Day 5 – Glasgow School of Art

The Glasgow School of Art is housed in a number of buildings along Renfrew Street in the centre of Glasgow. The most famous building was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh between 1896 and 1909. The eponymous Mackintosh Building soon became one of the city’s iconic landmarks, of international fame. It is a pioneer of the British Art Nouveau style. It has been badly damaged by fire twice in the last eleven years and it was good to see the building without scaffolding.

The plane from Barra was delayed by around two hours due to low levels of light today, but the plane did arrive in Glasgow unlike the previous day when flights were cancelled due to fog. Even though it was windy at ground level, there was little turbulence higher up.