We left Harry and Meg at Inverness Station (sadly, but we will see them in Oz hopefully by the end of the year). They were off home and we to Glasgow where we had booked into a small hotel on the Kelvin River close to the University and Kelvin Grove Park. This park in the West End adjoins the wonderful Victorian stone terraces of three and four storey homes with strips of park and generous roads between. The public infrastructure ie park railings paths etc have much improved since our last visit 5 years ago, and many of the houses are now used for offices - museums, parks , university campus and city all adjoin. The underground is like the smallest London Central Line service but with very small four carriage stations.The city has little high rise, good pedestrian streets, many buses run by many different companies making it tricky for tourists however we had a hour round trip on the way to the Scotland Street School designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (CRM). This is a great school built in the middle of a very dense terrace area near the river and rail. There were 4 large schools here that catered for over 4000 pupils now there are no operational schools and no housing; all residents were rehoused in new towns after WW2 and the area developed industrially. Also visited the Light House, a Mackintosh building designed for the press and still standing in thecentre of the city; a new building has been attached and is now used as an architectural museum particularly of CRM work, with a viewing tower.

Plenty of good cheap restaurants and pubs in our area and we could have stayed longer but left early by train as we had to get back to London because we were going to stay with Wendy and Ian at Tunbridge Wells.They were both playing in a concert at Tonbridge School; music was all Russian and they are a very professional group.