Glasgow - Day 1
We arrived in Glasgow just after lunch on the first day (we made really good time - loading the car the night before made a huge difference).
First off, we went to the Transport Museum which was fun - they have all manner of old trams, buses, trains, cars and bikes as well as some much more recent ones - I still love Mini Metros best of all. They don’t appear to have a Smart car yet though.
Then we crossed the road to visit the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. To be honest the building is considerably more impressive than most of it’s contents. They were revamping it when I left Glasgow but they seem to have forgotten to label any of the exhibits - the whole thing lacks coherence, although the section on art restoration was interesting.
Then we drove into the city centre in search of our hotel. We’d picked the Travelodge Central but I don’t think I’d stay there again. First off they gave us a key card to a room that was obviously already in use - there was someone’s luggage and razor etc on display. Thank goodness they weren’t there when we walked in - that would have been incredibly embarrassing - they could have just got out of the shower or anything!! I didn’t sleep well at all in that hotel - I think I was worried some random person would walk in to our room. Also it turned out that they didn’t have a car park - we had to use the NCP over the road (only £1.50 overnight, but we had to park the car in the West End during the day to avoid extortionate charges).
We ate at Di Maggios in Merchant City that first evening - it was quite tasty really, although the portions were far too large.