Tag: vans
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Simply Scottish, Jedburgh
Jedburgh Abbey is a stunning ruin. A monument to an advanced, organised, well-developed and intelligent system which functioned to the benefit of most of local society. Until it was laid waste to by revengeful single-issue small-minded English vandals on a regular basis in the 14th Century. I cannot conceive of this sort of thing ever happening…
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Coast, Langbank, Port Glasgow
Trundling to Port Glasgow in the wagon I noted the jaunty nautical portholes of Coast from the A8. I later returned to Langbank, the Riviera of Port Glasgow, where I enjoyed a choice of free parking. I savoured the view across the Clyde to Dumbarton Rock, rather than actually having to be in Dumbarton. Coast…
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Loch Fyne Oyster Bar Tree Shop Garden Centre café
It should be a truth universally acknowledged that one must avoid drinking coffee in a garden centre café. Hold on, I said that last week. But if a humble scribe must steal they should steal from the best and then get one’s karmic money’s worth by repeating it. Even into inanity. It also seems that…
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Brambles, Inverary.
Inverary, originally a model town constructed by a typically ambitious Campbell Duke of Argyll always seems inexplicably busy. I cannot quite fathom the attraction. It could be the spectacular view, or the absurdly castle-y castle. The explanation I favour is that the journey time for a coach-load of pensioners from Glasgow to Inverary exactly matches…
