Again, I’m posting after the event, but I’ve fudged the post date to suit. We went to Broughty Ferry, effectively a suburb of Dundee. N,ot a bad journey, considering: the furthest I’ve driven in one stretch for a good while, and not too tricky either; M6, M74, M73, M80, A9, A90.<\/p>\n
The A9 had gained average speed cameras<\/a> since our last trip<\/a> on the “road of death”. I don’t know if it’s lowered the casualty rate, but reportedly speeding has reduced; thankfully they’ve had the good sense to raise the 40 mph limit for HGVs on the single carriageway bits to 50. Fortunately, we only had DC bits to deal with.<\/p>\n A little bit of getting lost in Dundee itself saw us at our cottage by around 4:30pm, so after a short rest we went out to the first pub<\/a>, then find out what Broughty Ferry is like on a Saturday night (the answer is: busy). It’s a suburb that likes to pretend it isn’t, and it’s a little bit affluent: not as many Range Rovers as Sutton, perhaps, but plenty. It feels smaller though, and public transport to central Dundee was good.<\/p>\n We went to have a look at the new V&A<\/a>, which had opened the day we arrived: a magnificent building, for one so modern. It’s a shame that one view of it will be blocked by what seemed to be another office or hotel being built near it. Near the V&A was the rebuilt station- Dundee has excellent rail connections, at least until Storm Ali<\/a> came along when we’d gone to Perth (but then we found the bus service is good too).<\/p>\n Dundee is a fine city: the city centre is quite compact and easy to navigate, there’s good pubs and restaurants. It’s also home to D C Thomson<\/a>, home of the Beano, and the school that inspired The Bash St kids<\/a> is still there, right in the middle, near the McManus Gallery<\/a>, which had a Beano-themed exhibition on, which was a nice surprise.<\/p>\n We wandered about, visited some fine pubs<\/a>, and had some good food. Even our return journey was decent, at less than 6 hours of driving time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Again, I’m posting after the event, but I’ve fudged the post date to suit. We went to Broughty Ferry, effectively a suburb of Dundee. N,ot a bad journey, considering: the furthest I’ve driven in one stretch for a good while, and not too tricky either; M6, M74, M73, M80, A9, A90. The A9 had gained … Continue reading Broughty Ferry<\/span>