For the next few days I'm gonna be in Scotland
because there's a long bank holiday weekend because of Easter
and yesterday, it was supposed to take us, like,six and half hours to get but it actually took
like, what?
- Ten.
- Ten hours.
So, we left the house at 2pm and we got at just after 12pm, midgnight.
But, today, what I'm gonna do is go and get this lens fixed.
So, for those of you that haven't seen what I did
basically I fell on my lens
and this is the damage.
But I've found a Canon repair centre, so it's about 15 minutes away from where we are at the moment.
So, that is basically what I'm going to do today
and for the next few days, we're just gonna explore Scotland
just explore Glasgow, because that's where we're staying.
But yeah, this is the first that I need to sort out.
I've been trying to find the Canon repair centre
and literally just walked down this really dodgy alley way.
And we've come into a building which I think it's in
but it doesn't look like a business building.
And at the moment, we're walking up to the fifth floor, because I think that's where it is.
This is it. I jsut found a little sign.
So this is where we're about to walk up
and the repair centre is at the top of these little stairs.
This is really weird.
Ok. Finally made it.
I jsut got a verbal quote for the lens.
Even though on the phone I was told it was going to cost about £180,
after they
after having looked at the lens
it looks like it's going to cost about £248 plus VAT
That's gonna be roughly about £300 to fix it
but luckily I have insurance
so, I'll get a formal quote sent to me via email
and then I'll send that off to my insurance company
and then that should be it.
All I'll have to pay is my excess, which is £50.
So yeah
definitely a good idea to have insurance for any of your gear.
Whilst we were in Cafe Nero
the Barista mentioned that there was this place called the Lighthouse
which is where I am at the moment.
I thought it was an actual lighthouse but it turns out it's, like, a gallery.
If you go to the very top of the lighthouse
then there's
you'll be able to see a complete view of Glasgow city
so that's where we're headed.
So, remember a couple of weekends ago I got the ZEISS 85mm Batis lens
I just had a little play around with it now
the first time since I got it
and it looks awesome. Check it out.
One of the main reasons we came to Scotland was because we wanted to go to Loch Lomond Nation Park
and we stayed in Glasgow for the past two days just because we wanted to have a walk around the city
and I wanted to do my lens.
But today, we've actually come the national park
and we've just driven up, I think it's called Duke's Pass.
There're winding roads, basically, that go through the mountains
and behind me, I can't remember if this mountain behind me is called Ben Lomond
but it is around here somewhere. It might be further down
but there's just all these mountains that you're driving through.
There're sheer drops on some of the roads as well, which is quite scary but kind of cool.
But it's just really quiet here as well
until a car comes by
like now, there's one coming up.
It's a really nice place.
So we're just gonna keep driving and see if we can find somewhere to hike
just maybe a little mountain to hike up
or just try and find more roads to drive round
because it's just really, really pretty. Really nice place.
So, this is the first hike that we've gotten to
I'm not gonna try and pronounce the name of it because I'll just get it wrong anyway
but there's a really nice view behind me of the lake
and in front of me that's the summit that we're headed to.
I can't remember how high it is but it's quite high
I think it's gonna take about an hour to climb.
But yeah, that's where we're headed.
We just got to the top and it looks really cool up here.
The view's absolutely amazing.