Riverside Museum

May 6, 2015

On the banks of the Clyde stands the transportation museum & tall ship ‘Glenlee’. A real mix of buses, horse drawn trams, motorcycles, cars and more. With views up & down the Clyde Two wheels Sidecars 3 Wheels the 2nd oldest Rolls Royce Buses And even firetrucks And trains

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Botanic Garden, Glasgow

May 6, 2015

It comes as no surprise to any readers how much I love gardens.  I apologize for the fact that my pictures can never do them justice.  And you must also realize by now that Britain loves glasshouses. So as today showed promise of sun, or a least only light showers, I headed off to the […]

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Hop on – Hop off, Glasgow

May 5, 2015

There is a very good double decker (top half covered) tour bus that can take you to most of the important sites to see around the city.  28 stops in all.  £13 of one day & £15 for two with a £ off for old geezers like me. (FYI if you have a US Mac, […]

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Victoria House, Renfrew Street, Glasgow

May 5, 2015

For once, a travel break!  The walk from the Lomond Park Hotel to the train station was only around 100 meters.  Less than an hour later I was hailing a cab to get from the Charing Cross train station to the hotel. The streets were a little too much to tackle with a backpack & […]

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The People’s Palace, Glasgow

May 5, 2015

Opened in 1898 the People’s Palace & Winter Garden was created to provide a cultural center for the common people. The glasshouse gave comfort and hope during the winter and the museum is an eclectic gathering of all things Glasgow. Outside stands the Doulton Fountain, the largest terra-cotta fountain in the world. In the US […]

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Glasgow Cathedral

May 5, 2015

The next stop was to see the Cathedral. Building was begun in the 12th century and prior to the Reformation, it was the high Roman Catholic church built on the site of the patron saint of Glasgow St Mungo’s first church.

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Balloch/Loch Lomond – Updated

May 4, 2015

Rain gone, sun out. Hair cut.  Time to wander. The River Leven runs out of the Loch to the Clyde.  There is a nice walk along it’s banks to Loch Lomand.With a length of 24 miles and a width of 5, it has the largest surface area of any body of water in Britain. It […]

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A haircut in Balloch

May 4, 2015

Although colder than normal, it  was a bright, sunny day. The first thing I needed to do was a haircut.  Just up the road from the Logan Park Hotel was a proper barber shop.  Not stylist or cuttery or some such but a simple men’s barber. When the 29 year old Iwona asked me what […]

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Loch Lomond

May 3, 2015

Not sure really why I’m here.  I guess it was to visit a great loch before Glasgow. The weather today was horrid.  I had planned to get a taxi from where I had stayed to the ferry but apparently the owners had stayed up to watch the big boxing bout and slept in.  By the […]

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Celebrating Life in Scotland

May 2, 2015

Today wasn’t as brilliant as yesterday so, thankfully, long walks were not in the cards.  The southern route around the island, the 323 I think, was so dramatic yesterday with it’s tight squeezes and twisting hairpin turns, was worth another go.  Yesterday I told our female driver that if anyone suggested that women were not […]

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