Kelvin Walkway

We decided to go on another walk today. Mike had to go over to the University of Glasgow to check out a book and I had heard of a lovely walk that we could take that follows the River Kelvin through the Northwest side of the city. So, 2.25 miles later Mike was in the library and I was poking around the Kelvingrove Museum. They won't even let me step foot in the University libraries since I don't have a student ID card. But, the musuem exhibit was on how they restore paintings and different artists techniques, etc. and it was very interesting.
Then we went on our walk. It was very beautiful, but as we had already walked the 2.25 miles to get to the start of the walkway, we didn't finish the 13 km hike that encompasses the entire walk. Instead we walked along the path until we came upon the Botanical Gardens. There wasn't a whole lot in bloom out and about, but they were still some parts that were amazing. There is a path that you can take that has different flower beds that are categorized by centuries. We didn't wander down that path today, but decided that we would come back on a day that we had more energy. (Or a day that we took the bus or underground to get there, and had not walked 5 miles before we got there.) We did go through the greenhouse though. The flowers were amazing, even if I could only pick out Impatients and Orchids. They even had an area all for seaweed and a room dediced to plants that countries harvest, such as coffee, cocoa, gum, and even a tree that is used in laxatives.
At the end of the day we walked about 10 miles though (we had a side trip to a bar recommended in our Best of Scotland Book, Bar 10 -- it wasn't all that spectacular). The weather was beautiful however, and by the time it got dark (at 5:00 PM !!) we were certainly ready to go home for a rest.