Glasgow: Day Fourteen

For our only full day in Glasgow, our main goal was visiting a dinosaur museum. Unfortunately, we looked and there were no T. Rex's to be found in Glasgow, so our streak of seeing a T. Rex in every city came to an end. This meant going to the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow University and taking a bus to get over there. 

Walking to the museum, we stumbled upon the Cloisters, which I absolutely loved and took far too many pictures of. It is said that JK Rowling was inspired by these when writing about Hogwarts. 

The Hunterian Museum was started by a rich old guy back when rich men with nothing to do liked to collect antiquities. So it is full of really interesting, yet random, things. Including, some dinosaurs!

This is a plesiosaur, a dinosaur who lived in the water. 

After exploring what we wanted to see in the museum, and taking part in a really interesting free tour of the physics and engineering section, devoted to Lord Kelvin, who taught at Glasgow University and who named absolute zero and developed the Kelvin temperature system, we decided to go visit the cathedral on the other side of the city. 

It is still soot-stained, from when Glasgow was an industrial city. I'm actually glad they haven't cleaned it, because there's something about it that makes it more cemented in time, and you can imagine what the city was like when there were factories everywhere. 

Behind the cathedral is the cemetery, which was constructed to be similar to Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. 

That was followed by a visit to the oldest house in Glasgow, dating from the 1460s

Although our time in Glasgow was short, I really enjoyed it, especially because it was not overrun with tourists. Phil read somewhere that it's the 4th most visited city in the UK, which is interesting because we did not see bus loads of tourists or really very many wandering around. We feel that perhaps if you are staying in Edinburgh, you will pop over to Glasgow just for half a day. 

I'll end with two pictures of Wellington. The first is from our first day in Glasgow, and the second from our second day:

I thought it was just a one time prank, but Phil explained that every time they take the cone off his head, another just gets put back on, and at one time there were seven cones stacked up! I guess it was the horse's turn to wear the cone on the second day!