Up to the city today and I went to The Kelvingrove Art Gallery, always a good place to go when you’re in the city. I came here last week but it was closed due to a strike by the gallery staff.

I was meeting Grace for lunch in Partick so it made sense to kill two birds with the one stone. Lunch was delicious, I had 干面, or dry noodles in a spicy peanut sauce and it was absolutely amazing, one of my favourite dishes that I often had when in China.

Here are some of the interesting things from the art gallery.

The technology of the past is quite incredible and it would be very difficult today to replicate many of these ancient pieces.

Walking through Partick I was staggered at the amount of Chinese everywhere. There are shops a plenty of course, which will introduce many Glaswegians to local Chinese fare. However I was not prepared for the amount of young Chinese students, they were everywhere and the only language you hear at times is Mandarin, many years ago the second language in Scotland was Polish but now I think it may be Chinese.

To get to Patrick I took the underground, the old noisy Glasgow subway, haven’t been on it in years and not much has changed apart from that very particular smell that we always associated with it.