A Wee Trip to Glasgow

A final entry in this catch-up series. Edinburgh is only 45 minutes away from Glasgow, but we had not yet taken the time to head over there until last weekend. It was determined that it was high time for us to venture to Glasgow to see the sights. We didn’t have too ambitious of an agenda. Basically, I wanted to see the science centre (which I had heard was cool), at least one museum, and go to a brewpup they have there.

A note about Glasgow, which is not meant to be derogatory in any way: their accent is thicker than the one in Edinburgh, and as a result, the folks there can be harder to understand. Just for the record.

There seemed to be some kind of sporting event going on in town the day we were there. It was somewhat surreal, actually. Kellie and I were moderately lost in a moderately sketchy part of town looking for the aforementioned science centre, and everywhere we saw droves of people migrating toward some unseen Mecca, sporting scarves and shirts with their team colours and logos on them. By the time we finished with the science centre, the streets were utterly abandoned. It was peaceful, yet creepy.

Overall, it was a cool city. A stark contrast to Edinburgh, though. Glasgow is much more, shall we say, industrial, but perhaps at the same time more hip. Although, on the whole, I prefer Edinburgh and have really started to feel at home there, I do wish we had the brewpub that we visited in our city – the WEST Brewing Company. They don’t really do brewpubs over here, so it was quite a lovely experience.