Dundee winter walk in the sunshine

Hello Hello Hivians

Today we are visiting the city of Dundee in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

All these pictures are taken with my smartphone camera. I did take lots of pictures with my camera but those are on my memory card and are for another day!

Wrap up warm and let's go!

Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland with a population of around 150k.

It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea.

We though are just having a wee wander along some streets for our walk.

When the sky is blue, the older buildings shine with beauty.

We tend to forget the history, but these buildings are older than any human.

Do they make buildings to last anymore? I am not so sure!

I love the triangular look of that picture, it does remind me of New York.

Can you guess what that tram car is used for?
Answer at the bottom!

So we are in the centre of Dundee and the beautiful building that you are about to see is The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum

Dundee showing the River Tay and the museum in the city centre. Screenshot from my pinmapple account.

It is quite a magnificent building.

It was built in the Gothic style.

It has turrets, round windows the whole shabang!

Admission should you wish to go is free.

There are actually 8 galleries inside the art museum.

Outside the museum is a character!

Oor Wullie! There he is, in all his glory!

Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post. It features a character called Wullie; Wullie is a Scots nickname for boys named William, equivalent to Willie. His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he uses as a seat: most strips since early 1937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket. The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining (e.g., "I nivver get ony fun roond here!"). The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since. A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).

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Wee boys will be wee boys and run from girls!

Do you see his catapult. Or do you call them slingshots?

A good old fashioned leather satchel!

Did you have one as a kid?

A side view of oor Wullie is a great way to see his spiky hair. Remember this comic strip is 80 years old, it shows that trendy hairstyles have been in vogue for almost a 100 years!

There is his bucket or pail which was his seat!

I am sure you have sat on one too?

Another fascade of the gallery.

Do you know who the statue is?

We shall see in a wee minute.

Robert Burns or Rabbie Burns, one of the world's greatest poets, and Scotland's national poet.

I am pretty sure that this was the original DC Thomson newspaper offices.

Being a city, Dundee has a great bus system although the colour was unusual!

After a spot of walking and shopping, you need to have a wee bit of nosh!

When we lived in America, the only fast food place I would eat at was Taco Bell.

I loved the hot Fire sauce and that they used Pinto beans!

Now however I find out the sauce is pretty weak and they don't use pinto beans anymore!

This was a big disappointment to be honest. Although the Quesadilla was fine enough.

Oh look a dragon!

There you see that back end of that tram car, which was aptly called The Auld Tram. Auld being Scottish for old and it was a wee cafe takeaway!

There is a local legend about the dragon and the Nine Maidens of Pitempten is one of the most enduring.

A carved Pict symbol stone 400 A.D. to 850 A.D, near Bridgefoot, Angus, Scotland marks the spot where the dragon was allegedly slain. The legend states that the farmer at Pitempton had nine daughters, and one day he sent one to the well for water. When she did not return, he sent another, and so on until all nine were missing.

When he investigated he found their mangled remains along with a great serpent or dragon. On rousing the countryside, a young man named Martin, lover of one of his daughters, attacked the dragon and eventually slew it.

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Don't you just love local myths and legends!

This post is of course for #wednesdaywalk which was started by the wonderful @tattoodjay.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!