what I did with the middle bit...

Friday evening train journey back into London. arriving at Kings Cross at rush hour made me want to turn around and go back to Cambridge! there's a nice feel here, it's a country town which feels like it could easily be home. London is big and noisy.
After a quiet evening on the sofa, watching an interesting mash of tv, the first half of saturday was spent having a quiet day reading and watching the tv again. i haven't really had any down time in the past 2 weeks, so it was nice to just chill out for a while.
Just after lunch Beanii and I went out to do a self guided Monopoly walking tour. We managed to find 14 locations in 5 hours, including Fenchurch Street Station, which a fairly underwhelming overground station... 
At 11pm it was finally time to hit the road - it was really strange waiting all day to then leave the house. We arrived at the bus station, found our gate, and were invited to hop on the bus and have a wee seat so they could explain some things to us - yes, we really were headed to Scotland! about 10 mins into the trip i decided to head to bed. I had a bottom bunk, so to get in i dropped to hands and knees and rolled in. it was more comfortable than I was expecting, and I slept all the way to Glasgow.
Glasgow on a sunday morning is more than quiet - i took a number of photos standing in the middle of fairly major intersections, as the view up the streets was often really lovely.
After wandering the streets for a few hours, and randomly coming across a few of the sites where scenes of Lip Service were filmed, we headed to the Q&A session of the Lip Service fan event (my main reason to head to Glasgow). It was really interesting, and funny, and all of the cast were lovely and generous with their answers. I was pleasently surprised at the quality of questions the audience asked. I took about 160 photos but I know that many of them are pretty similar, so eventually i'll go through and pick out a few good ones.
The break between the Q&A and the party/signing session was spent on one of those open topped tour busses. An hour and a half circuit took in all of the important sites of Glasgow, and saved my feet from more walking. One of the things I found most interesting about the city is that so many of their buildings are red sandstone.
Back to the Lip Service event part 2 - after queueing for some time to look at some of the costumes we met some of the cast. Anna Skellern, who plays Lexy, is a sydney girl, and as soon as she heard our accents she just wanted to chat! we kept getting shuffled along (there were a few hundred people who wanted things signed) but it was great having a bit of a chat and getting some photos with the cast - Heather Peace is just as hot in person as she is on the small screen, but Anna was just so laid back and lovely.
Back on the bus, straight to sleep again, still in a bottom bunk. we arrived back in London almost an hour early, which meant I had time for a shower AND breakfast before class!
All in all it was a great weekend, and i'm glad I went to the effort to squeeze in a quick trip to Glasgow, which is a beautiful city.