Glasgow.

So...last week we got away for a couple of nights to Glasgow where I first met Will in 2008.

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Have Seniors Railcard, will travel!

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Glasgow has some amazing buildings...this is the Tollbooth Steeple at Trongate

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St Andrew's in the Square

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Gateway to Glasgow Green

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Doulton Fountain - The Terracotta Fountain

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The Former Templeton Carpet Factory

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The River Clyde

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The Gallery of Modern Art

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Sunset through Central Station

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Those canny Scots!

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The Duke of Wellington always has his hat on!

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Donald Dewer and friend

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The Kelvin River

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Oran Mor

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Glasgow Botanical Gardens...

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We spotted a Bottlebrush!

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Wollemi Pine

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Orchid heaven!

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Amazing colour!

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Hogwarts?

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No, the University of Glasgow

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The Huntarian Museum...

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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

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She was not amused!

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The old Steiner School where Will worked is now a refurbished apartment block.

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The New Steiner Apartments

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Mini Underground trains.

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We spent an hour watching this! It was emotional!

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We had a great meal at the Butterfly and Pig.

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Glasgow Sunset

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Glasgow by night...

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In the footsteps of the Romans.

So...the weather has been glorious here recently, cloudless blue skies for days, and we were lucky to get out and wander the lanes of Lanercost and follow a bit of the Hadrian's Wall path for a couple of hours...

Robin

Roe Deer

Hare

Rooks

Another Hare

Pussy Willow

Primrose

Blackthorn

Hadrian’s Wall Path

The tallest part of the wall that still remains...Hare Hill

It's sprung!

Scenes from an hour's walk in the sun...

Hawthorn

Celandine

Liverpool.

So...this last week we had a few days seeing the sights of Liverpool.

Penrith Station

We stayed at The Adelphi Hotel, sadly not what it once was.

Posing at Lewis's

Around Albert Dock...

Jellybean Fab Four.

We were lucky this was on while we were there, more later.

Billy Fury...

Ferry across the Mersey

Museum of Liverpool

The Liver Building

The Fab Four

Paul

George

Ringo

John

Is that a fifth Beatle?

No, six!

Elaborate exhaust tower for the Mersey Tunnel

Cilla!

The Town Hall

To the Metro

We had a fab meal here

Mersey by night

Borealis by Dan Acher...

I was taking this when I heard I was going to be a Grandpa again!

The Pump Station

In The Adelphi...

The Grand Lounge...

St Luke's, Liverpool. Bombed out during the war

Down to the gardens by the Anglican Cathedral

WE couldn't go in due to Graduation Ceremonies. Rats!

The Metropolitan Cathedral...

Abraham

St Nicholas?

St George's Hall

In The Walker Art Gallery...

I don't think he approves of these 'Modern' painting!

A Belgian Tapestry from the 1500's

I liked her face.

Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger

Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hillard

The Punishment of Lust by Giovanni Segantini

Liverpool Library! Wow!...

Duke Street Food Market

Crosby Beach...

Buttermere.

So...yesterday we had a walk around Buttermere and a detour to Scales Force, the highest waterfall in the Lake District.

Haystacks

Crummock Water

Scales Force...

St James's Church, Buttermere