Bus in to Glasgow in the rain to meet Alex. Scamp was meeting an old friend from work, for lunch.
Thought I’d be smart and get an earlier bus, only to find there were multiple roadworks on Cathedral Street and I ended up getting to the bus station at my usual time, 12 noon.
We did our normal walk down to a Nero, any Nero really and after a wee blether we took a walk down Buchanan Street heading to St Enoch’s Square, now that the rain had abated. We took a detour through Princes Square for Alex to take some photos of the escalators. I covered that shot, but I wasn’t interested. In the winter with the decorations and the Christmas tree, it’s a good place to photograph, but not in the middle of Spring. We walked on through St Enoch’s Square to see a new bit of graffiti on the Clyde Walkway and to photograph it. It’s on Flickr if you’re interested.
While we were on the walkway, about ten folk on a RIB screamed past on the Clyde. It wasn’t immediately obvious if it was the occupants or the RIB that was screaming, but I took some photos anyway.
All this walking and talking was making us both hungry, so Alex suggested the Willow Tea Rooms as our venue and I knew it was good, because he’d taken me there before a few years ago. We had sandwiches and I had a pot of tea while Alex had Coke. Although it’s quite posh, they do a decent pot of tea! Darjeeling, of course.
Where to go next? I’d been meaning to photograph the new(ish) City of Glasgow College and with blue skies all around now, I suggested it to Alex. He is quite an architecture fanatic, mostly older structures, but we won’t say “No” to a more modern edifice, so we spent an hour or so investigating different viewpoints and different lenses with which to capture this brilliantly white building.
I just missed the X3 from the college that would have taken me home, but too late and too lazy to run to catch it, I decided to wait for the next one. Alex’s bus came first and we agreed to meet again soon. His choice this time.
I took the next X3 past the house and got out at the shops so that I could get a pizza for dinner later in case we needed it, knowing that we could have it tomorrow if we were hungry.
PoD went to a wide angle shot of the City of Glasgow College under a blue sky.
Watched the finale of The Apprentice and agreed that the winner deserved the title.
No real plans for tomorrow, but Scamp has an appointment with Isobel. I may finish part 2 of the 3D jigsaw.