Monday 3 October 2022--Sleep in late, get out late. First order of business is to find a chemist's--that's a drugstore to us Yanks. I've been managing aching feet with Tylenol, and I'm out. Find a Boots on Sauchiehall Street and get some paracetamol, which is the same thing. Then look for a place to have coffee and a nibble. The café in Waterstones is the best nearest option.

Wander back down the pedestrianized Sauchiehall and Buchanan Streets without any real goal. Find myself standing in front of the entrance to the Glasgow Subway's St Enoch station. The subway is a peculiar thing, not least because the locals like to call it the subway, rather than the underground or the tube. A 6½-mile circular loop with two tracks, one running clockwise and the other counter-clockwise, was opened in 1896, and has never been expanded, despite numerous proposals. The Flemish Renaissance-style sandstone building beyond was the original station entrance, and also housed the headquarters of the Glasgow District Subway Railway Company. It's now home to a Caffè Nero. The new entrances were built during a comprehensive modernization in 1977-80. (The original 1896 cars were still in use until then!) The glass canopies are much more recent, I think 2010s. I've never been on the subway, and standing here in St Enoch Square, I'm thinking I should go for a ride, just to do it. I might go over to the West End for a pint at the Lismore, or Tennents. But I'm suddenly hit by an overwhelming wave of fatigue. Go back to my room and sleep away the rest of a dark drizzly afternoon.

[In February 2023, Ron and I made the trip described above. Photo below of the subway train is from then.]

Get out early in the evening...another non-productive day, but I don't really care. I'm ready to go home. I have dinner and a couple of pints at the Bon Accord, a pub I've wanted to check out for a while. I'm back in the Pot Still to close out my night, and my trip. The staff are awesome--tell them what sort of dram you want, and they'll pull down half a dozen bottles for you to nose. Makes it worth spending a couple of nights in Glasgow, even if you don't do much else.