It was a pretty short ride today from Stirling to Glasgow; the bikes hardly had time to warm up with only 30 miles.

Today, we have another walking tour with the same company. We walked around a lot of the old parts of Glasgow, learnt of its history, and how it progressed from a single street village to a thriving industrial city to what it is today.

Here’s a few photos from around Glasgow.

St. Mungo – Saint of Glasgow died in the 6th century and is attributed with a number of miracles of which are now represented by a number symbols, the robin, a bell, a tree and a fish.

You see lots of references around the city to these symbols whether that’s on buildings or bus stops.

There is also a beautiful mural of a modern day depictions of St Mungo as an older man, and St Mungo as a child – note the robin in both.

Interesting side note on these – the artist, Smug, is an Australian artist who has also painted at least one of the painted Grain Silos in Australia – the one in aware of is in Dimboola, Victoria.

I am also competing in TeamStrange’s 2023 Grand Tour – “Wheels on Walls”. So I brought my rally flag over, but I haven’t seem any murals that fit the bill until now.

One that meets the criteria and one … while it has a wheel isn’t really wheeled transport … I may be able to clain it as a wildcard.

On our way around the city loop on the tourist bus we jumped off at the Riverside Museum as recoomeded by our walking guide. And rightly so.! This is an awesome contemporary museum with all sorts of fascinating stuff, from recreation streets and shops from the 1800s to the 1980s, a wide range of transport from push-bikes, trams, trains, a cars, it just went on.

This won the European Museum of the Year in 2013. Highly recommended.!

I only mentioned a few days ago about Ewan and Charlie’s Long Way Down trip and here in the museum is Ewan’s bikes from the first two trips on the wall of motorcycles.

Again more links…!

While we didn’t do many kilometres today, we did make up for it with nearly 17,000 steps.