The Thursday Ramble: I've been there.

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There is generally a special pleasure in seeing photos of places I have been, and I have traveled a lot in north America and Europe, so it happens often.  There are places we have traveled to, to see things that we have seen and read about on blogs.  Inspired by Angus we spent a few hours in St. Andrews last spring and I am often thrilled to see his photos of places we visited, and wishing he would post a travel guide so we could have found a few places he frequents that we didn't stumble across (there is a great bookstore there - someplace.) 

Glasgow was not on the original agenda for our visit to Scotland last May, it was added when I found a good price on really nice airline seats from there to fly home.  We were so glad we added Glasgow, we really enjoyed the city and the people.  It is post industrial city with amazing architecture. We arrived in Glasgow by train from Edinburgh, the train station is a masterpiece. We were so enchanted by the area around the station, that we walked back there one day to explore. 

I was shocked a week ago on Sunday to see news reports of a tragic fire, the building that was destroyed (see first image) was just beyond the glass roof on this side of the station. The station and the hotel in the station are closed, there is smoke damage and ongoing engineering assessments. It has been determined that the remains of the building that burned are unstable and must be taken down before the front part of the station can be safely reopened. (Platforms on the other end of the station are providing limited train service.)  This was a strange sense, of "oh I have been there" "how terrible."