Glasgow – only a stopover

Ryan Air flies its cattle class flights from Stanstead Airport and getting there even from Putney is an adventure in itself. Mainline train, tube trains and the Stanstead Express itself relieved us of the best part of £20. We picked up our hire car (£220 for 10 days) and headed off to Glasgow. Despite the fact Glasgow is a million people, they left me a parking spot on a steep hill maybe 3 blocks from the centre, so I was content to park there for a couple of hours and wander around. Our first intent was to buy a cheap digital camera.

The saga started when we went to use our 18 month old 5M Panasonic only to find that it had suffered a stroke so to speak the day before we left. Attempts to get someone to look at it approved impossible before we left and the prospects of having no pictures from beautiful Scotland was not a thought worth bearing. The likes of Curries and Dixons had cheap name brands (well recognizable anyway) from £120 up, usually more like £150! On an impulse, we tried Woolworths (equivalent to our Big W without the trappings) and picked up a £50 Medion 5MP digital. Adding a 500 Meg SD card for £25 and 2 Lithium (lee-thee-yum as I keep telling Karoleena) batteries for £5 and we were in business!

Now Medion is not a brand I have heard of but I was heartened to see that Woolies also offered the Medion PC range as well. They know quality! Well something that should get through a 12 month warranty at least.

The advantage of this camera is that it is pocket sized. Very handy for a handbag, jeans pocket or coat pocket. My Panasonic has a good Leica lens and is SLR sized and sometimes this is clumsy to carry around and makes you stand out as well with associated camera bags, etc. My only hope was that the Medion would take an acceptable photo.

All the photos that follow are from our little camera - so I feel it was a very acceptable choice.