Above: Glasgow “Cathedral” from the necropolis.
We had most of the day to fill or kill today. We started with a drive into downtown Glasgow which was easy being a Sunday; parking was easy too. We popped into the Cathedral and the necropolis behind.
Interestingly, the Cathedral isn’t technically one at all. It is an honorific title from when it was a Catholic cathedral before the reformation. It is now a Presbyterian church, which doesn’t have bishops or cathedrals.
The necropolis was an advancement of the old practice of burying people in churchyards, which was not too hygienic in times of epidemics or other mass deaths.
Glasgow necropolis.
We popped into a couple of free sights after, namely the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art and thereafter the Provand’s Lordship (and old house for the Church cannon).
In the afternoon, we spent some time at the Riverside Museum (aka Glasgow Museum of Transport) by the Clyde River where a lot of shipbuilding was once centred. It had many interesting cars and ship models, plus a restored tallship called Glenlee (formerly Galatea).
We had time for a very short rest at the hotel before meeting my cousin Janet and her family plus a retired doctor-friend of theirs. They took us to a lovely dinner at a place called Opium in town.