The plan today was to complete our travels and start enjoying our first destination, Glasgow Scotland. I speak of Monday and Tuesday as 2 days like normal people but we slept very little on the long flight overseas.
After landing in Dublin, the next jump was to Edinburgh. That was a short 1 hour flight over the Irish Sea. Edinburgh is a terrific city we have enjoyed often in previous adventures but Glasgow is our target this week.
From Edinburgh we traveled by bus to Glasgow after using the Edinberg tram to get to the bus station. Before we settled in our Airb&b, we will have traveled by air (3 flights), tram, bus, Uber and taxi.
We collected our bags and got a cab to our Airb&b.
Our cab driver was a salty and delightful personality so he perked up our day. After assessing our level of fatigue we decided on one objective for the day. We set out to visit the University of Glasgow.
A few bits of trivia about Glasgow. The formal royal establishment of the city was 1406 one year before the university was founded in 1407. However there was a settlement at the site as the 500s. That’s one old town. The city sits on the banks of the river Clyde. As it happens, my grandfather, Alexander Malcolm was born in Glasgow in 1899.
Glasgow is a bustling, active city but what jumps out is the mixture of the ancient with the modern. And being in the neighborhoods near the university took us along some beautiful streets.
The University of Glasgow is the 4th oldest University in the English-speaking world, founded by the authority of the pope in 1451. Most of the current buildings date to the 19th century. We enjoyed the Gothic architecture and some more recent buildings such as the library.
Malcolms in Scotland 23 