If you're visiting Glasgow, or live here and want to take advantage of the sunshine to get to know it a bit better, my book Glasgow Uncovered is here to help. I've just dropped off a new batch at Bigglestones Books on Glassford Street in the city centre, so you can pick one up today and head out to explore the city. Just remember the sunscreen (it's not very often you have to say that in Glasgow!)
It's nestled in a hollow, known as a corrie, carved out by a glacier during the last ice age, and is surrounded by a horseshoe of three munros (the name given to a mountain over 3000 ft in height in Scotland). These are Ben Lawers (left), An Stùc (middle), and Meall Garbh (right).
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Glasgow not only has amazing architecture, culture and people, it also has some stunning wild places within easy reach. This is Lochan nan Cat, in the Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve, where I found myself today.
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For those who are interested, Glasgow Uncovered, my book of walks around the city, is now available from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) bookshop on Rutland Square in Edinburgh.
Today felt like a day to up early and get out of Glasgow for a bit, so I headed up to Loch Lomond for some much overdue canoeing. If you're from Glasgow, it's easy to forget that not every city has such spectacular scenery quite to close ot it!
The view down Blantyre Street in the West End of Glasgow.
The towers and turrets of the late Victorian Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow rising above the trees of Kelvingrove Park in the city's West End, and doing their best to make it look like a fairytale castle surrounded by an enchanted forest.
It's always nice to see a book you've written in the window of a bookshop! In this case, it's my recent one, Glasgow Uncovered, in the window of Bigglestones on Glassford Street in the Merchant city area of the city.
Sonata for a Turd and Two Neolithic Stones: I have a yet to be developed negative in the works that I have great hopes for, with the above working title. It was taken at Callanish II, and I only spotted the turd when the camera was fully set up: fresh, large and well formed, tastefully decorated with toilet paper. I am pretty sure its author was on a Rabbies tour which stopped there only about 20min earlier while I was taking pictures at the nearby Callanish III. This is in a village, 100m from someone’s house. It would have required suitable tools to remove, which I didn’t have with me … what the fuck is wrong with people?! ... #Scotland, #VisitScotland, #StandingStones, #Turd, #Photography, #LargeFormat: https://aye.tf/2025/05/20/sonata-for-a-turd
There's an unwritten rule in Glasgow that you can't visit Pollok Country Park without taking at least one photograph of the park's resident Highland cows, so here's mine from today.
