St Mungo's Cathedral, Riverside Museum and Home

We left our luggage with our very helpful hosts Douglas and Rosemary (who despite their relative youth have had the Kirklee for about 17 years), whilst we took the tour bus again and visited St Mungo’s cathedral (the oldest remaining building in Glasgow), the Necropolis and Provand’s Lordship (the oldest remaining house in Glasgow). The cathedral is massive and very impressive, as are some of the monuments in the Necropolis – and the views of the city and of Tennent’s Brewery at its foot.

Our penultimate trip on the tour bus took us to the Riverside Museum and the Glenlee, a tall ship moored on the Clyde beside the museum. We did not have nearly as much time as we would have liked for the museum, mainly devoted to a great collection of different forms of transport, and the Glenlee so a further visit will be necessary in the future.

The same applies for the other Charles Rennie Mackintosh buildings in the city, of which there are several, as well as Hill House outside the city. We won’t need to do the bus tour again now having a good appreciation of the layout of the city – which is an amazing mix of beautiful old architecture standing cheek by jowl with the most hideous (probably) 60s and 70s buildings. But there is a real heart-beat there making Edinburgh seem beautiful but rather staid by comparison.

Our taxi ride to Glasgow airport and flight back to Bristol went smoothly, as did our drive back to Dorset. The garden looked a bit of a wreck after several very hot and dry days but is now recovering.