Near the backend of BD’s and my trip to Scotland was a visit to Glasgow. We rolled in about 2:00 or 3:00 with no room to check into for 5 or 6 hours… I’m not going to go there though, 7 months later and my seething anger is almost completely dissipated. Don’t they know who I am!!
Yes, well, anyway, we rolled in and I had no predetermined plan for Glasgow. After some scrolling through a few websites and the memory of a beautiful mural we saw on our way to the hotel I found a map of the street murals that Glasgow is famous for. You know, they had three real Banksy’s (there are some fake ones there too I understand) but someone, by mistake, painted over them! They were about 20 years old apparently, so I suspect that time and the elements played a part in them fading and maybe whoever did it didn’t know who Banksy is… I can just see it… Banksy, sitting on a partially ruined brick building wall, a stray dandelion growing out of a crack in the wall, “Don’t they know who I am!!”
So I set out a route for us, making sure that we would end up at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A good walk, a beautiful day, Sunday in the park with all the Glaswegian families, We didn’t find all of the murals I had hoped for but here is what I did find.
Great post, prose, photos! Hit the 3 p’s
Thanks Kim! It’s funny, I found this post back in my archives as I wanted to link to it from the Challenge post and had not actually even published it to public. I probably need to go back and optimize it now but I’m not sure now what I could have been thinking (or more likely I was not thinking!).