I woke up this morning – the first day of my annual leave – with a sore throat and headache. I’m still feeling miserable from the EU referendum results. On top of that someone reminded me that it’s six months to Christmas. Whenever I’m feeling run down I like to fill my head with wanderlust, so I headed over to the GoEuro twitter and saw they are running a travel inspiration competition.

#BloggerCompetiton! Win £500 with GoEuro More details can be found here https://t.co/kgyNs8vbLD #Prize #Travel #FridayFeeling

— Omio (@OmioGlobal) June 24, 2016

Well how could I resist?

Glasgow

I first became interested in Glasgow a few years ago when I stumbled upon Some Recent Attacks by James Kelman in a local secondhand bookshop. I read about Glasgow being the European Capital of Culture in 1990 and it’s growth since. Handily the book fitted in quite nicely with a college project I was doing at the time so I was pretty thankful that I found it.

My dream trip (food and art tour)

Hotel
I’ll start of by saying I’m a huge fan of comfort so I’d love to stay in CitizenM. Normally I’d stay in a budget hotel but as I’m describing my dream trip, I’m going to splash out!

Museums
I just cannot go away without spending at least half my time in museums and galleries. I’m particularly excited by Centre for Contemporary Arts, Tramway and Gallery of Modern Art. Also, as a bit of a museum nerd, I wouldn’t be able to resist a visit to Glasgow Museums Resource Centre. I highly recommend researching before you plan any museum trip to find out about behind the scenes tours and events. GMRC have an events database with details of everything they offer events.glasgowlife.org.uk

I also hope to spend a day at House for an Art Lover and take part in an art class.

Street Art
Check out Glasgow’s street art. The council even created a City Centre Mural Trail.

Botanic gardens
One of my favorite past-times is going to gardens and having cream tea (you can take the girl out of the Westcountry but not the Westcountry out of the girl!) I do love a good garden and Glasgow Botanic Gardens looks gorgeous.

Food

Glasgow has a bunch of vegetarian-friendly food places and my mouth waters just thinking about them. I will definitely have to visit the 78 and Mono. The Mono menu looks amazing (I love Seitan).

I’ll also be visiting Ushas.