginning. He knows nothing about buying tickets for the Castle but what he does know is "My Edinburgh of poets and philosophers... in the Athens of the North."
- Vivien Devlin (EdinburghGuide.com)
You are taken on a whirlwind literary journey from the enlightening times of David Hume and Robert Louis Stevenson to 21st century bestsellers, Alexander McCall Smith and JK Rowling.
- Rosemary Goring (The Herald)
