Friday 28th June: drive to Glasgow

Google redirected us through rural Shropshire to avoid a motorway accident, so we drove for an hour through green lanes passing fields of crimson poppies iridescent in the morning sunlight. M6 was slow, as always.

At Glasgow piping centre hotel we were met with a complementary glass of Glenfiddich, and have a poky room with a view of a building site.

National Piping Centre and Pipers Tryst Hotel

We got some exercise by walking down to the Clyde and along its banks to the west, then back up through downtown. It’s choked with traffic and a bit of a dump. The grid street layout means every few paces you have stop at a pedestrian crossing.

Bank of the Clyde, downtown Glasgow

Very good fish dinner at Gamba restaurant including raw fish, smoked fish and cooked shellfish.