From the back seat of the car I noticed the moon rising in monochrome over Waverley Bridge.

“Slow down!” I shouted at TPR, “This is amazing. I need to photograph it!”

When he didn’t reply to me I leant over to the driver’s seat and discovered that TPR was no longer at the wheel. Instead he was fast asleep at the other side of the back seat, and somehow the car was navigating its way around Edinburgh all by itself.

I shouted louder and TPR woke up just in time to steer the car away from a crowd of drunken students near to the queue of airport buses, and a horse heading north from the roundabout.

I didn’t get my photograph then, but a later opportunity arose when we crossed the River Forth. I daringly left the car through the open back window and walked along the tracks of the rail bridge. From high above I could observe the strange phenomena of frozen waves, and AV sitting in a playground below. At the end of my little outing I met a nice young man at South Queensferry railway station who showed me where to catch a train back to Edinburgh.