Glasgow Snow Day
On 29 December 2017, just over 13 months since we moved to Glasgow, we got to experience our first ever Glasgow snow day.
A large snowfall overnight meant a fresh, white blanket of snow awaited us as we woke early to drive our visitors to the airport. After braving the long, slow farewell drive to and from the airport in the snow, we were ready for our snowy adventure.
Our street – beautiful even in the Glasgow Grime, was most stunningly coated in white. The cars (almost) snowed in to the white roads, sets of stairs leading up to stately homes were almost merging into white slippery slopes.
It was the park we wanted to see. Kelvingrove Park is one of my favourite places to while away time on a sunny day – it was clearly just as alluring for my fellow weegies in the snow.
Families, clad in colourful snow gear took sleds down hills that are covered in shirtless teens and BBQs in the summertime. Dogs in their coats sniffed and played through the top layers of powder. Snowmen and women were the third most populous species in the park. It was really just beautiful, and yet again another reminder of the spirit of Glaswegians to make the most of whichever conditions this brilliant city throws at us.
Over the snowy canopy the University looked grand as ever, but we wanted a closer look. Down through the park, we arrived at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The red bricks of it’s distinctive style shining even brighter against the falling snow and white capped turrets. A truly magnificent site and a way of looking at this iconic building that we had not seen before.
Our final stop on our snow day tour was the bridge by Kelvin Hall. Looking over the River Kelvin to the University is one of my most favourite Glaswegian’s vistas. The university has never looked more magical to me than that day, blanketed in snow.
Since that day it has snowed properly again only a handful of times – still 2017/18 has proved to be a much colder winter than the last one we had here.
The snow coats the city in a layer of magic and beauty, and I think makes it seem to the tourists just as special as the locals know it to be.
