Glasgow

We drove into Glasgow from the West yesterday doing a sort of circle from Stirling past many beautiful Loch's... as we came in we saw these beautiful old Apartment buildings that are called Tenements!!   I always thought a Tenement was an almost condemned building with no water and rats everywhere but these were in excellent order and beautifully cared for... there was the odd gap where a German bomb had hit more than 60 years ago because we are right on the Clyde River where all the big ships were built as well as QE11 in more recent times... some of the gaps have been turned into parks and some have new buildings similar to the old ones.

Glasgow is a big vibrant city and I haven't seen a single Busker making that awful noise!! Our hotel is in the Theatre district and very modern, tiny tiny room but it has everything in it. This is our home for four nights until we take off in our little hire car for non bus areas LOL

Today is the day David has been excited about for months... this morning they were picked up by a 1949 CX37 Albion Double Decker Bus... this is the first time it has been allowed out of the Glasgow Museum since it was put in, it is in pristine condition and painted in it's original colours of orange and cream and brown and green... I wouldn't call it an attractive colour scheme but all the blokes were oooohhhhing and arrrrring and snapping so much I don't think they noticed the colour!! They all went off to the now defunct Albion Factory where our old Albion Double Decker bus chassis was built and shipped to Australia for it's distinctly Australian body.

David was almost speechless with excitement this morning! Then to top it off one of the Scottish blokes has organized for them to have a tour of the Glasgow Underground tonight... David even drove an underground train... What bliss!! I've decided to do my own thing... what that thing is I don't quite know yet but I will decide after I finish on the Internet.