I don’t understand air fares. It’s over 3300km from Antalya to Glasgow, and we bought tickets on Coredon for US$92/person. Crazy. Our goal was to get to London, but when we saw that deal, we decided to visit Scotland for the first time.
In the immigration line at the Glasgow airport we ran into friends of friends, Cansu and Yiğit, another childless couple living in Antalya and traveling around. 🙂
I checked the internet and saw that if we hurried we’d make it to the Glasgow Cathedral before they closed that afternoon.
Well, that’s the cathedral, but the actual closing time is two hours earlier than what’s posted online. We walked around the Glasgow Necropolis instead.
This tomb reminded me of the Capilla del Pocito in Tlaxcala.
I must have had Mexico on my mind ’cause this gazebo near our hotel reminded me of the kiosko so common in the center of towns in Mexico.
For our only full day in Glasgow we headed over to the Kelvingrove Art Museum where the highlight — in its own room — is Salvador Dalí’s Christ of Saint John of the Cross. Ferda pointed out that it’s more like Christ coming back to life than being killed.
Sure enough after looking at the painting, we watched a short video where a priest concurred with Ferda’s observation.
I liked this Monet
and this impressively carved elephant tusk.
We stayed longer than we wanted to at the museum ’cause it was raining so hard when we were ready to go. We caught the 1pm organ concert. Here’s the museum building from the outside.
Next stop was the University of Glasgow. Mostly we wanted to look at the buildings, but when it started raining again, we spent some time in the museum, another excellent one, where we learned a bit about the Roman Antonine Wall.
During the next lull in the rain we walked around Glasgow Botantic Gardens.
I’m sure there’s more to see, but that’s all we had time for on this quick visit. Edinburgh’s calling…
