Monday 30th July - Glasgow - The Bus Driver, Sweet Pea and Kinlay, Jacqui and Hector Laidlaw

Monday 30th July

Cloudy with sunny spells - cool

The Bus Driver 

and 

Kinlay, Jacqui and Hector Laidlaw

We really didn't want to walk all the way back to George Square so had a look on Google Maps on my phone and, using our new found skills, found that there was a No. 100 bus run by Garelochhead Coaches that would take us back for £1.90 each. I had another look on my phone and it said next bus at 1:30. So we sat in the bus stand and waited hopefully. The bus turned up 10 minutes early and to our surprise it was labelled as electric.

We were the only people on the bus, so while we waited we asked him about his bus. He was quite happy to chat and told us that it cost £200 000 - the cost of two diesel buses and could do 100 miles on one charge. Nobody else had arrived so we departed. He gave us the full guided tour commentary on the way back: best pubs, historic buildings, what to go and see and so on - he really made our day.

Before we went to meet Kinlay and family, we had to go down to the car to pick up the small gift from NZ that we had brought them. On the way this man walking passed us asked how I was looking after my "Sweet Pea". We then carried on this weird conversation about his family life - his kids had all left home and he and his wife were living alone in their flat - down to the car park. We then shook hands and he went on his way.

Later that evening we went out for dinner at the Cote Brasserie in West Nile Street - about 10 minutes walk from our aprtment ...

... with my cousin Muir's son Kinlay, his wife Jacqui and Hector his 15 year old son. We had great wide ranging conversations about all sorts of things. It was a very good catch-up with family.

Here we are outside