Edinburgh nights ...

A Royal Scots Dragoon Guard (Carabinier and Greys) in uniform with bearskin hat, sword and rifle, by William Birnie Rhind (1853 - 1933) , sits his horse in the gloaming of Princes Street above the buzz not of traffic but of Edinburgh Festival-goers looking for their next gig. Beyond him lies the castle, bathed in red light as a Tattoo performance draws to a close.

A bus-driver offers kindly advice to a bemused American who needs to find a bus to Fife, while some Edinburgh ladies bemoan the problem of Festival traffic and its effect on the timekeeping of the No 41 bus.

And then the 41 arrives, and we escape to the silence of the suburbs.