We took a day trip to Glasgow yesterday which was about an hour bus ride from Edinburgh and it only cost us £3 return each. Good to know our old student passes still work for something. Before we went a few people told us how dirty and boring Glasgow was. A few even said that they never wanted to go back there.
When we arrived we went straight the main square called "George's Square" where they had a jazz festival going on so we stayed and watched that for a while. The city council building overlooks the square and is an amasing building. I am not sure on the date but a rough guess would say it is about 300 to 400 years old at least. When then spent the next hour trying to find a hard rock cafe (since I collect the shot glasses from eveywhere we go) and ended up going in circles from everybody`s directions. We ended up getting frustrated and used the internet in a Mcdonalds and went on the Hardrock website to find out they don't have a cafe in Glasgow. We did get to see a lot of the finacial district of Glasgow though so it wasn't all a waste.
After that we decided on a walk down by the river and then went off to the Glasgow cathedral. Absolutley amazing. It was by far our favortie part of Glasgow. The cathedral was built in the 1400's and you can see a lot of similatries between this cathedral and a lot of English cathdrals like St. Pauls, Ely, and Oxford. I must have taken about 50 pictures alone of this cathedral.....Such a tourist.....
Overall though Glasgow is a nice city. There is not as much to see there as there is in Edinburgh though and like people told us it is kind of dirty. The buildings are a lot more modern in Glasgow so if your looking for more historic buildings then Edinbugh is the place to visit. If we had to gone to Glasgow first I am sure we would have liked it more since we had nothing to really compare it to. If I was going to compare it to cities in Canada, Glasgow would be Toronto and Edinburgh would be Ottawa.
Anyways the rest of today we are shopping for supplies for our camping trip since we leave early tomorrow, and I think we are off to a bar tonight with my sister and her friends. Probably make for a rough morning.....good thing I am not driving.
I will make a new post in about 10 days as I don't think there will be to many times to get access to a computer.
Talk to you all soon
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Here's some interesting stuff about Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Have fun on the camping trip!
Here's some more about the Glasgow Cathedral if anyone wants to learn more.
Learning is fun.
Take a look at arthurs seat. You can get a great view of it from the bottom of the Royal Mile.
Also we went to see the palace where the Queen stays when she is in Edinburgh and there were cops everywhere which is unusual. But Prince William just graduated from Uni in St. Andrews so we think most of the Royal family is here for the week. Havn't seen them yet though. Will keep you posted...
sounds like you aren't too fond of that pale guy
Holy giant blogs batman
I have enough trouble keeping up with curt's blog let alone reading these novels... well i'll do my best but it's a good thing you guys don't have much access to the internet
Hey kids, glad to hear things are going well, Paul and I are just spending some time catching up on emails while waiting for Temple Bar to open (its not a bar alone.. it's shopping district!) We're going to the Guinness Storehouse today too for my bday! should be a fun tour. We're getting millions of pics of everything, so I'll make sure to learn to make a website and put all that jazz up for you to see since I've finally made it out of Canada. Talk to you soon!
When you get back from scotland if you need to use the internet or whatever just stop by our house. You can use it whenever you want. Hope you are having fun. Later
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