Glasgow ho!

To Glasgow, a long journey, made slightly more difficult due to a numpty unregulated vape seller near Glasgow Central Central Station, whose vapes started a massive fire, and have closed the station for days. This meant we travelled to Edinburgh Haymarket, and then had to catch a train there. The train we caught, however, stopped at Partick station, and so was close to Sam's flat, and the airbnb  where we are staying. We were supposed to have bought an extension ticket, from Glasgow to Partick, but the ticket collector let us off. We had caught the 10:25 train at Seaford, and arrived at Partick at 7:30, which is a lot of trains. 

However some lovely views en route, and we passed along the edge of the Lake District heading north, and loved the glimpses of the wild and wet landscape. Lovely too to get a glimpse of high Scottish hills and mountains. 

To Sam and Amy's flat. Sam has been a bit ill with a stomach bug, and had not been eating, and looked a bit pale. Plan A was that he was going to cook, but Sam didn't want to infect people. So Amy warmed up some pizza for us, and Lorraine and I had a beer each. Very good to see him, and for Lorraine especially to give him a motherly squeeze or two.

After a couple of hours we trundled off to find our place on Laurel Street. Up the usual tenement stairs, a bicycle clamped to the bannisters, right to the top carrying a case and rucksack, then L said it was on the second floor, which promoted me to have a small sense of humour failure. Our apartment, when we got through the two doors was absolutely lovely, organic light stone colours, tiled and wooden floors, and an eye for design and colour. We  watched a little tv, drank water and a cup of tea, and tiredly made off to bed.