Jun 23rd, 2007
Last weekend, despite forecasts of persistent rain we headed south of the border to the Lake District (of Keats, Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter & Jane Austen fame apparently) for a spot of camping.
With some Ballardian moments at eerie post-modern truck stops along the way we managed to get our tent set up before the meteorologists [...]
I was lucky enough to get a work trip to Inverness for a presentation of a winning competition entry that I had worked on. While we didn’t see much of the city (and spent 7 hours on the train for a 2 hour event) the reception was held at Great Glen House (above & below), [...]
Jun 8th, 2007
As we didn’t make it to any opera in Berlin with CJ (who really likes Wagner anyway) on his last night in town we grabbed some cheap seats at the Theatre Royal and took in a performance of Madam Butterfly.
Our nose bleed seats, noisy neighbours and distracting surtitles didn’t help things but overall the performance [...]
With CJ in town our new flat was christened for visitors. In addition to the usual Glasgow attractions (an inordinate number of which seemed to be about consuming alcohol) we also took a quick day trip up to one of the more famous regions of Scotland – Glencoe.
Although we missed the Henderson stone, the scenery [...]