150

We finally got around to visiting the exhibition at Kelvingrove celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Glasgow's favourite sons - the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style has been running since the end of March, and finishes this coming Tuesday, so we were glad to finally fit it in. Very interesting - a mix of familiar and unfamiliar, with some context to the times and his contemporaries.

The photo is of one of his high backed chairs; this one from 1900 was from Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms.
[ I really shouldn't be blipping this, as I really shouldn't have taken it - there were some 'no photography' signs around the exhibition, but this was pretty much the first thing you see as you enter, and someone else had photographed it just before me. No mention was made of the no photos rule when we purchased the ticket (as there had been when we were at the Rip It Up exhibition in Edinburgh last month), or indeed on the ticket itself; it was only in the next gallery that I spotted a sign. So this was the only photo I took, and once the deed was done there seemed no point in deleting it, so here it is! ]

Afterwards, we went into the Merchant City for a wander around - we knew there was lots going on with the European Championships still going on. There were lots of stalls, eating/drinking options, and street performances.  See Extra collage.

Finally, a meal in Princes Square in the evening.
All in all, a grand day out!