Fri., Aug. 5 – Sun., Aug. 7, 2011
Glasgow, Scotland
We settled into the very nice Millennium Hotel, unpacked, and went to find food. There was a very nice Italian restaurant across the square. It is a Jamie Oliver place with a great menu and wine. The lady sitting in the table next to us, told us her son was the 2nd chef. After dinner we took a short walk around the area and decided to make an early start the next morning.
Saturday, after having breakfast at a sidewalk café, we toured an art museum. We then bought a hop on hop off bus ticket and toured around the city. It is much smaller then London of course with a few interesting places to see. We decided to stop at the Botanical Gardens. It was a great choice. It is a pretty drizzly, gray day- so not fun site seeing. We caught the bus back to our hotel and walked back to the shopping area. There is a huge store called Frasers. It sold everything and was not cheap. Outside a Scotland folk band was playing so we stopped to listen and ended up buying a CD.
On our way back to the hotel we picked a pizza at DiMaggio’s. Mark finally feels like he is getting some American cuisine.
Sunday was a very rainy day and I decided I really wanted to rest before taking off for Wales early Monday morning. I have come down with the sniffles and have not been feeling the best the last few days. So we hung out at the hotel pretty much all day- doing a little shopping and stopping at TGI Fridays for supper. Mark was ecstatic- free refills on pop and they could make him a cherry coke.
Our tour guide told us several times: “Glasgow, always a burden, never a pleasure”. I finally understand what he meant- it is a very gloomy, busy city when it rains. Lots of hustle and bustle and shops. We heard they were trying very hard to change the city’s image and renovate the shopping, tourist areas. I will be glad to move on to Wales.
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