Glasgow, and nearly home

Writing this from Singapore Changi Airport, Morven and I have a 6 hour wait before our flight home. The sore throat I got within 1 hour of setting foot in Scotland has come back, which made the 14hr flight from London to here horrible. Morven’s also been having back pain as of yesterday, I think the 5 degree C of Glasgow has “seized our bodies up right royally”. We’re both using codeine pain killers (for my throat and her back) which should help us get home. Only a 6hr flight from here now to Adelaide!

We are very appreciative of being able to stay with Morven’s family friends, who looked after us and showed us around.

When we arrived on Tuesday, and did a bus tour of Glasgow. On Wednesday we slept in for preventative medicine, walked around the town and then got taken to Stirling to see the castle (which is in the city of Stirling, which is about an hour from Glasgow), and the Falkrik Wheel on the way home. I was particularly excited about seeing the

Falkrik wheel, as it’s very much a feat of engineering. Wednesday night went out for dinner to a very “unique and hip” restaurant in Glasgow, of which I kept the menu for as I’m sure it will be of interest to my artist friend, Jordan. After dinner on Wednesday we got taken for a drive around the streets of Glasgow city and had the ins and outs of the various areas of property and history of property explained to us. It was about this stage I was really feeling horrible, as my leg muscles were all sezing up from the cold and my sore throat was coming back. Morven’s back seized up at this time too, so Thursday morning was very relaxed, and we just went out for lunch before heading off back to the Glasgow Airport.

REALLY looking forward to just getting home, soaking in some sunshine, having a good shower, drinking a bottle of cough syrup, putting some clean clothes on, and sitting on the couch! Currently waiting around for Morven to finish her 30 minute neck and shoulders massage.