Our luck seems to be holding. After an interesting day doing some of the sights of Glasgow, including the Lighthouse (more of which later) and the St Mungo Museum up by the Cathedral, we headed back out to Prestwisk to pick up the car. We got upgraded for free. So, I’m trundling aboud the highways and byways of Scotland in a car that’s a whole lot bigger than Zoe and more comfortable to boot. Hurrah.

The Lighthouse was an interesting experience, mainly because I’d been round it while it was under construction when doing a feature on Glasgow architecture. The finished product was visually impressive if culturally unispiring. The exhibitions were lacking in the innovation and excitement promised by the intial idea, and I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed as I left. The single best part was a DVD exhibition of how avant garde architects in Japan are trying to find new and interesting soultions to the housing crisis over there. Some of the thought process that produced alternative ways of looking at urban development were fascinating and thought provoking, even if some of the results were rather sterile. It’s a concept that it might be worth examining in EG.

St Mungo was fascinating for reasons I’ll delve into another time.

Anyway, I’m now sat in the second hotel of the trip, converted from the old boys school up by Stirling Castle. I can hear a piper piping away in the distance while Lorna sleeps off breakfast. Grey clouds are scudding over the Ochils in the distance and I can just see, in the distance, the area where I spent most of my childhood. I’m looking forward to going back.