Lunch , Royal Scottish Museum and coffee

So it was a long lie this morning, and probably much needed after a long week, and with another few busy days looming. Watched the final stages of the London Marathon , just fantastic to see all these folks raising so much money for charity and running alongside such superb elite athletes.

Headed into town to collect the car which had been left overnight.

We decided go out for lunch for a change and have a look at some of the opposition, tried the Maison Bleue in India Street, for their two course special, then moved on to the Royal Scottish Museum in Cambers Street, looking for a coffee however we ended up viewing some of the exhibits , an old Albany car, going back to 1912, followed by a formula sports car which obviously goes just a bit faster , but not as fast as Jenson Button was going today in Dubai for the grand Prix, he is doing very well, although Lewis Hamilton did manage to do a bit better than he has recently.

Wylam Dilly, the 1813 steam engine, forerunner of all our locomotives, amazing to see how far we have come since then.

Moved on round the corner to the Hotel du Vin, Bistro and Bar, tucked away in a courtyard , a really excellent transformation from the original old building into a lovely hotel - owned by the same group who have No 1 Devonshire Place, Glasgow. We had coffee and petite fours in the whisky lounge, nice , relaxing and comfortable - a nice way to pass an afternoon. They have a very big range of whiskeys, wines, cigars, etc , (at a price) and even have a nice cigar lounge out in the courtyard, quite unusual. Upstairs in the Claret Lounge bar there was an unusual chandelier made out of wine goblets - nice touch.