Jennifer is in Scotland for the weekend and we have travelled up to Dundee to visit the V&A, and tomorrow to take David and Chanel out for lunch. Before we set off we went across the road to visit Grandma and she was delighted to see Jennifer. We travelled by train, wheeling our little cases behind us down to the station and then across from Central Station to Queen Street Station. It was a lovely sunny morning and we chatted and enjoyed watching the fields and towns as we travelled north to Perth and then east to Dundee.
After checking in to our hotel we went straight to the V&A and had a coffee sitting out on the balcony of the café. The reflections of the Tay and the blue sky in the glass wall of the building looked splendid. We went to the video games exhibition which was unexpectedly (for me!) fascinating; I felt that I really understood more about the ideas and designs of gaming which have always been a bit of a mystery to me. After a hilarious dinner, during which Jennifer ordered the “award-winning” vegetarian burger, which reminded us of the “world’s best coffee” scene from Elf, we went to see a romantic comedy at the cinema, which was called “The Long Shot.” The plot was so unlikely and unbelievable and indeed crude at times that it isn’t even worth going into, but it did have some valid role reversal ideas, and some parts were quite funny. We took a taxi back to the hotel and we were chatting to our very pleasant driver about how Dundee has been benefiting from the regeneration of the waterfront area which has brought many visitors from around the world.
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