Today I got from Sylvia and Peter’s place in North Berwick to Glasgow. Peter eventually wanted to bring me back to Edinburgh again, which is halfway to Glasgow and I would easily be able to find a ride from there.
Before my departure in the afternoon, Sylvia overloaded me with presents and with one for my next host. She gave me a candy rock-stick, Scottish Whisky Fudge and even offered me more souvenirs, but I just can’t take all with me in my backpack – as I have a lot of other countries to visit.
On the road my host in Glasgow, Alan, called me on my phone to tell me that he was in Edinburgh. So Peter drove up to the Edinburgh train station where I met Alan, his wife Laraine and their daughter.
They had been shopping in Edinburgh and were about to take the train back to Glasgow. Alan was so kind that he even buy a train ticket for me to Glasgow too, ha.
In the train we talked about my project and they were amazed.
Alan once found my website somehow as he works as the Scottish sales manager at Redhouse Lane, a graphic and web design company in England.
He typed in his personal info and never expected me to call him this week.
When we arrived in Glasgow we walked from the train station along George’s Square and visited the Counting House pub for a drink. This pub used to be a bank and has a big arched window on top and historical statues decorate the high walls. Really impressive.
Alan said: “If you have seen this, you have seen Glasgow,” which was kind of true.
After a cup of coffee we all walked to the car and drove up to their house, just in a quarter outside of Glasgow, along the motorway.
At home Alan connected his laptop onto the internet for me and Laraine started to prepare a nice lasagna dinner. Alan was watching television as he is fascinated by the current Grand Prix car races in England.
Around nine o’clock at night Alan’s brother Jack, took us out to Glasgow centre so I could see a bit of Glasgow by night. We first had a drink in The Horseshoe, a popular pub as the bar is the longest bar in England. And the Britpop band Travis used to rehearse upstairs this pub. The member of this popular band enjoyed this so much that they donated their Gold Sale Award of their album ‘The Man Who’ to the pub.
The next pub we went was the Slug And Lettuce Bar, a fully crowded bar dancing where the deejay played 70’s and 90’s hit songs.
As we could barely hear each other we left after one drink and found a more quiet pub, called Waxy O’Connor’s. This place is like four or five floors high, but all built between the ground floor and the first floor so you can look down all the way. Carefully crafted wood made it look that trees grow up all the way to the top.
After closing time, midnight in Glasgow, we got back to the car again while the rain was coming down. “This is typical Glasgow weather,” Alan said.
Good night Glasgow!
