The land of Haggis

Sunday 27 May 2012  - In the air again. Och Aye Jimmy

Day 45 and 114 to go

An early start to our day today with us needing to be up and waiting for our cab at 7.30am. We didn’t have time for our cooked brecky so cereal and toast had to suffice. We sorted our account before being driven to the airport.

We checked our bags in with Aer Lingus, thankfully they were light enough to not be charged excess. We wandered the terminal, locating the tax return. We then went and sat in the departures lounge to await our flight.

We were taken by bus to our tiny prop plane. As we boarded we were told our cabin bag was too bag so it was taken from us and put in the hold. At 10am we were in the air and heading to Glasgow only an hour away.

We took the opportunity to get some shut-eye though it was brief. Before we knew it we were descending and landing at Glasgow with a jolt.

Getting through arrivals was quick and painless and we found a city bus to hop on to take us into the centre of town and with walking directions we mad it to our hotel dragging our bags behind us.

We weren’t able to check in so we left our bags and went exploring. The town was alive with shoppers and tourists. We stopped at the tourist bureau collecting pamphlets and bits for our week in Scotland.

We then grabbed lunch and found a bench to sit on in George Square . It was such a beautiful day many of the Scots were out sunning themselves there was lily white skin everywhere.

We continued to wander heading to the riverfront in search of a pub with no luck so we walked back towards our hotel and the pub next door. We had a drink while reading up on some of the places to visit and at 2pm we returned to our hotel and checked in.

When we got to our room it was slightly ruffled with a dirty teacup and the bed looked like someone had been sitting on it so we had it remade while we continued to read up on what to see and do.

Paul then found that the door didn’t close and could be pushed open from outside. So it was back downstairs to have that sorted which took some time. So we had to hang out in the room. I surfed the net and then we booked some accommodation for the next few days.

When the door was finally fixed we went out again. We stopped at a pub for a cider. The prices for food and drink are considerably cheaper.

After our pint we then wandered on again finding another pub where we sat and had dinner before returning to the hotel. 

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