Iain Leitch Photography

The last stop on my trip overseas was a quick two-day stopover in Dublin. It was a very different city compared to the ones in Scotland, there were a lot more people in the streets and it felt very high energy and vibrant.  A nice building on the main street. Another interesting building. Brick buildings along the river. A lot of buildings have clocks at the top. Another building with a clock. Entrance to St Stephen's Green. Public garden at St Stephen's Green.  

Another place I visited was the Isle of Arran. To get there I took a train from Glasgow to Ardrossan, then a ferry from Ardrossan to Brodick, then a bus from Brodick to Lochranza. Lochranza Distillery where I participated in a whisky tasting.  The road leads into the hills. Sheep, a house and hills nothing better than that. Very scenic location for a letter box. More sheep, another house and more hills. Lochranza Castle.  

Recently I took a trip to Scotland and Ireland, where I visited Glasgow, Edinburgh (no photos of there as it rained all day), Stirling, Isle of Arran, and Dublin. Here are the photos from Glasgow.  Red sandstone buildings are a feature in downtown Glasgow.  The same building as the previous photo just, the sunny side instead.  I thought this was a cool "artsy" photo with the angles but the railing and the building corner did not quite line up. A red sandstone church. Squiggly Bridge (the official name) over the river Clyde in Glasgow. Suspension bridge over the river Clyde. I feel like these would be cool corner apartments with lots of light. Classic Scottish scene with a pub on the main floor and flats above. Great city scape of row houses and then a church. The cars ruin it for me though. Kelvingrove Art Gallery The river Kevin with the University of Glasgow in the background.  

The Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG), located in Hamilton, Ontario, is designated a National Historic Site of Canada. I live only an hour and a half away from the RBG but yet I had never been until today. Today I took the trip down to the RBG and was wowed by the gardens. I went to three of the gardens today and each experience was a pleasant one. I started out exploring the Hendrie Park Gardens, which comprises a rose garden, statue garden (closed at the moment due to COVID-19) and a native plant garden among other themes gardens. The first two photos here are showing the rose garden in all its glory with full blooms and beautiful colours. The tall purple flowers seen in both photos are actually a type of onion that is planted among the roses to help them fight disease and pests. Moving on from the rose garden and into the native plant garden, I saw this beautiful yellow flower that I thought was perfect. Adding the overcast day, this made for an amazing photo in my opinion with the righ...

A tour of the city of Matanzas was the second part of the excursion I went on while on holiday. The first part of the excursion is talked about in my post, Cuba Part 2. During the part of the tour, we went to an old pharmacist museum from the 1800s/early 1900s. The first three photos in this post are from the museum. This museum is persevered excellently and looks stunning with all of the original bottles and labels. Right outside of the museum is the main square of the city where the following four photos are from. This city itself is very colourful with many buildings painted blue, orange, yellow, and green. The next part of our tour was to go down to the riverside where there is another square. The remaining photos are from this area. Overall I wish we could have done more of a walking tour of the city but what we saw was still quite beautiful and I had learned a lot.