Glasgow

We have loved our time in Glasgow. It is a really interesting city with very friendly people and so easy to find our way around. Added to that we have loved spending time with Seamus and Jaqueline. Yesterday we ate a lovely breakfast at the hotel before setting off in light drizzle for a 7 km walk basically following the bus route from the previous day. Walked along the banks of the Clyde River to the Squinty Bridge, the SSE Hydro arena and auditoritium. They are amazing pieces of architecture built for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. We carried on to the Westend where we veered back into the main shopping area. There we separated for two and a half hours and looked around the shops. Some of the centres off Buchanan Street were amazing such as the Princess Square and the St Enoch Centre. Meeting up again we ate lunch at an American themed bar at 3pm. We refreshed at the hotel before boarding the Glasgow underground for Seamus’s. It was so easy to use as only goes in a circle and we were there in 10 minutes. Seamus picked us up and drove us another 5 minutes to their lovely tenement home. Jaqueline cooked a beautiful meal (so welcome after all our hotel food) and special that Flora McNulty joined us. Their two Russian Blue cats were entertaining and we had a wonderful night. When it came time to return to the subway we all realised we had had too much wine to drive anywhere so the four of us set off on a lovely 15 minute walk first to the University of Glasgow and Flora’s flat and then to the Subway station (totalled 29465 steps of walking for the day!) We were back at the hotel probably before Seamus and Jaqueline walked home! All in all a lovely night with my NZ cousin. Tomorrow we leave for Windermere. Slightly nervous as weather warnings for high winds are out. Hopefully it will come to nothing.Leer más