So we begin our final leg of our visit to Scotland - our trip to Glasgow!! Yesterday was perfect, today, rain and fog!!! This last part of the scotland leg is around 3hrs long and once again travelling through some beautiful countryside.
We travelled almost exactly the same route that we travelled from Edinburgh to Inverness but we turned off and headed for Glasgow instead - journey seemed way shorter.
We finally got into Glasgow and the first thing that grabbed our attention could only be described as a mirror ball mermaid or something that resembled what you would see on the front of a ship - it was so ugly and on the opposite seemed to be a whole complex of what may have been council flats, everything just looked out of place. We finally made it to the hotel where we dropped our gear off, extremely noticeable was the lack of Scottish people and high majority of either eastern European or Indian staff and I am not being racist but it was extremely difficult to actually get them to do anything to help with enquiries but I digress!!
So we dropped the gear off and it was time to take the rental back - around 1300 miles we had covered so we did well, once again we discovered at Hertz a high majority of eastern European people working there. So Hertz called us a cab to take us back to the city so that we could get our bearings and grab some lunch.
Our cab driver was extremely helpful who on the trip acted almost like a tour guide and it was once we were back in the city we realized our hotel was probably a 5 min walk away from the city centre of Glasgow - bonus!! So our cab driver dropped us off at a wetherspoon's pub which is an extremely large chain of pubs which has an astonishing selection of beers but all the same food menu for ridiculously low prices. This pub was based in an old bank and it was called the money changer.
After lunch , we had a wander around the city centre and then the rain came again so it was probably time to go back to the hotel and actually check in.
After checking in and getting changed we decided to go for another wander of the city and find our bearings and places to see.
Glasgow is a depressing place and it wasn't the weather. Homeless people, drug dealers and just the general vibe of the city was depressing and so far it has been the only place that we have visited where both of us just could not wait to leave and this was just on our first day.
After wandering the city aimlessly, it was getting late and one of the euro
matches was on so we thought an earlier dinner will at least get us off the streets before the end of the football. Sean did some research into glasgow's number 1 pub - which just happened to be irish!! Once again standard pub food with absolutely no veggies - I was even getting depressed about this. The pub itself was pretty cool it had different levels and it looked like you were in a tree with the canopy of the forest just above our heads. After dinner we decided it was time to go home - we just wanted to be off the streets of Glasgow.