Today was more a the new normal day.
We did not get started on the bus until 8:20 am this morning. Our formal tour of Liverpool started with a stop at the 'Beattles Story' museum. This museum consisted of a reconstructed Matthews Street as well as many displays relating to various periods of the Beattles history, from the formation to current.
We also ran into another type of situation. The England 'Labour Party' was having it's convention in Liverpool. The convention center is right across the street from the Beattles Museum so there were lime-yellow coated Bobbies all over the place. This also evidently cause some problems with our hotel in that the hotel we were at was not a hotel that Globus normally use in Liverpool. But all went well. That is, until we were leaving town - the main road out was closed for repair so the bus driver had to figure out a different route.
Our tour was taking us through the 'lakes District' in northern England. Around noon we stopped in the small village of 'Grasmere'. It is in this village that William Wordsworth did much of his writing. We did get to see his grave site behind the little church.
Mid-afternoon we crossed into SCOTLAND and stopped right inside the border in the town of Gretna Green. The history of this place is that the age of majority was lower in Scotland than in England so lots of young people who sneak off to Gretna Green where the blacksmith was able to legally marry them 'over the anvil'. Eventually the age of majority in England was lowered to match that of Scotland so the need stopped. however, it is still a big wedding location.
Eventually we arrived in Glasgow and had a somewhat speedy tour of the city center. It was just at quitting time so the traffic was slow, so it was not really speedy, but it was short - only a few blocks. In doing some family research before we left home, we were aware that one of Judy's ancestors came from the town of 'Bellshill', a suburb of Glasgow. Now that suburb is part of the current city of Glasgow, and we did locate it on a bus map.
This area of southern Scotland is also called the Lowlands. The land reminds me of maybe around Harrisburg or Lancaster - rolling hills, fields of cattle (& sheep).
The weather the last few days has been great - mostly sunny and warm.
Our hotel this evening is at a golf resort abut 20 miles north of Glasgow so we only got to see Glasgow from the bus as we drove through it. This also meant that our dinner was at the hotel as there are no restaurants nearby.
The Wayward Traveler and his tired companions.
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