On Sunday, since our plan to visit the Highlands died with our rental car, we spent the day on the hop on hop off bus, seeing and learning about Glasgow. If you like museums, Glasgow has several that don’t charge admission, and one could easily spend a day doing that. We also checked out some bookstores and other shops and had lunch at the Hard Rock (No 41).
After lunch we visited the cathedral, one of only two medieval cathedrals in Scotland to have survived the Reformation virtually intact. It had many beautiful stained glass windows. This morning we got up early to catch the 7:15 train to Edinburgh. Once there we transferred to a train to London Kings Cross. It was about a half hour late. We arrived around 1:30 and took the Underground to our hotel. Around 2:30 we checked into the same Kensington hotel we stayed at on our first night. We dropped off the bags we took to Scotland then traveled across town to grab the luggage we had left in London. While doing that, we learned something new about the Underground - you don’t have to buy tickets. A gate attendant told us that if each person in your party has a unique international credit card, you just tap it going in and going out and it charges less than buying a paper ticket. If only we had learned that at the beginning of the trip.
By the time we got back it was almost 6 so we had dinner at the hotel and retired for the night.
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