Glasgow

Glasgow is an amazing city. It has buildings and places that have been around longer than Canada has even been a country. Kathy and I explored on our own. The rest of the family went to Troon. The Open, a PGA event, was being held in Troon and dad wanted to go.

After a lazy morning, we headed back to a large pink/red stone building we had seen the night before. It was the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. The inside and outside were both pretty amazing.

From the Art Gallery we could see a tower from the University of Glasgow and it called to us. So we used to tower to try and find roads that would get us there. Along the way we found a world culture festival set in a park, that had a stage for shows and booths of food and goods for sale.

We lingered for a while and ate but eventually returned to our search for the university. After many twists and turns, roads that ended in fences we eventually found a way to get (in)to the University of Glasgow grounds.

Created in 1451 by a papal bull, the University of Glasgow is 400+ years older than Canada and doesn’t even make the top 10 oldest universities in the world.

We wandered around the campus for a while. Then we decided to head across Glasgow to The Necropolis, something Kathy and I were both interested in. We wouldn’t have done it if the rest of the family had been there. They would have found it morbid and weird. Along the way, we walked through town and window shopped. I even found the Tardis.

We also passed by the Glasgow Cathedral that is at the bottom of the hill below the Necropolis.

Then we spent hours at The Necropolis. We managed to see only some of the 37 acres and 50,000 headstone of the people remembered at The Necropolis.

Then we headed back to the hotel to meet with the others and find somewhere for dinner. We went up and down the roads near our hotel to find somewhere we could all agree on. Eventually, we ended up at a pub near our hotel.

We settled in our rooms after we left the pub and had an early night. The plan was to start driving early so we could head into the Highlands and explore some Lochs.