Grá Le Éirinn (In Love With Ireland)
We’ve gone and done it again: we’ve fallen in love with an entire country. In Portugal and Spain we found an affinity for Americans among [Read More…]
Europe
Glasgow’s Riverside Transportation Museum and the Future of Museum Tech
The Oldest (Known) Bicycle in the World Not all museums in the United Kingdom are the hodge-podge collections we’ve described in previous blogs. At least [Read More…]
The Cathedral Church of Saint Mungo, Glasgow
Not much writing in today’s blog, just “another cathedral”. You’d think we’d get tired of seeing them, but we don’t. This is the Cathedral Church [Read More…]
Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
We’ve observed recently that a few of the British museum’s we’ve visited were hodge-podge collections of art and history (sometimes with a little science thrown [Read More…]
The Glasgow Necropolis
We’ve taken a macabre liking to cemeteries. If you’ve been following our progress through the UK, you’ll remember our blog a few weeks ago about [Read More…]
University of Glasgow
One of the days we spent in Glasgow we took the Glasgow hop-on, hop-off bus (blog coming soon), and we hopped off at the Kelvingrove [Read More…]
Off The Beaten Path: Carlisle, England
Carlisle Cathedral The original plan was to rent a car from York and take a leisurely day-and-a-half drive through the English lake country on our [Read More…]
The Yorkshire and Castle Museums of York, England
We visited two of York’s principle museums while we were there: the Yorkshire Museum and the Castle Museum. We’ve described both museums–particularly the Yorkshire–as a [Read More…]
York and Constantine the Great
A couple of blogs back we glazed over a pretty interesting historical tidbit. The Roman emperor Constantine the Great was crowned (“laurel-wreathed” actually) in what [Read More…]
Three Seductive Bishops of York
As we walked through the York Minster Cathedral, out of the corner of our eye we caught sight of something that made us have a [Read More…]