We had a lovely lunch in House for an Art Lover (designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh but built long after his death) on Sunday, then spent an hour or two… Read more Bellahouston Park and House for an Art Lover →
It’s been a funny old year. After working in the same place for two decades, I’ve now left two jobs within a few months of each other, experiencing both the… Read more 2012: the best bits →
So it’s Hogmanay, I’m clearing out from my iPad all the photos I’ve used, or rejected, for blogging in 2012 and I’ve found a couple of posts that I meant… Read more The ones that nearly got away…. →
We’ve just spent two nights at the Stirling Highland Hotel. This was built in the 1850s as the city’s High School and didn’t become a hotel until the 1990s so,… Read more Stirling: where we stayed and where we ate →
While staying in Stirling, we took a walk out to the Wallace Monument following the route from inStirling.com. NB If anyone else decides to do this, note that it’s mainly… Read more Visiting Braveheart: the Wallace Monument →
The last time we visited Stirling Castle (Historic Scotland) was a sunny, autumn day in 2011 and the pictures in the blogpost I wrote then reflected that. After arriving in… Read more Stirling Castle at dusk →
I’m a committed Glaswegian but, whisper it, at Christmas Edinburgh does it better. Both cities have funfairs and Christmas markets but Edinburgh’s are definitely more spectacular. We explored them when… Read more Edinburgh’s all dressed up for Christmas →
On a day out in March, we stopped off in Crieff Hydro for tea and thought it would be a lovely place to stay. After a gruelling few months at… Read more Unwinding in Crieff →
We’ve lived in our present house for nearly twenty years, and every time we leave it we pass this at the end of the road, yet we’ve never been in:… Read more Stained glass and puppets →
Maryhill is an area of Glasgow close to where we live which, although not particularly touristy, has some interesting developments going on. It dates from the coming of the canals… Read more Maryhill Burgh Halls →
A couple of months ago, I wrote about our visit to the Glasgow Necropolis. It’s the most famous, but not the only, Glasgow cemetery with a heritage trail and we… Read more Sandymount Cemetery Heritage Trail →
A stay at Churchill College.
The Glasgow Gallivanter 