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On a train to Glasgow following the footsteps of my Grandfather Thomas Mackenzie…he and his family would have made the journey to London all those years ago to board the P&O ship “Borda” bound for Australia as Scottish emigrants. He was 7 years old and left Bellshill near Glasgow. I wonder what their journey was like? I’m in first class on a Virgin train speeding through the English Midlands…a glass of wine, cup of coffee, wonderful scenery….fields of wheat almost ready to Harvest, villages, sheep in green pastures, churches surrounded by graves, canals with wonderfully painted long houseboats, fresian dairy cows, rain clouds, dry stone walls… Arrived into Glasgow central and checked into my hotel which is just so nice…an old railway building transformed! Walked to the River Clyde and around the CBD.