Purple Hotel Glasgow Airport Renfrew

Travelled from Fife over to West of Scotland and Hamilton, just south of Glasgow.
Watched the game which Hamilton won 2-1 and really enjoyed the atmosphere. On the radio on the way home though learned that there had been fighting in the players tunnel after the game and the Police had been involved. Boys will be boys!!
Sat with the Hearts fans ... not happy! Team were poor and they can see their club is in decline!

... characters here, the family we were with almost met the definition above (very heated discussion) and fight outside amongst young girls from another party in the function room! Oh what night!

Square suasage for breakfast (A bit like a meat loaf sliced thin and grilled)

The next day we had a tour around the city. Glasgow Uni. Museum and a walk around. Very ...

The next destination on our trip was to Scotland. Now, this is a place I have had on my list to see for a long time. The chance to finally experience it and see it in its full glory was awesome! We landed pretty much on top of water and were able to see the water the entire train ride into Glasgow.

When we arrived at the train station in Glasgow, the group got separated and we decided to wait for them and get a coffee ...

Is this just me or happening to other people?Hired a Fiat Punto 1.2 diesel from Ciampino airport,Rome in October.Had it filled up by an attendant at a garage 3 km from airport before returning.Just received a bill for 23 euros from Avis for fuel.Gauge showed full on leaving garage.
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Today, I was planning to go to the youth hostel at the castle, but the Land Rover had other plans!!!

Oh dear, game over! I popped out to start the Land Rover this morning at around 9am and the engine was smoking like a trooper and sounding a lot worse than it normally does. I called the AA at around 10:00 and they turned up at at around 10:45 from a local garage. He told me that the engine is fairly terminal (piston problem ...

... a train departing in 5 minutes....RUN!!!! Back on the train, people were ******. Tired, hungry, delayed passengers are no laughing matter, especially when there were more than the train could hold. Long story short, the flooding had stopped and we made it into Edinburgh at 7:30, and I then had to board another train to Stirling, which, to no surprise, was also delayed! Alas, I made to Stirling station at around 9:30, and took yet ...

... once more. I did LOTS of shopping along Sauchiehall and Buchanan streets - not because I wanted to, but because I wanted to get out of the cold! I also strolled through Buchanan Galleries, a modern mall, in search of some decent fast food for dinner. I had no luck, so I popped into Sainsbury's for a quick snack to tide me over until I decided what to do. A three-bean chili stuffed pastry - surprisingly good! I headed over to ...

... the last thing we needed. The past few weeks have been a whirl of trying to catch up with friends and family and to say good-bye. Even though we are really excited about the trip it is really hard saying good-bye to people. We know we will see some people in Oz in the future and others we will see here in Glasgow in the future but it will be a while. Once the Oz removalists have been tomorrow we will be in a much better position and have a better idea just how much kit we have (i.e. too much!)

... Iran, and bring their country, finally, into the family of prosperous nations. My last night in Tehran was exciting. I was with our distributor in a very plush Chinese restaurant, when suddenly the lights flickered, went out, flickered again and then from above our heads, a fizzing and crackling sound preceded a flow of burning plastic from the light fittings. Within minutes the restaurant staff were in headless chicken mode, while Dave and I continued to munch our way through dinner ...

... was plenty of snow which made the various hikes we did a bit cold, but also added the fun of snowball fights. Saw plenty of blue skies plus had the occasional blizzard-like conditions. Rory driving in blizzard I was surprised by how big some of the mountain ranges are in Scotland...they made for good pictures. tour group at Old Man of Storr rock We got to see "airy eeland coos" too (hairy highland ...