Spent a few days in Scotland taking my Son back to his University there, we decided to make a long weekend of it and stayed in Dundee which is about 20 minutes drive from his digs in St. Andrews. I'd never been before and it's a bigger city than I'd realised but we were fortunate enough to be staying in a hotel a hundred yards from the V&A museum (pictured above), it's a really interesting building looks a bit like a ship from a distance but almost like a cave or tunnel close up, spent a couple of hours there on Saturday morning having a mooch around. Incidentally, in the photo you can see the Tay rail bridge which has a really interesting history being the site of a famous Victorian rail disaster in UK history back in 1879, fortunately the replacement bridge seems to be holding up a little better than the original, there's even poetry describing events that night..
The train into the girders came,
And loud the wind did roar;
A flash is seen-the Bridge is broke-
The train is heard no more.
"The Bridge is down, "the Bridge is down,"
in words of terror spread;
The train is gone, its living freight
Are numbered with the dead.
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