Friday, September 6, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland
Due to unexpected storms, the captain decides to omit the Holyhead stop and substitute Glasglow. Although we passengers took a vote against this idea, we rode along with the captain to Glasglow!
Glasgow
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City and council area
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In order from top-left: night view of the SEC Armadillo and River Clyde; the Clyde Arc bridge; George Square with Glasgow City Chambers in the background; the main building of the University of Glasgow; Glasgow Harbor; Pacific Quay area, home of BBC Scotland and the Glasgow Science Center.
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 Coat of arms |
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, and the third most populous city in the United Kingdom, as of the 2017 estimated city population of 621,020. Historically part of Lanarkshire, the city now forms the Glasgow City council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland; the local authority is Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands. It is the fifth most visited city in the UK.
Inhabitants of the city are referred to formally as "Glaswegians" or "Weegies." Glasgow is also known for the Glasgow patter, a distinct dialect of the Scots language that is noted for being difficult to understand by those from outside the city.
Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Scotland, and tenth largest by tonnage in Britain. Expanding from the medieval bishopric and royal burgh, and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow in the fifteenth century, it became a major center of the Scottish Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. From the eighteenth century onward, the city also grew as one of Great Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with North America and the West Indies.
With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the population and economy of Glasgow and the surrounding region expanded rapidly to become one of the world's preeminent centers of chemicals, textiles and engineering; most notably in the shipbuilding and marine engineering industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was the "Second City of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era and Edwardian period, although many cities argue the title was theirs.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Glasgow's population grew rapidly, reaching a peak of 1,127,825 people in 1938. Comprehensive urban renewal projects in the 1960s resulted in large-scale relocation of people to designated new towns, such as Cumbernauld, Livingston, East Kilbride, and peripheral suburbs, followed by successive boundary changes. This process reduced the population of the City of Glasgow council area to an estimated 615,070, with 1,209,143 people living in the Greater Glasgow urban area. The wider metropolitan area is home to over 1,800,000 people, equating to around 33% of Scotland's population. The city has one of the highest densities of any locality in Scotland at 4,023/km2.
Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the first European Championships in 2018; and is also well known in the sporting world for football (particularly the Old Firm rivalry between Celtic and Rangers), rugby, athletics, tennis, golf and swimming.
Unfortunately Larry was trying to do too many things in a short time, we lost all are pictures taken today in Glasgow. However, again at the request of members of Diane's COR quilt group, we took pictures at the buffet last evening:
Grilled lobster!
More fresh seafood.
Cheese table; all but one was great to our pallets.
Deserts.
On our way this evening to Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belfast is where the Titanic was made at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
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