Last night's kipping spot was a good distance away from the road, such that only the loudest of exhaust pipes could be heard. The downside was being immediately adjacent to a railway track with a frequent service (all quiet between around 11pm and 6am), but it did put us within an easy walk of a railway station this morning to take us into Glasgow for a bit of touristing.
We started our day in the city with walking part of the route of the Glasgow Mural Trail, taking in 15 of the 25 artworks detailed on the Trail's website (14 really as one was almost completely covered by hoardings). Those by a chap called Smug particularly stood out for their quality. (Note: to reduce the number of photos I need to attach to this post I've used collages of three photos each. Hopefully the dividing lines between the works are clear enough.)
The collage immediately above is of a single work, which covered a huge area (the entire length of a sizeable car park). It took four photos to capture it all, although I've only included three here.
We found a couple of works not mentioned on the Mural Trail website, of which this was one.
By the time we'd seen all of those we were ready for elevenses, so via George Square ...
Impressive town hall!
...we made our way to a Wetherspoons for bottomless cups of hot drinks. Because of their pricing structure, it made sense to have items off their breakfast menu with those drinks, which we followed a while later with a couple of lunches. As is usually the case with Wetherspoons, the building itself was worth seeing, having originally been built in the 1800s for the Royal Bank of Scotland.
I threw various ideas for our afternoon's activities at Mick over lunch and a visit to The Lighthouse (the first architectural project of Mackintosh and housing an exhibtion about his work) won. A little detour on our way there took us to the Tourist Office where an enthusiastic assistant talked us through, in detail, what there is to see and do in and around the city. As a result, after we'd visited The Lighthouse ...
View from The Lighthouse's tower, having ascended 135 steps
...we nipped into the Museum of Modern Art. The benefit of most museums in the UK being free ('donations appreciated') is that there's nothing necessarily lost by going to one that you suspect may not be your cup of tea, and this was a case in point. The building was interesting (and there were a couple of exhibits about its history) as were a couple of the film-based works and a few other bits and pieces. There was also plenty that one, other or both of us walked by with barely a glance.
By then rush hour was almost upon us so (via M&S for a couple of deli salads for tea) we hotfooted it back to the station for the train back to Bertie. There are plenty of things left in Glasgow that I wouldn't mind seeing, but with the problem that they're spread far and wide.
We started our day in the city with walking part of the route of the Glasgow Mural Trail, taking in 15 of the 25 artworks detailed on the Trail's website (14 really as one was almost completely covered by hoardings). Those by a chap called Smug particularly stood out for their quality. (Note: to reduce the number of photos I need to attach to this post I've used collages of three photos each. Hopefully the dividing lines between the works are clear enough.)
By the time we'd seen all of those we were ready for elevenses, so via George Square ...
...we made our way to a Wetherspoons for bottomless cups of hot drinks. Because of their pricing structure, it made sense to have items off their breakfast menu with those drinks, which we followed a while later with a couple of lunches. As is usually the case with Wetherspoons, the building itself was worth seeing, having originally been built in the 1800s for the Royal Bank of Scotland.
I threw various ideas for our afternoon's activities at Mick over lunch and a visit to The Lighthouse (the first architectural project of Mackintosh and housing an exhibtion about his work) won. A little detour on our way there took us to the Tourist Office where an enthusiastic assistant talked us through, in detail, what there is to see and do in and around the city. As a result, after we'd visited The Lighthouse ...
...we nipped into the Museum of Modern Art. The benefit of most museums in the UK being free ('donations appreciated') is that there's nothing necessarily lost by going to one that you suspect may not be your cup of tea, and this was a case in point. The building was interesting (and there were a couple of exhibits about its history) as were a couple of the film-based works and a few other bits and pieces. There was also plenty that one, other or both of us walked by with barely a glance.
By then rush hour was almost upon us so (via M&S for a couple of deli salads for tea) we hotfooted it back to the station for the train back to Bertie. There are plenty of things left in Glasgow that I wouldn't mind seeing, but with the problem that they're spread far and wide.
Good idea to take the train. The Mackintosh visit would have also been my target.
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