Night time scene in George Square, Glasgow, Scotland.
We woke up to another dark, grey, wet day in Edinburgh and caught the 9:00a train to Glasgow. It was an hour train ride to Glasgow and the train was pretty crowded for an early Sunday morning.
We had booked a room at the Euro Hostel in Glasgow and Chelsea navigated us to there from the train station without incident. Since, booking the Glasgow lodging was a minor pain in the rear we had decided not to go out and explore the city until we had reserved train tickets and lodging for the next night. Advance tickets on the train are much cheaper than if you wait until the day of travel. But, you have to purchase prior to 6:00p the day before. We hung out at the hostel until the bar opened at 12:30p so we could get free WiFi.
We finally got out to explore the city about 2:00p and decided to catch one of the hop-on/hop-off tour buses to give us a quick overview of the city. We caught the bus at 3:00p from Georges' Square and Chelsea wanted to sit in the top - open air section of the bus. It was a good tour, we stayed on the bus the whole circuit (a bit over an hour) and were frozen when we got back to Georges' Square.
Glasgow has a whole different feel than Edinburgh - more of a working city than a just tourist attractions. We both commented on how we wish we had more time to explore Glasgow - one of the downfalls of booking rail and lodging for the next day before we got out and explored.
After the tour we joined the masses of people that were taking in the Christmas Fair and downtown shopping areas and walked a good bit of the pedistrian section (Buchanon St) amongest all the High Stree shops. We were looking for somewhere for a good dinner, but couldn't find anything that suited our fancy. We didn't want American chain restaurant food, but ended up at TGI Friday's! The service was slow and the food medicore, but at least it was a warm place to set and enjoy the comforts.
After dinner we walked back to the hostel and caught up on emails. By that time it was nearly midnight and we hit the hay as tomorrow is an another "early" morning for the train to Telford.
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