Scotland Adventure - Day 3 — Captain Father John

Today we are on our own. We arrived in Scotland a day early to help get over our jet lag before the start of the tour. Priscilla and I met Mary for breakfast at the hotel. Two of us had haggis. Haggis is the national dish of Scotland. It is composed of the liver, heart and lungs of sheep, minced with mutton suet and oatmeal and seasoned with onion, cayenne pepper and other spices. The mixture is packed into a sheeps stomach and boiled.

The haggis is the brown substance in the lower left corner. It tastes a bit like spicy hash. I have been to restaurants in Asia that specialized in animal organs. It is considered a delicacy. The photo was taken by Mary.

The sight seeing bus made 54 stops over the course of 90 minutes. The narrator on our bus knew a little something about each stop. Who knows how much of it he was making up.

Priscilla and I exited the bus at stop #2 the Necropolis. The Necropolis is a Victorian garden cemetery built on a hill overlooking Glasgow Cathedral. It is the final resting place for over 50,000 souls.

Here is a view of the Glasgow Cathedral.

A view of some of the headstones in the Necropolis. There are many famous people buried here.

William Miller (same name as my uncle) wrote the nursery rhyme We Willie Winkie in 1841. Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown;
Rapping at the window, crying through the lock,
“Are the children in their beds?
Now it’s eight o’clock.”