After leaving Dundee we took the train to another famous city on a river, Glasgow. Also following our nautical theme we visited the Burrell Collection, which is housed in its award winning building in 360 acres of “Pollock Estate” just outside Glasgow. Here there were nearly 9,000 works of art from ancient Egypt and all over the world dating right up to the 20^th century.  Sir William Burrell was a shipping magnet and made a huge fortune. His passion was collecting artifacts as diverse as oriental ceramics, gothic art textiles arms and armour. Before he died in 1958 he gave everything to the City of Glasgow to form the exhibition.  By 1983 a specially commissioned building had been constructed and the public were given free access. Included are a café, restaurant, lecture theatre, museum shop and free guided tours.  We thoroughly enjoyed the collection, which even on a quick visit took several hours to walk round

We flew back down to London on a drab, cold January day.