Heids!

Can't resist them. There's no doubt hundreds of shots on here of them too, but there's nothing that shows up the contrast between contemporary and traditional here in the Kelvingrove quite like these. It shouldn't work, but it does.

We walked here from the Riverside Museum (Samantha and I walked, Euan dragged his knuckles and whined about how far we were making him walk) after taking the subway down to Govan for the ferry across the Clyde to the museum. Hopefully as the season progresses they'll streamline their boarding system as it took 10 minutes for 4 adults and 3 kids to be issued tickets for a journey that took all of 3 minutes.

First time visit to the newly relocated Transport Museum and whilst the architecture looks fantastic from the outside I'm not convinced by the puss green colour they've painted the whole interior with. I think I'll reserve judgement on the place until I can wander around quietly without being run down by prams and buggies (Easter holidays + free museum = big playschool). I would've also thought that the wrong spelling of 'Chrysler' (with the letter 'R' missing) might've been picked up a year after the building opened too. Quite liked the old photographers studio in the recreated street though.

The Kelvingrove was equally mobbed but spent a good while wandering around looking in more depth at the exhibits than we've done before. I guess that's one of the things that make the place so brilliant, and possibly why it felt so different from the Riverside museum; there's an enough of a wow factor for all ages as soon as you walk in the place (we'll forgive the organ rendition of Moon River this time) and on previous visits with the much younger kids they still had loads to do. This time, with just Euan, we spent a lot more time reading more about the exhibits and feeling that we left having all learned something new - I mean, did you know that the cute bit freaky Duck-billed Platypus was one of the most deadly animals on the planet and it's venom could easily kill a small dog? No, neither did we.