Glasgow Saturday
Rather a too large a breakfast, haggis, white pudding and fried sausage, along with all the other breakfast bits and pieces.
A quick search for the daily record building, eventually found down a rather sordid street, broken windows and in a rather bad state of repair. Not a very good advertisement by Glagow for the talents of CRM.
Second visit on the CRM trail was the Light House. Here we walked up inside a tower to have an excellent view of Glasgow. Pictures to follow in a little wee while. After the tower took a look around the exhibition. Here Rosemary saw an excellent water colour of herself painted in Walberswick by CRM. Alas the picture seems not to be popular; with the result there are no copies to be purchased.
Out of the lighthouse and down to the St Enoch centre and on to the SPT for a trip to Ibrox. Here on the way to the House of an Art Lover, we had a view of the Rangers stadium. Today was a home match against Dunfermline; Rangers won 3-0.
Back to the SPT and round the circle to Cowcaddens, where we disembarked and walked to the Glasgow School of Art. The Glasgow School of Art is supposed to be CRMs best design. Built well over budget. So much of the design seemed to hve been done to intimidate the student, with dark corridors, dark staircases, guillotines and coffins. On one floor, which was suspended, he had made it look as though the floor above was crushing the pillars with its weight.
We were shown around by an early twenties girl with bleached blonde hair, bright red lipstick and high heels.
After this visit, Steve had to revive with a cup of tea and some scones at the Willow Teas rooms. After tea, a quick visit to the Horse Shoe Bar. This is a Glasgow institution, longest bar in the UK. It was very crowded with everyone watching the football results on the masses of TV screens.
Back to the hotel, and then out to the Blue Bombay on Hope Street where we ate a plate of Tandoori followed by our curries. R went for the usual Biryani and S had a chicken tikka sag. Very good.