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Day 18: On to Glasgow, Scotland

The journey begins in London, England. We then proceed west through Southern England before crossing into Wales. The religion of England and Wales is Protestantism and the currency is the pound sterling.

We then take a boat west to enter Ireland. Ireland is a very independent nation where the main religion is Roman Catholicism. Their currency in Ireland is the EuroDollar. We travel through Ireland, including their capital city of Dublin.

We proceed north crossing into Northern Ireland, an important part of the United Kingdom where the primary religion is Protestantism and their currency is that of the United Kingdom which is the pound sterling.

We then travel by boat east to the Island of Great Britain (which is the countries of England, Wales and Scotland) back into England before proceeding north to Scotland. The religion in Scotland is Protestantism and their currency is the pound sterling.

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It took us only 30 minutes to travel from England north to Scotland where we first hit the little village of Gretna Green where we stopped for the lieu and to shop. But what a beautiful little village!

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Next, we continued on to the city of Glasgow, a city known for their strong residents with strong opinions...as shown by this statue with the orange cup on top, that of King Wellington.

Gretna Green

City of Glasgow

What an incredibly beautiful cathedral! It was opened in 1197, first as a Catholic cathedral and then later switched to the Church of Scotland which is a branch of the Presbyterian or Protestant Christians.

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The Falkirk Wheel

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Glasgow

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Glasgow Cathedral

This was a superb evening of great Swiss foods, housing, even crimes! Our Irish good and entertainment was fantastic!

Templars Rest Dinner & Show

Gretna Green

The Falkirk Wheel

The device is the world's only rotating boat lift. (Three photos are above.) The two canals are the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Union Canal. It is to link two canals, one much higher on the land tha It opened in 2002.

In this video, we started at the bottom. Our boat is being lifted to reach the canal at the top while the boat that entered the wheel is lowering to join the canal at the bottom.

In this short video, our "gondola" has reached the canal at the top, so we are departing from the wheel and proceeding along the canal.

Before I had the chance to even learn what the Falkirk Wheel is let alone ride it, I first had a quick lite lunch. Of course, I also found some great ice cream!

Next, we drove up to experience The Falkirk Wheel, a device of which I've never heard or saw, but it was an incredible part of technology to so.

Our "gondola" rotating and reaching the top canal...we then leave the wheel by merely going straight forward onto the canal.

When we reacg the Union Canal which is the one at the top, we proceed through a tunnel at which point we will turn-around to return to the Wheel and go down.

After we turned around, we sailed back to the Wheel so we could enter the top portion and rotate so that we could exit on the Forth and Clyde Canal.

But this time, a second gondola joined us. When the Kirkland Wheel rotated, they departed first onto the Florth and Clyde Canal.

The 2nd boat then went through another loch to lower it to the next canal.

What an incredible invention! And to think I have never heard of this great device. Scotland is known for their many canals and hence also well known for their lochs to raise and lower gondolas from canal to canal.