Tag: writing
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Crema. Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow
After last week’s episode, in which Sancho, my faithful co-driver, has claimed that their character was somewhat maligned, questions have been raised in the House (our house) and on the Today Programme at breakfast (or it might have been just been today at breakfast). So in the great British tradition of a right to reply…
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Melo, Bearsden, Glasgow
Achilles may have been the greatest and swiftest of the Greeks but there was the eventually defining matter of his heel. I feel the same about the coffee in Melo. Melo is conveniently located on A81 Milngavie Road. Opposite is a rank of free parking in MacFarlane Rd and nearby is the tasty, filling and…
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The Wildcat – Fort William.
If your van is travelling north along the A82 parallel to the monumental, causal beauty of Loch Linnhe and the walls of Ardnamurchan you must reach Fort William. Don’t stop. My previous involuntary reaction was sensibly based on Fort William’s appearance: A town with its bare arse to the view. Then there was the nocturnal…
