Scottish Snapshots: North Berwick
Scottish Snapshots is a series of short posts about places I visited in 2013 but didn’t write about at the time We visited North Berwick, a seaside town on the… Read more Scottish Snapshots: North Berwick →
Scottish Snapshots: Moffat
Scottish Snapshots is a series of short posts about places I visited in 2013 but didn’t write about at the time Moffat is a lovely little town in Dumfries and Galloway.… Read more Scottish Snapshots: Moffat →
A Glasgow canal walk
The Forth and Clyde Canal, which runs sea-to-sea between the two rivers, has passed through Glasgow since the eighteenth century, though it ceased to be navigable in 1963. However, the multi-million Millennium… Read more A Glasgow canal walk →
To the Lighthouse
Nothing to do with Virginia Woolf or the sea – Glasgow’s Lighthouse is a Charles Rennie Mackintosh building that used to be part of the Glasgow Herald‘s printing offices until they… Read more To the Lighthouse →
Celtic Connections 2014
Not strictly travel, but we had such a great time at Celtic Connections this year that I felt I had to document it. We were there for the opening night… Read more Celtic Connections 2014 →
Summerlee
We had a friend visiting last weekend and Glasgow did its absolute worst with the weather. Where could we go that was accessible by car and under cover so that… Read more Summerlee →
The People’s Palace
The People’s Palace is Glasgow’s social history museum. My latest visit was with Glasgow Women’s Library’s Seeing Things project – although I’ve been many times before, it was interesting to… Read more The People’s Palace →
Glenlee: Glasgow’s Tall Ship
Glasgow’s Tall Ship, Glenlee, is berthed outside the Riverside Museum. Both are free, and make a great day out – especially when it’s bright and sunny as it was last… Read more Glenlee: Glasgow’s Tall Ship →
Glasgow at dusk
When we have nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon, and when it’s not raining which restricts things quite a lot, we enjoy taking a walk around our beautiful… Read more Glasgow at dusk →
2013: the best bits
Annual Review 2013 2013 was my first year of retirement so you would think that I would have had more time for blogging. Not so! I’m shocked to find that… Read more 2013: the best bits →
Chengdu pandas
Scotland may have lost its chance of a baby panda for the meantime, but John saw lots of them on a recent business trip to China. His hosts took him… Read more Chengdu pandas →
Dublin Diary: Day 4
Our plane didn’t leave till late afternoon, so we had a few hours to wander along Dublin’s Grand Canal before we left. Near the Liffey, it’s quite commercial but further… Read more Dublin Diary: Day 4 →
The Glasgow Gallivanter 