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Travel Blogs from Glasgow
Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... out in the Caribbean for a bit to fly to north brazil and go to the amazon first then travel down the coast to Salvador then inland to Brasilia and finally end up in the big bold Rio! Mark is flying to the Caribbean in the next week so we really need to get a proper backpack and some good walking shoes ASAP, shame I know nothing about things like that. Off to do some more research in to what we ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... eyebrows which took up three quarters of her forehead informed me I was in the wrong seat! Which was a shame because I seemed surrounded by decent, chatty folks especially the bloke JIm sitting nesxt to me. Fortunately, the lady whose seat it was kindly offered it to me which I was immensely relieved about when I spied a particularly leery looking gent next to her looking disappointedly in my direction!
It transpired Jim was from Prestwick and ...
A Tourist in Glasgow with Louise
... merchants who made huge fortunes trading tobacco with the American colonies. Most of them lost their wealth during the American Revolution. This particular house was like a palace, and it was apparently typical to build homes like that since they became so wealthy they were like aristocrats. Merchant City Square also contained the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (called GoMA), which ahs the mandate of only showing modern artists who are still ...
Day 8
Left Glasgow this morning and travelled to the home of the Scottish poet Robbie Burns. Not being a poetry fan it was a little lost on us although we did love the gardens and the monument. We are currently on the ship between Scotland and Ireland. It is about the same size as the one that goes to Tassie only difference is the staff ...