Day 21 Glasgow Hertiage sites!

Another day has dawned, another day to see the wonders we can find!
We head down to breaky ohh my goodness, the noise... The wedding guests from yesterday’s wedding were all in the dining room and extremely loud and noisy. I thought Aussies were loud when we get together but I think the Scots have it over us! So once breaky is had off we go to down load all my pics then head off to Bothwell Castle!

On arrival we see lots of fencing and scaffolding, hmmmm! First we walk around it to just take it in seeing lots of fencing around the whole bottom section of it was a bit off putting, then quite a large amount of scaffolding really was off putting! Once we went to pay to go in the guy in the shop told us that there is extensive refuge going on so not to put us off we could go in but you could access any of the usual sights there.... so we decided not to go in at all a shame but not worth it just to see what we had already scene on the outside!

So off to Glasgow itself to see some more heritage sites! We found the Mitchell Library worth a few pics, then onto the Botanical Gardens to see the beautiful glass hot houses... just unreal their shape and design.... On the way in we saw a Police Tartdis unreal these Scots being like Dr Who to get to work... plus they sell coffee as well with a sign next to it advertising coffees!

We wander around the hot house and they have so many of the plants I grow at home unreal, to see them here kinda felt disappointed as it was the same plants nothing different for us! Except for the Pitcher Plant Room, sadly most were dead, but many looked great... Last delight was a Squirrel eating happily away!

Back to the car we had parked at a shopping centre so decided to buy a bit of lunch here and eat in the car... a bit cheaper we thought but by the time we added up our cuppa and food not a lot different to going to a cafe!

Lesson 1 not always is it too dear to eat out if planned right!

Next stop the Glasgow University wow what an amazing building it really is, I went to see the Cloisters unbelievable area of amazing arches.... worth visiting for sure we could have had ages looking but time didn’t permit so did we came for and off we speed to out next stop or should I say pass by... Clyde Arc, SEC Armadillo building, a massive building like a big flying saucer, then we stopped at the Riverside Museum and Tall ship.... wow did this place blow us away.. it had so much to see and read there was no way we could do it all so we just looked over the whole place blown away with everything in it! There are over 3,000 objects for transport on display one of the best displays we have ever scene.... from skate boards, to trains, buses, cars, motorbikes, pushbikes, prams on and on and on... all from over the last 2 centuries full size trains not toys, and full size buses, trams and cars etc... so many vintage cars my mind was a boggle.... worth stumbling onto and free to boot!
Time had come to an end we really have only touched the surface of Glasgow which I was starting to think had nothing to offer!

So headed home John had cuppa soup and my left over lunch instead of going out... been a big one and to tomorrow an even bigger one we head to Ullapool 7 hrs north and have quite a lot to see on the way, see how we go!Read more