Kelly recommended that I check out the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. The weather forecast said cloudy but no rain so I decided this would be a good day to put on my walking shoes and check out some of the outlying sights. The Botanic Gardens is almost straight west of the city center and a long but pleasant walk. Part of the walk was through Kelvingrove Park. This is a 100 meter path in the park with a 10 meter wide herbaceous border on each side of the path.
Some of the flowers in this herbaceous border.
I got to the Botanic Gardens about 10:00 AM and spent a very pleasant 2 hours strolling around the grounds.
I think this was a flowering apple tree. What a lovely scent.
This is a path along the river.
This is the arboretum.
Flowers in the arboretum.
It was so hot and humid in the arboretum that I thought I was in a jungle.
More flowers.
After I finished touring the Botanic Gardens I walked through Hillhead, a trendy section of Glasgow with a lot of little boutiques and restaurants. I stopped in Martha’s and had a chicken chipotle rice bowl. It was so healthy and so good.
After lunch I walked over to the Riverside Museum. 
This is Glasgow’s transportation museum. It is on the North bank of the River Clyde and one of the exhibits is a restored clipper ship.
The ship is very kid friendly with many activities for the kids to keep them occupied and make them feel like they are part of the ship’s crew. This group of kids were having so much fun swabbing the deck.
The Museum was chock full of many interesting examples of Glasgow’s transportation history. These are all working motorcycles.
For years, Glasgow was one of the world’s leading manufacturers of steam locomotives. This Glasgow manufactured locomotive ran on the South Africa Railroad.
This is a miniature one person car.
If Hertz had rented me this car in Dublin I would have been able to drive it around the narrow roads in Ireland without getting in a wreck and damaging my rental car and a parked car. I should sue Hertz for renting me a standard size vehicle and then expecting me to drive it without incident. What were they thinking?
After I finished touring the Riverside Museum I walked back to city center Glasgow. I was looking for a place to eat diner when I walked by this place.
This is the website for The Buttery.
The owners of The Buttery must be two very strong women with absolutely no body image issues. A couple of you have said that, based on the pictures in the blog of me and the meals I have been eating, I am starting to look a little chunky. I don’t want to carry any extra weight on the Camino and decided that any meal I ordered at The Buttery would involve too many calories and would put too many excess pounds on my already overweight carcass. So I decided to foregoing dinner at The Buttery and drink my dinner instead.
Kelly recommended that I check out a downtown pub called The Counting House.
Great recommendation Kelly.
A Hendricks gin and tonic was 3.70 euros, half what I have been paying at other pubs.
This pub used to be a bank building so it is very open with nice high ceilings and a magnificent skylight.
That’s it for today. I hope everyone had a great Thursday.
Good night from Glasgow.
AbeAndMarkontheCamino 