{"id":18241,"date":"2015-10-06T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T19:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=18241"},"modified":"2019-04-02T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:59:38","slug":"kelpies-and-a-wheel-following-the-canal-to-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/kelpies-and-a-wheel-following-the-canal-to-glasgow\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelpies and a wheel, following the canal to Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zagan’s lights are blazing\u00a0in competition with the illuminated\u00a0Craigend and Garthamlock water towers across the Glaswegian skyline. This is because he’s hooked up to 240V mains electricity for the first time since we got him, so we’re testing and charging everything. Jay cooked a lovely dinner in the Remoska<\/a>\"\"\u00a0which came with Zagan – we’d never heard of one before but we’re converts. We’ve tried (and failed) to get the satellite TV\u00a0working – found a good signal, but the Network ID and Transport Stream on the Sky HD box remain at NULL and we’re flummoxed (help!). Shortly we’ll be going through the work we have to do tomorrow at Glasgow University, but back to today.<\/p>\n

We slept quite well in the Park and Ride, it was peaceful, but I still get edgy when we free\u00a0camp. We spoke about it this morning, Jay is worried that someone will ask us to move on, I’m worried we’ll be attacked. I’m not fussed about our stuff so much as us. Our things are insured, we’re insured but we aren’t replaceable. Fortunately it rained most of the night, and my rationale believes that baddies don’t go out in the rain. After breakfast we headed off to look at a couple of things on my list of stuff I wanted to see while in Scotland – the Kelpies and the Falkirk Wheel.<\/p>\n

Fortunately they are just a few miles apart, so after another crossing of the Forth Road Bridge, we were soon there. The rain ceased, so we drove around the car park attendant and parked in the slightly further away car park which was free, as opposed to paying \u00a32 (well that’s an ice cream for the future paid for!). We walked back along the canal to the Kelpies<\/a>. If you haven’t heard of them, they’re two giant statues of horses heads to commemorate all the horses that used to work on the canals. At 30m high they are the largest equine sculptures in the world and even on a rainy, dull, grey Tuesday they still looked beautiful.<\/p>\n

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After a while the rain got heavier, so we headed back to Zagan and made tracks to the Falkirk Wheel. We followed the signs rather than our satnav, so once again found ourselves in the free, but slightly further away, coach park. We had a spot of lunch, then headed over to see if it was moving. We’d timed it perfectly as a queue of people were boarding one of the boats, this gave me chance for a very quick look around the visitor’s centre before the action began. As the wheel started to turn, the water jets for the locks around were turned off so all you could hear was the sound of someone playing bagpipes in the car park – the wheel itself was virtually silent.<\/p>\n