Eurotrip: Dundee I

During our time in Scotland, the next big outside-of-Edinburgh adventure we had planned was (as you guessed from the title) Dundee! Getting to Dundee is much like getting to Perth, except you stay on the train slightly longer, so once again I got to experience the engineering magic of going over the Forth Bridge! Amazing. We had so thoroughly enjoyed going to the V&A Museum in London that we figured it would also be a lot of fun to go to the V&A branch office in Dundee, and so that was our first destination. We arrived in town about 20 minutes before the museum opened so we admired the Dundee waterfront. They have a big ole’ sculpture of a whale, and of course the River Tay was gorgeous. You could imagine rather large fish coming out of this part. Given my enthusiasm for the Forth Bridge it was interesting looking across to (and having just crossed) the location of the Tay Bridge Disaster. Eventually the V&A Dundee opened and so we head back toward the entrance. The building is very…