Glasgow
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April 24 Glasgow to Glencoe
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We leave our hotel in a flurry of German giants who say they are off booze for the next week because they have sampled all the scotch in Glasgow. A jovial fellow from Arnold Clark car rental picks us up… Continue reading
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April 23 Glasgow
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Our last day in Glasgow, a city that easily opens itself in little moments and grand displays to strangers and offers its history and ongoing reformation to strangers like ourselves, we wake and eat a brunch of eggs benedict and… Continue reading
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April 22 Glasgow
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We board the tube for The Huntarian Museum and Mackintosh House on the grounds of Glasgow University, getting to them just before they open at 10 AM. The house is where he and his wife lived for about 10 years… Continue reading
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April 21 Glasgow
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Glasgow is not London but it’s like a smaller, earlier version of London. How do we think of it? Strangely: like John Knox’s passionate, puritanical spirit leavened London’s wilder culture … reformed it (all puns intended) … but gave it… Continue reading
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April 19-20 London to Glasgow
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Our last day in London turns out to be somewhat anticlimactic because we have not fully planned our trip to Scotland: what to see and where to eat and how, exactly, to get to each place during the remainder of… Continue reading
Two Tramps 