Tag: writing
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Boat Yard, Lochwinnoch
Soft music pipes me aboard as I pass through the immaculate airlock into Boat Yard. Yes, here there is no definite article. It’s just Boat Yard. Once inside, an aura of unnatural calm and extreme cleanliness envelops me. I feel unsure if I am in a high-end OAP home, an I.C.U. or a weird cruising…
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FlavourBomb Kitchen, Glasgow Climbing Centre, Paisley Road West, Glasgow
If one wants an unusual experience to satisfy a jaded café palate, this place is jolly well it. Outside is a magnificent gothic Ibrox church. Inside is the long-established and always busy Glasgow Climbing Centre. Walking up the stairs and through the arched doorway opens up an idiosyncratic vista of activity on the multiple climbing…
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94 Coffee Shop, Waddeston, Aylesbury
On occasion, business forces Sancho and me south of the Border into the sparsely inhabited wilderness areas known to its pitiful and scattered inhabitants as the Home Counties. Cafés and coffee shops are truly hard to find in this apocalyptic zone. Those few businesses in this cursed area are often backward compared to the cutting-edge…
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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…
