Tag: coffee-scotland

  • The Summit café, Tiso, Couper Street, Glasgow

    The Summit café, Tiso, Couper Street, Glasgow

    It is of paramount importance to the six or seven readers of this blog and myself to be able to nip off the M8 and get decent coffee whilst not handing over any gelt for parking or being delayed by traffic. That’s why Tiso is so handy. Exit J15 or 16. A friend pointed out…

  • Broch Café, A84, Strathyre

    Broch Café, A84, Strathyre

    What is so irresistible about the rural, wild enormity of Scotland? Is it the scale, variety and sheer freedom of the landscape? Or is it the pleasant independence, idiosyncrasy and hospitality of the people? Whilst dallying on the A84, travelling west to east and mentally computing coffee options in Crieff or Callander I felt I…

  • 2 Children, Raeburn Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Planet Earth

    2 Children, Raeburn Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Planet Earth

    Stockbridge would normally be nightmare parking territory for the picky operator of an LWB van but I slid easily into a resident’s bay opposite 2 Children, one of the many, many upmarket-looking coffee outlets in the area and parked untouchably because it was Sunday. One hears a lot about the supposed superiority of certain areas…