In the car park at the local station a van belonging to a company that does outdoor adventures. Angus is interested to see that axe throwing is one of the options.
Including a change in Dundee it takes exactly two hours, door to door, to get to Glasgow by train . We stay in a hotel a three minute walk from the station.
The hotel has many design features but not ones that have necessarily been fully thought through. Putting the bath in a ground floor window is one of them. The bedroom walls are painted a very dark grey. This Venice Beach feature works in sunny climes. It works less well in northerly latitudes where the layered clouds block out the light.
In the lobby of a nearby ( and very trendy hotel ) a dog sculpture that elicits an ' We need one of these ' from both of us. When we're next in Glasgow we shall stay here.
We've come to try out an Indian restaurant. 'The Font' chooses wisely and is impressed . Angus orders at random and thinks the food is on the right side of 'good'.
Glasgow is a town of large , now redundant, office buildings. These are being converted into retail/residential use. As a consequence property rental prices are extremely competitive. In the restaurant we're visiting there's a huge amount of space between the tables. In Edinburgh they'd be cramming them in to cover their costs.
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I adore the dog sculpture and need to know the name of that Indian restaurant!
I'm hoping the axe throwing takes place well away from anywhere that Nobby and I might venture...
Cheers, Gail.
The dog sculpture is so realistic, before I read your comments I thought it was a live dog! The Indian restaurant looks inviting and although not a fan of Indian cuisine, the menu looks interesting.
Not sure I'd consider axe throwing as a adventure - more of a liability given my sense of direction!
There's a newly opened restaurant nearby called the Ale and Axe Taphouse sporting the motto; Eat,Drink,Throw. I'm inclined to think this might be an ill advised activity for those consuming adult beverages. Stranger still to imagine why anyone actually wants to throw an axe...unless you're a medieval Viking.
Love the lobby dog statue. Very realistic.
Hari OM
Ahh... could this be the place that took over the premises from the Russian Cafe? To be honest, so many restaurants/bars/cafes use hanging garden decor these days that it's hard to tell them apart. YAM xx
Converting office space to residential is a major trend, lots of empty office space around the world.
I can understand your reaction to that dog sculpture - reminds me of Sophie on the beach. The restaurant looks very inviting, the hotel less so - I can't quite understand the current fixation on grey decor.
Swadish
I'm thinking perhaps a Puli just back from an inexperienced groomer? But adorable nevertheless.
What a fun adventure!
The lamb dishes on the menu have me salivating. Is Scottish lamb on a par with French lamb from the Drome region, I wonder?
I too want the dog sculpture; any update on the Cabbage situation?
The dog in the hotel lobby reminded me of sculptures by DD Larue. I saw one of her "dog in a VW car window" sculptures at the Sculptureum, Matakana, Auckland, NZ. Here is a link to some of DD's work, sold in the US. Have a look at her dogs too, especially the dog in a crosswind. DD's scultures are made of papermache, but I have a NZ clay artist friend who is going to try making her dogs in glazed clay, and has bought an old car door, from a car wrecker, to ondeday go on her fence as be a feature for her new garden. http://www.ddlarue.com/vw-doors/#9
There was a bunch of leftover paint and they just threw them all together and the world's decor is now grey. Which, to me, couldn't be any worse.
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