Glasgow is sweet!

Went to Glasgow this weekend, and it is a really cool town. Very walkable, lots of cool architecture, nice downtown area (think Faneiul hall, but taller and older buildings). Right at the main square where there are giant monuments and stuff they had a giant crane and you could go bungee jumping. Unfortunately, the line was really long.

Anyways, I am walking around taking pictures like a super-tourist and there is this guy in the main square with blood all over his face and soaking his shirt. He was asking for the police (he didn't speak English) so I called 911 for him (which is 999 here). He had split his head open from above his ear to his eyebrow, it was gross. But we got him to the ambulance and he was fine.

So, the whole reason I came up to Glasgow was for the 'West End Festival', which is actually a collection of all these local festivals in the West End that happen for 3 weeks in June. There was a street festival, Gisbon St., with lots of artists (painters and photographers) and a bunch of save the world boths.

Then I went to the Kelvingrove park Mele, which is a big cultural event with lots of stages with dancing and music, and boths selling clothes and food. Kelvingrove park is this giant hilly park that is on the edge of Glasgow university.

After that I went to La Fete de la Musique, in Ashdown Lane. Ashdown lane is a totally cool little lane with a bunch of bars with beer gardens behind each one. This festival had musicians playing in the bars and on the street, throughout the day. There were a lot of acoutsic indie acts, some jazz, some more traditional Scottish music and at one point, a classical string quartet was playing outside. My favorite was a very awesome acoustic rendition of Michael Jackson's 'Black or White'. So I spent the afternoon having beers with a bunch of musicians as they rotated in and out of sets in all the bars.

All in all, Glasgow is sweet.

Lesson 4 - I just realized that the centerpiece on our table is a lovely vase filled with dried wheat stalks. Or in our household.... a POISON VASE.