Historical Glasgow Continued
Day 30 in Scotland, Friday, July 5. Point A Hotel, in the middle of City Center Glasgow. Steps 27852. Coffee from Costa and croissants from Sainsbury’s. Pies. Rode City Hop on Hop off bus to the Glasgow Cathedral. Tomb of Saint Mungo under neath the Cathedral. Provand’s Lordship. Glasgow’s oldest house. Built in 1471 for the Bishop of the City. Mary Queen ofnthe Scots stayed there, but as the tour guide on the bus said “she owned all of Scotland so she probably stayed everywhere.” What an idiot was going through the oldest house at the same pace as myself. There were signs everywhere about not touching the furniture. He says to his wife “well, I touched it” in a stupid singsong voice. Then he made a comment about how “Antiques Roadshow would really like this old stuff”. Embarrassing as I realized he was American. Low ceiling. Necropolis. “A memorial to the merchant patriarchs and contains the remains...