Electric Gardens
Take a walk round Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens as you’ve never seen them before. Electric Gardens is the West End Festival’s first winter venture and it’s on till 15th February (follow… Read more Electric Gardens →
Doors Open in Govan
Last weekend saw Glasgow’s Doors Open Day and we headed for Govan which is on the south bank of the Clyde. It was a lovely sunny day, so the views back across to the… Read more Doors Open in Govan →
Sculpture Court
Hunterian Art Gallery Sculpture Court, University of Glasgow.
A walk in the Gorbals
If people outside Glasgow know anything about the Gorbals, they probably associate it with slums and street gangs, thanks to the book No mean city (1935) by H. Kingsley Long… Read more A walk in the Gorbals →
A weekend without rain!
In honour of a weekend of glorious weather, I’m taking a break from my holiday diary to add some pictures of Scotland basking under blue skies. It doesn’t happen often… Read more A weekend without rain! →
Glasgow School of Art – mourning the Mack
Originally posted on Adventures of a Retired Librarian:
Mackintosh Building 22nd May 2014 This is not quite the post I meant to write, and for a few days I wasn’t…
Scottish Snapshots: Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Scottish Snapshots is a series of short posts about places I visited in 2013 but didn’t write about at the time Wandering round Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens is something of a Boxing… Read more Scottish Snapshots: Glasgow Botanic Gardens →
To the Lighthouse
Nothing to do with Virginia Woolf or the sea – Glasgow’s Lighthouse is a Charles Rennie Mackintosh building that used to be part of the Glasgow Herald‘s printing offices until they… Read more To the Lighthouse →
Celtic Connections 2014
Not strictly travel, but we had such a great time at Celtic Connections this year that I felt I had to document it. We were there for the opening night… Read more Celtic Connections 2014 →
The People’s Palace
The People’s Palace is Glasgow’s social history museum. My latest visit was with Glasgow Women’s Library’s Seeing Things project – although I’ve been many times before, it was interesting to… Read more The People’s Palace →
Glenlee: Glasgow’s Tall Ship
Glasgow’s Tall Ship, Glenlee, is berthed outside the Riverside Museum. Both are free, and make a great day out – especially when it’s bright and sunny as it was last… Read more Glenlee: Glasgow’s Tall Ship →
2013: the best bits
Annual Review 2013 2013 was my first year of retirement so you would think that I would have had more time for blogging. Not so! I’m shocked to find that… Read more 2013: the best bits →
The Glasgow Gallivanter 