Art, vegan food and stormy skies in Glasgow

I arrived home yesterday after a week away: three days in Glasgow before a cross-country train journey to my mum's in Yorkshire for the Easter weekend.

Glasgow is Thomas's home town, so I have an excellent tour guide on hand. We had two lovely evenings with his family and spent our days visiting galleries, eating all of the vegan food, and dodging rain and snow storms (it seems strange to think now, when I've spent all morning out in the garden, but it was bloody freezing last week!).

Glasgow is pretty hard to beat when it comes to vegan food: I missed the amazing burgers at The 13th Note on this trip, but we made sure to eat at Mono, The 78, and Stereo, all part of the same chain of vegan bar/restaurants (with Mono and Stereo also doubling up as gig venues). I was particularly taken with The 78, a few minutes walk from the Victorian splendour of Kelvingrove Museum, which has the feel of a country pub in the middle of the city.

The weather meant that we did rather less wandering around and rather more hiding in art galleries. The Hunterian Gallery at Glasgow University currently has an excellent exhibition about history of printing, including examples of many very early printed books - called Incunables - from around Europe. We also enjoyed the Alisdair Gray exhibition at GOMA (where this great neon installation can also be found) while Thomas took advantage of the kids art room to sketch a not-so-flattering picture of yours truly!

Glasgow is also home to Elise, who I met for tea and cake (and being a very poor blogger, completely failing to take photographs of the amazing interior at Cup).

On my final morning it brightened up a bit so we were able to take a relaxed walk through the city centre, snapping away at the huge murals that grace the sides of buildings in the Merchant City area. I love Glasgow, and would heartily recommend a visit to anyone looking for their next weekend break destination. Just make sure you wrap up warm!