Pollok Country Park | Glasgow

 

'The park is Glasgow's largest park and the only Country Park within Glasgow. Its extensive woodlands and gardens provide a quiet sanctuary for both visitors and wildlife. The park is rich in rural history formerly being part of the Old Pollok Estate and ancestral home to the Maxwell Family. The park is also home to the world famous Burrell Collection' 

~ Pollok Country Park

Last Friday, I and my fellow IISMA friends were meeting other Indonesian students in Strathclyde. They are under a small roof called the IndoSoc of the University of Strathclyde. I met quite a lot of new and extraordinary people from the occasion and some of them were planning to visit Pollok in southern Glasgow. And we're finally making our first trip here in Glasgow. 

We were first about to take a bus from the City of Glasgow College bus stop, but there were a few adjustments, and we're finally taking a bus from the Glasgow Central/Queen St. Underground Station. There are so many things I have to learn here about public transportation because I was in the dark yesterday and had no idea that we could take a bus from the subway station. We bought a roundtrip ticket to the Pollokshaws West for GBP2.90 which was very considerably cheap. The bus provided us half an hour of city sightseeing which most likely looked like suburban housing and unmowed wastelands. At Pollokshaws West, we walked about 15 to 20 minutes into the park area. 

Oh, and there's also a subway station called Pollokshaws West, so I guess you could also take the subway to get here. 

tickets🎫🎫

take a look at a very dreamy atmosphere around the park, small path, withered leaves, and wilted grass aroma all around

We marched our feet deeper into the woods until we sniffed our big fellas' scent~

Oh there they are🐄

They are modeling here and there scattered on the sweeping grass meadow, some together, some enjoying 'me time'. Two of them were sitting near the fence on the time we passed by and we managed to say hi <3

take a look at that hairstyle he got, very demure

what a good model he was, wasn't he?

Continuing our path, we came across the Georgian-styled house near the forest that happened to be a private property (I stumbled across other visitors saying that). 

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Going deeper, we found the Pollok House with a spacious avenue entrance with benches and statues, moving up we found a symmetrical parterre garden in front of the house. Right across the property, there was a mossy arch bridge bending over a small rushing river. 

The Pollok House
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The Pollok House

The Pollok House

It was a sunny day by the time we visited the Pollok House, I enjoyed the view so much that I gasped when I saw those greeneries there. Throughout the trip, I took so many deep breaths on every step I made. It was fresh and serene, every part of it was like a sight for sore eyes. What I see, what I breathe, what I do, what I smell, it all affects what sensation I feel there. And I liked it, not in a way that I'm obsessed by it rather more like I was nourished by it. I'll refer to this as 'The Pollok Nourishment'.

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cr. Nala

Highland Cattle

River

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til we meet again,

Sekar