We took the train in to Glasgow today after Scamp had run us to the station. Just a wander around the centre of Glasgow with maybe the chance of a lunch thrown in. Seemed like a good way to use a sunny day. Sunny, but not all that warm, well it is nearly the end of September. Glasgow was busy, probably partly because this is the end of September weekend which is a local holiday. We walked down Buchanan Street and heard a bloke playing a blues on nice sounding guitar. I gave him a few quid for his efforts. We walked back up and found the restaurant Val had praised a few weeks ago. It’s called Mozza and is part of a chain. We’d been impressed with their pizzas when we’d been staying in Annette’s caravan in St Andrews last year. Today’s pizza wasn’t a patch on the St Andrews one. I had Italian Sausage and allegedly Italian Broccoli, but what was on my plate was cabbage, possibly Italian cabbage, but nothing like broccoli. It was smothered in half a ton of cheese. Scamp was smarter, she’d asked for just a little cheese and her’s looked a lot less of a mess. It wasn’t expensive, but it wasn’t all that great either. It wasn’t as bad as Doppio Malto’s effort, but way below Paesano in my quality rating.
We went for coffee in Nero after the disappointing pizza and then headed for the train. Just missed the train back by seconds and with 25 minutes to wait for the next one, we went for a walk round George Square and down to Cass Art to see if they had a sale on … they didn’t so we ambled back to the station and on the way I got a few shots of the big glass building that is 110 Queen Street. I liked the round table set for a meeting. That became PoD.
Back home and had just finished a coffee when the phone rang and it was the garage to say the Blue car was ready. I drove the White Duke over to Stirling, noting the two mile queue on the other carriageway, the carriageway I would have been using to drive home. Picked up our car and found that an upgrade to the Engine Control Unit had solved the problem and an upgrade to the sat nav and radio had also been done and checked. I haven’t tested their checks yet, I was too busy plotting a route home that would mean the wheels were turning all the time, but I think we may go for a run soon.
That was about it for the day. Nice to have the Micra back, but I admit I almost stalled it a couple of times forgetting it wasn’t an automatic!
No plans for tomorrow yet. Weather looks reasonable for the time of year.