29/09/19 - Glasgow City Walk - Kelvingrove Park and Three Judges

Distance - 4 miles
Geocaches - 3
Walk Inspiration - 40 Town and Country Walks in Glasgow, Walk 1

A Sunday morning walk, where we have to be careful to avoid the detritus from a big Saturday in a Party City.    Fortunately, I had a guide for when I was glued to the GPS, shouting "watch where your stepping".   Glasgow has come down with some sort of virus.

Not that navigation is an issue in the City.   Its a grid system, with steep side roads that will have you longing to re-watch Bullitt to call out the San Franciscan land marks.

The Sentiment from Last Nights Pub Blog.

Once at Charing Cross, a bridge takes you to the leafier suburbs, with fine Georgian houses.   A direct route through Kelvingrove Park and a meeting with the Distinguished Gentlemen's Motorcycle Club.  Think men with fine clothes, waxy mustaches and classic Triumphs.

Architecturally, we have the University Tower and a couple of Art Museums.

Fountain in Kelvingrove Park

University Tower

Museum

A simple walk - and as its gone 12pm, time for refreshment.

Mrs M spots the Three Judges from over the road and has a pointless question - "we're not going in there are we?"

The Distinguished Gentlemen are Riding on By.  We're going in.

This is a proper locals/blokes pub.   Mrs M asks me if its even got a ladies toilet.   I cannot confirm, but I only hope that if it has, it is bigger than the gents.

A collection of silent men sit at the bar with newspaper.   I assume they are all called Tony or Terry as their monogrammed pint pots have a big T.

The landlady hasn't got around to putting the pump clips on but assures me the closest thing she has to a Boring Brown Bitter is a Spire Ale from Stonehenge Brewery.   Yep, after last night visits to Cheshire and Cambridgeshire, I'm now imbibing from Wiltshire. 

I really thought there would be more locALE brews to try.   Pub 5 and only one Scottish Brewery found.

For the sake of being mocked, Doom Bar Branded glasses always reversed.

Onward with the walk and we have a destination in mind.   The Still Game Matinee performance is 2:30pm.

End of an Era - The Final Still Game Show