Glasgow Day 2

Wednesday, 9th June 2021

We woke up much more energetic after a very good night's sleep. Although our accommodation is in a main street, the bedroom faces the back to Ramshorn Graveyard. I like graveyards and cemeteries because they make for very quiet neighbours!

The weather has turned into the typical Glaswegian weather: cold and wet. We were going to get showers today!

We did woke up early though so we decided to go up the High Street again and visit Glasgow Cathedral.

Glasgow Cathedral: 
Again, a contactless contribution like in Carlisle but in Scotland the minimum contribution is £5.

Glasgow Cathedral is the oldest building in Glasgow. The first stone cathedral was constructed over St Mungo's burial place and consecrated in 1136. St Mungo (late 6th century) is the patron saint of Glasgow.

View of the Cathedral from Church Lane (entrance of the Necropolis).

As we walked south from the cathedral, on the High Street, we came across The Pizza Machine. A vending machine for pizzas. What the hell?!? A pizza in 3 minutes probably sounds good at 3am when you are starving and no shops are open however, it sounds expensive at £9 for the crap that probably comes out of it...

Looking for somewhere to have breakfast, we came across Muffin Break at St. Enoch Shopping Centre. They have a variety of muffins and they are delicious!

One of my main reasons to come to Glasgow was to visit The Mackintosh House, an accurate reconstitution of the house of Charles Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald, two major figures of the Art Nouveau movement in Scotland. It was unfortunately closed. However, I did find a last minute replacement: House for an Art Lover.

We took the subway to Dumbreck Road, got pretty wet walking on the rain from the station to the house and finally arrived at our destination 30 min later.

House for an Art Lover:

Before we could contemplate any visits, we had to warm up and dry up a bit. So we sat at the house's café and had a tea. The café was full of people. Glaswegians were clearly making the most of the lifting of restrictions to meet family and friends.

In 1901 Mackintosh entered a German magazine competition to design a 'Art Lovers House'. Although his entry was disqualified on the grounds of a technical breach of the rules and late submission of some drawings, the design impressed the judges. In 1989 the house left the paper and was finally constructed by a Mackintosh fan. It took 7 years to built as Mackintosh didn't leave construction guidelines and engineering and construction methods had to be researched.

The outside:

The inside:

Oval Room

Oval Room

Oval Room

Main Hall

Music Room

Music Room

Music Room

Music Room

Stained glass on the internal doors.

Stained glass on the internal doors.

Stained glass on the internal doors.

The rain today was steady. It wasn't pouring but it wasn't stopping. We had had enough of it so we headed back to our accommodation. 

I had no wish to get back onto the rain so we bought Asian dinner across the street from our accommodation at Oaka and had it in the room.