Day 2 - Glasgow to Stirling

Loved my Virgin Trains trip to Glasgow. The track runs by the sea north of Lancaster and then through the Lake District on to Gretna Green.

Argyle Street and Glasgow Central Station was elegant and seedy in equal measure when I arrived last night and we both loved the rich wool tartan on the floors of our hotel which was just around the corner from the station.

We set out today to walk to the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery so that we could enjoy the red sandstone Glaswegian architecture and found we just wanted to absorb the museum architecture itself, overlooked by the University of Glasgow, and enjoy our coffee (sorry Wendy I meant our tea) before we circuited the individual galleries and the Rennie MacIntosh room.

I was taken by the excellent work of Pringle, a Glaswegian spectacle maker, painting at the same time as Van Gogh and Wendy loved Sophy Cave's  'Floating Heads' exhibition.

We both spent some time absorbing the information and paintings on the expulsion of the highland crofters and met up for the daily lunchtime organ recital

in the entrance hall before collecting our car 

and on to the Falkirk Wheel outside Stirling.

Wendy had researched this amazing structure and continued to gather engineering details from the canal staff. Andy Scott's Kelpies was our next stop... 'art? neigh!' Wendy has just told me was the Guardian's verdict, but I don't think so... love Wendy's photo!

Here we are at the end of the day, enjoying our glass of McGuigan's and the last of the daffodils.

In case the "arr-arr" in the title is confusing it is the way the call of a puffin is described in the Larousse "Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland".