This is one of the best parks at Glasgow .

I have made three trips to the park with several visitors.

From Clarkston its the 3rd station to Pollockshaw West, where you disembark , and walk through an underground passage and reach Pollock Park after a short walk .

We strolled along the path covering over 10,000 steps. Two friends of ours joined my wife and I for this visit.

At the entrance to the park beautiful flowers decorated the way.

The river is very scenic and makes good pictures. It weaves along the path and gave a soothing effect.

As we passed the highland cows we got some good pictures .

We saw a calf close to the fence. It amazed me, how the calf allowed me to pat it. We noticed that the cows were a lot more closer to the fence . There were about 8 calves with about 9 adult ones .

We reached the Pollock House . Oh the spring had sprung up with a flourish of flowers all along the the front portion of the Mansion.

The Pollock House is mini castle bringing back the memory of a lifestyle long since past. This was the home of the Stirling-Maxwells family.

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The House has several rooms for the different sections of the house . It showed how there were a team of servants, from looking after the kitchen and service to the front rooms ., the bedrooms , and the personal grooming of the homeowners .

There is a quaint cafe in the House . Their soup, sandwiches, cakes and coffee are a good break between the long walks.A souvenir shop offers a variety of historic Scottish books and souvenirs on sale .

Here we entered the Museum which has an entry fee of about £6 per person. It is free entry for children with the family membership ( 5yrs old until 17yrs ). Memberships of various category are from £6 to £10 per month. Children under 5yrs are free.

There were paintings , and tapestries. What interested me was the the exhibition of photographs by Martin Parr: Think of Scotland. It featured pictures of day to day activities like people on the beach, postboxes in remote islands, a man drinking a beer near a back door of a pub and many others . The best was the photograph of fairy cakes , and cuts of meat which looked more like paintings. Children were encouraged to write their comments on a book specially kept for this.

On leaving Pollock House we got a departing picture below the arch at the entrance .

We then walked towards the Burrel Collection Museum which reopened recently.

As the path veered to the left we came across a memorial to the police dog . Later we passed an information board explaining the history of the highland cows the grassland and other features .

We reached the Burrel Collection. It had a look of modern architecture. It has a repertoire of artifacts from all over the world. Mr Burrel had collected these at auctions during his travels .

Entry here is free . My grandchildren found a lot of things of interest …one at the entrance where a child can pose behind a standee with a cutout for the child’s face

The display had sculptures, and paintings of great value . An interesting one was a room which showed his personal effects of home …a desk with hidden draws, furnishings and even armour worn by medieval warriors .

On display were paintings done by the Glasgow Boys . Mr Burrel had sponsored these Boys to spend time in Japan.

The time at Burrel Museum proved a delight for my grandchildren as there were interactive exhibits for them. A photo frame for them to take action photos with fancy characters and the child’s face coming in it . The educational ones had art work you could do on a flat glass topped screen where you could draw and paint a picture of a painting . Likewise there many other interactive exhibits .

Obviously actual viewing of the collection would take many hours .

We returned home on that sunny day when the temperature had risen to 28*C .

Often a walk through nature can be very exhilarating and beneficial to good health .

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