Sunday, October 9, 2011

Split Pea Soup Flavoured Museums

The Riverside Museum (Museum of Transport), the newest museum in Glasgow opened about a month ago and I have to say it's walls are very minty.
Aggh! don't put cars on shelves! That's where the books go. I have no idea what they were thinking when they did this. It's kinda unnerving to walk under 3 stories of cars but more importantly, from the ground you can't really see them at all.

That being said, the building does look pretty cool from some angles...


Plus a permanent tall ship outside in the River Clyde doesn't hurt either.

I just realized that these are the first pictures of Glasgow I've put online. On one hand, this is sad because the city is not done justice by this one very bold (yet slightly tragic) building, on the other hand, some things aren't meant to be seen merely on a computer screen and I don't want to diminish the appeal of travel since sometimes vast amounts of pictures spoil the adventure of travel (Imagine seeing the Taj Mahal or Great Pyramids for the first time in person having only heard descriptions but having never seen a picture.. it would be unimaginably amazing!) So that's kinda been my philosophy for the last few weeks; if something is amazing I stop myself from taking a picture (yeah.. I know you kind of end up on the loosing end of this, Sorry). Spoilers. Hope you enjoyed one of the locations in Glasgow that can be done justice by pictures.

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