The flight was relatively short, just 2.5 hours, and with the time change we landed in Glasgow at 10:30am. We dropped off our luggage at the hotel we were staying in, Grasshoppers Hotel. We had thought that at this point in the trip, we would be ready for a real hotel, after doing three airbnbs, and we were right. Plus...I maybe picked this hotel based on the cupcakes and ice cream people spoke about in reviews!
I had brought along a slim guidebook on Scotland from Rick Steves, which had a walking tour of Glasgow in it, so we decided that would be a good way to orient ourselves to Glasgow. What we discovered, after reading the tour, is that Rick doesn't (or didn't, because this book was 6 years old) think too highly of Glasgow and says you only need a few hours there. One stop on the tour was The Lighthouse, where you could take an elevator to the top for a bird's eye view of the city.
In the picture above, you can see our room where we stayed!
Glasgow is very much a city of the industrial revolution - that is when it reached its heyday. It doesn't have the charm of Edinbrugh, but it does have some gorgeous architecture, once you look up above the ground floor shops.
After doing most of the walking tour (we couldn't see the Glasgow School of Art because it had a terrible fire a month ago and much of it was destroyed), I was ready for a nap so we checked into the hotel where I caught up on some sleep and Phil went out to find a local pub.
We had dinner at a Greek/Mediterranean tapas place, and I ended the evening with a cupcake and homemade ice cream from the hotel!
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