{"id":1774,"date":"2019-09-19T02:35:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T02:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2019-09-19T02:35:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T02:35:08","slug":"a-trip-to-glasgow-getting-there-and-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/a-trip-to-glasgow-getting-there-and-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to Glasgow – Getting There and Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August my husband and I ventured across the sea again. The ultimate goal was a week in the Lake District of England with our son and his family, but to get there we flew into Glasgow where we would get the train to Penrith and then to Keswick. But we’d never been in Glasgow, so we planned to spend a couple of days there before going on again.<\/p>\n

Once again, though, getting there was not half the fun.<\/p>\n

The first leg of our trip from Greensboro to Atlanta was routine. Yay! The next leg was definitely not. We took off twenty minutes late for New York\u2019s JFK, which the pilot expected to make up in the air. And he did. What none of us counted on was that something had glitched at JFK and planes were lined up waiting for gates. We had to wait an hour an a half for a gate, sitting on the taxiway. We\u2019d allowed plenty of time for our connection but a lot of people on the plane missed theirs.\u00a0 I was starting to worry about making it when the connection time was down to an hour.<\/p>\n

I needn\u2019t have been concerned. As we were making our way from one terminal to another at JFK, the pilot of our flight was right behind us on an escalator, complaining to another pilot about the delay. He was especially perturbed because he was supposed to be flying to Glasgow in an hour.<\/p>\n

But of course, it didn\u2019t end there. Airport gridlock was still being untangled and we sat at the gate for 30 minutes waiting to push back and then spent the next hour and a half mostly sitting on the taxiway.\u00a0 Because the flight attendants can\u2019t serve meals until the flight is actually in the air, we didn\u2019t eat dinner until something like one in the morning.<\/p>\n

As usual I didn\u2019t sleep on the plane and as usual it didn\u2019t actually bother me very much.<\/p>\n

We got into Glasgow around noon the next day, surprisingly just less than an hour late, breezed through passport control and got a taxi to the hotel, which is right in the heart of the tourist area of Glasgow. After having a quick rest and freshening up a bit, we set out to explore on foot.<\/p>\n

The cab driver who took us from the airport to the hotel suggested a couple of places we should explore while we were there and we discovered a couple of them were only a short walk from our hotel.<\/p>\n

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Buchanan Street in Glasgow<\/p><\/div>\n

Part of Buchanan Street has been turned into a pedestrian shopping mall with a variety of shops, mostly of the upscale variety but interspersed with other, smaller shops. We had fun poking into various places, got lunch from a sandwich shop on Buchanan St., eaten sitting on the side of a subway station, then headed for the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art. I love art, but my tastes tend more to the traditional, however we were so close and it was free, so we figured, \u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say I feel terribly enlightened by the displays, although I did find some quite interesting! An odd piece by Eduardo Paolozzi called \u201cHamlet in a Japanese Manner\u201d was appealing but made no actual sense to me. The museum\u2019s piece de resistance was one of Andy Warhol\u2019s Soup Can paintings, which I find amusing and even admit to some understanding of how his approach carries artistic meaning.<\/p>\n

We spent more time wandering around, just admiring the distinctive architecture, looking in at various places and doing some shopping.<\/p>\n

One of the lovely features of the old part of Glasgow at least, is how much they\u2019ve retained of the old architecture, even when a building\u2019s interior has been completely redone and repurposed. A lot of it is Victorian and much of it reflects the influence of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.<\/p>\n

We stopped in at The Willow Tea Rooms for an early dinner since we planned on an early night after the short, mostly sleepless night before on the plane. The place features interior design and furniture created by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, most notably the very distinctive high-backed chairs. I ordered the traditional afternoon tea, and Jim had haddock patties with salad and a big cup of white mocha. \u00a0We were both well satisfied.<\/p>\n

We headed back to the hotel in a drizzly rain.<\/p>\n

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The Museum of Modern Art in Glasgow<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dinner in the Willow Tea Room. Note the chair design!<\/p><\/div>\n

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