Views from a bus
Day trip to Glasgow
13.10.2013 - 13.10.2013
13 °C
It was a very late night last night with Kona - Aussies were successful - Men's Pro second place with Luke McKenzie being overrun towards the end - Mirinda ran beautifully to finish strong for the Women's Pro win. With Kristian's athletes - Karla (our 66 year old superwoman) finished 3rd in her age group (a second third place, beating her previous Kona time) and Ross with a debut at Kona in just over 10 hours ... needless to say, it was a very late night to catch the finish of the pros and a very early morning to see Karla cross the line, unfortunately I didn't quite judge Rosco's finish time well enough - he finished before I woke up.
Since we had a good wander around Edinburgh town yesterday, we decided to pop down to Glasgow for the day today. I had a quick nap in the car as Jeff drove - took us just over an hour. We had a quick wander through the main street before hopping on a double decker open roof bus for an hour and a half cruise around the city. We found this intriguing window dressing in the mall ... a shop full of singer (and other brands) sewing machines - covering all the front and two side windows, as well as the back wall inside the shop - it was an incredible sight and rather ingenious, let alone quite arty!
Tailor showing off their singer sewing machine collection
We saw all the old sights around town but also saw some new ones ...
Modern art mixing with the older age - outside the Museum of Modern Art

Glasgow Opera House - upturned hulls to represent the now depleted shipping industry

Graffiti art commissioned by the city - courtesy of an Aussie street artist
We finished off with another wander through the centre of town - and Dad, yes we finally saw an amazing piper and drum band - Caledonia - loved them so much I bought their CD - yes, really, so all the boys can continue to listen to the pipes after we get home!
Caledonia - pipe and drum band
Last night in Scotland and we went out to a French restaurant - not sure why ... then we went home to pack all our goodies ready for our big trip home.
Posted by DJBnomadz 15:10 Archived in Scotland Tagged glasgow kona Comments (1)