26 June: Glasgow & Stirling

We said goodbye to the reliable but not so comfortable (and five hours late) "City of Halifax" ZOOM at Glasgow airport, after an OK but uncomfortable and mostly sleepless night. It was 9:00 rather than 4:45 in Glasgow, which may have been a good thing, but after the five-hour wait in the Halifax airport none of us felt exactly rarin' to go. We struggled through immigration and luggage retrieval and customs, found the EuropeCar desk (who had a car for us!) and a cash machine (which worked!), and decided to go look for Crookston Road, where Anne's great-grandparents were, according to the family bible, hitched. We drove to Glasgow (wrong side of the road, wrong side of the car, again, and no easier this time. It takes all your concentration to shift with your left hand and remember to keep the world around you visually reversed) and finally found our way to the tourist office on George Square. I went in and came back with insufficient information; Anne, Rachael and Rhi went in and came ZOOM back with more. After an hour's driving around, we found the address and discovered that there's now a hospital on the site. We didn't take a picture. We then found our way to Stirling --it took half an hour to get out out Glasgow, another half hour in a stau on the M8, and another 45 minutes driving around Stirling looking for Kate and Mike Pain's B&B ZOOM in St. Ninian's (a district of Stirling. No smart remarks, please). Oh, yes, and here are a couple of shots of what the Elf ZOOM looks like ZOOM sitting in the carpark next to 19 Barnsdale Road.
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