Glasgow Here I Come!

It is amazing the difference 60 miles can make. That is the distance between Edinburgh and Glasgow and you would think that they would be very similar. I knew that Glasgow was more of an industrial town and Edinburgh more of an intellectual city but the differences are amazing.
Both cities have some astounding architecture in the older building but in Glasgow there are few areas with these characteristics there are more rundown neighborhoods. We visited the Celtic Stadium and it was beautiful. The grass was being cut for the game the next day and looking around you would never guess that the unemployment rate in Glasgow is estimated to be at 40% for males.  Yet, when you walk outside and look over the city it becomes apparent. The housing that I saw the most of was "four in a block" that means four family dwellings in one house. Two floors and two seperate residences on each level. There is also an abundance of closed shops as soon as you are a few blocks away from the main shopping district.
While there we also visited some very cool museums. We saw a transportation and an art museum after our tour of the stadium. It was interesting how the transportation museum was in a new building with a very modern design and the art was designed in more of the Victorian age. The museum each had their own flare and were quite interesting. After spending some time in the museums we had two hours to ourselves to walk around the shopping center of Glasgow. It was fun just to be able to walk down the street and see an Apple shop in an old building complete with pillars.

 These are the two oldest cups in football history. They date from before 1900.

 Lael, Me, and Erin at standing just of the Celtic field. See "Celtic" spelled out in the seats behind us along with the man mowing the grass between Lael's and my head?

 A zebra that was at the transportation museum. Did you know that zebras have stripes because a certain type of fly likes to land on solid colors and the stripes confuse it?

The view from just outside of the museum. Can you tell it has been modernised recently. Glasgow is preparing for the Commonwealth Games in 2014. It is where all of the once territories of Britain come to compete in athletic events.

The front of the Art Museum. There are two wings that come off to either side but they would not fit in the picture.

Here is a picture of the Giant Irish Deer. It was massive and it was also in the art museum which was interesting. On the bus ride back to Dalkeith I saw my first large wildlife in Scotland. There were three deer grazing along the side of the road. Sadly they were not the Giant Irish deer.