The Blythswood Hotel to the Menzies Hotel - Traffic Lights & Burning Rubber

The Journey from The Blythswood Hotel to the Menzies Hotel was one I did often as Team Nigeria had officials staying at both hotels, which meant frequent trips between the two.

The hotels are 1.2 miles apart - a '5 min' trip but thanks to Glasgow's traffic lights this could be much longer thanks to the six sets of lights on the journey from the Blythswood to the Menzies which needed to be negotiated thanks to the one way system in place. The trip could take up to 15 frustrating minutes, if the traffic lights decided to be against you.


The return trip from The Menzies to The Blythswood although quicker than the reverse trip as there were ‘only’ three sets of lights on the route did however have one the steepest hills I have ever had to negotiate – the junction Douglas St & St George St.

I held the clutch so long you could smell burning as I did my hill start. For this reason I avoided the manual cars as the smell of burning rubber became very bad, and with me hand wavering over the handbrake and my foot wavering on the clutch it was all very tense and smelly!