Imagine my excitement when we drove into Glasgow this morning and one of the first sites I saw was a blue police call box. After all, David Tennant, the 10th Doctor in the Dr. Who television series did grow up just outside of Glasgow. What better place for the Doctor to have parked his T.A.R.D.I.S. But alas, I knocked on the door and not Doctor, no David Tennant, no one. Just a police call box, but how much fun to get Matthew to take my picture next to it with me wearing my shirt with a picture of a TARDIS on the front with the caption "You never forget your first Doctor."
From there we walked a few blocks to what is called the Glasgow Cathedral, although it is now a Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) Church, which technically does not have cathedrals. It was built in the 13th century and is one of only a few to escape destruction during the Scottish reformation.
It is built on the original site of the chapel built by the city's founder St. Mungo in the 6th St. Mungo's remains are in below the alter shown in this picture. The alter is one level below the ground level of the church, under the location of the original high alter for the Church.
We also visited Provand's Lordship, the oldest surviving house in Glasgow, built in 1471. In 1566 century, Mary, Queen of Scots stayed here with her husband Lord Darneley while he recuperated from a serious illness.
We also stumbled into one of the halls for Strathclyde University that we thought was a church (originally was a church). The room was set for students to take their exams. Matthew commented that it looked like a sceen from Harry Potter (it looked like the hall at Hogworths).
From there we went to the Barras, the open air market (flea market in US terms) in downtown, the called it a day. Glasgow had so much more than we expected to find.
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