Scotland chapter two

I am nearly finished reading the first Outlander book, hence my thinking in chapters.  We watched several episodes at home and liked it, and I then picked up in the book where we'd left off in the show. I have mixed feelings, will have to see if I want to continue with either the books or the show. It's a little too romantized for me, but I love the details of 18th century life.  

We are now ensconsed in our Glasgow penthouse, this is our third day here. The apartment is great, with a few annoying quirks.  One, you can't open the fridge if the door to the living room/kitchen is open, which is more frustrating than it might sound. But in general the space is wonderful. We have a balcony with a great view of the city. And plenty of room to relax. The building was originally headquarters of the Anchor Shipping Line, and much of the artwork is related to that. Apparently many or most of the rooms have vestiges of the original building. But the penthouse level was built on top of the original building. I plan to ask the reception if we can look into one of the apartments after checkout time to see what they are like. 

To finish up on our time in Pitlochry: 

We went to a play at the beautiful local theatre, which performs a number of productions in rotation. We went to a performance of The 39 Steps based on the Hitchcock film. It was performed by four actors playing a large number of roles. It was very clever and well done. The place was originally a tent theatre, like the North Shore Music Theatre at home, and the Cape Cod Music Tent, and others. It is now a highly regarded venue. I imagine some folks come from other locations for a day or more partly to attend shows. They have a new director who will take over next year. It's the well known actor Alan Cummings. I actually remember reading about it at home.  He's from the area originally. I believe he proposed himself and interviewed for the position.  

We ate at a different restaurant each night, including the Coach House, the Old Mill. McKays, the Aulde Smitty Inn, and on our anniversary, on August 14th, at Fern Cottage.  They were all fine, but the Fern Cottage was by far the best. If you're going to Pitlochry, I highly recommend it as well as our B&B. 

The train from Pitlochry to here in Glasgow was about a two hour ride, but the train was over a half hour later. It didn't matter much to us, but there was at least one person who was a bit panicked (oxymoron?) because they were catching a plane in Edinbourgh and had two switch trains to get to the airport. On the train, there was an announcement apologizing for the delay, ( due to the heavy rains the day before) and explaining that  we were all due for a refund because the train was over a half hour later. Loring did it while we were in the train and we received the refund before we even reached Glasgow.