Stop 1: Trip and Glasgow (Sept. 12-13)

Our flight from Boston to Glasgow involved a plane change in Reykjavik so our first day involved breakfast in Reykjavik and lunch in Glasgow.

Things started off in Glasgow with a bit of a challenge. Our cab driver dropped us off at the Premier Hotel on George Square. Not only did they not have a reservation for us, they had never heard of the Premier Suites Plus (which is where we did have a reservation). They were only a couple of blocks away so we did eventually figure it out. We had Queen Street mixed up with George Street and, since our hotel had no signage other than a brass plate by the doorbell, no one had ever heard of it. We eventually found someone at another hotel on George Square who could point us in the right direction.

We were only in Glasgow for one night with plans to return at the end of the Scotland leg of our trip.

We stopped into a local pub for lunch and each had a tapas combination plate that included a tapas version of haggis (fried, breaded balls of haggis). We had kind of dared ourselves to try haggis but we found it to be quite good (I guess that it would have to have something going for it - why else would the Scots eat it?).

That's the haggis on the left.

Just to show that I ate it (I even had one of Kristen's haggis balls too)..

We did a bit of sightseeing but primarily spent our time recovering from the trip.

Our room overlooked George Square.

That's the City Hall at one end of George Square.

We had the four windows above the planter above and to the right of the statue's head.

Night view of Queen Street Station across George Square (from our room).

Night view of George Square and City Hall (from our room).

A couple of interesting things that we spotted while walking around:

We liked the facade of this building, George Street splits and goes around the church on the left. For some reason, they've named the island of land that the church is on Nelson Mandela Plaza.

Glasgow has a couple of miles of pedestrian mall. We were kind of amazed by this one shop. It's just a clothing store but it's decorated with the largest collection of old Singer sewing machines that we've ever seen.

  

-JC-