Travel Blogs from Glasgow, United Kingdom
Checking In
... us he misplaced us with a bunch of prepubescent pre-teens on a high-school trip. Nice one. The teachers were pissed. But let's let bygones be bygones - touring Glasgow tomorrow! p.s. actually have to pay for wi-fi - only real setback to this place. ...
A trip for dinner turns into a 5 hour adventure
... top deck only to find out the bus would be heading back to Glasgow at 11:00pm. It was 10:00. After a (cheap) tour around Glasgow and surrounding area, we finally made it back to our hostel. Note to fellow travellers: if the bus is *sort of* near your ...
The Highlands
... heavy so we couldn't see much. We tried to see if there was somewhere at Dumbarton we could stay but decided to drive on to Glasgow. We spotted this hotel, The Best Western Pond Hotel. So we booked in here for the next two days. I have been trying to ...
Snow Day
... television. So what have I done since my last post, oh went to a football match saturday afternoon with Graham watched Glasgow Rangers vs. Kilmarnock, the Rangers won 4-0 wasn't a bad game, for soccer haha. It was absolutely freezing out though, ...
One month to go...
One month today I shall be in Sydney, Australia. A scary thought but a sunny one. In the mean time I have managed to prise some holidays off of work as well as handing in my notice ( ensuring the holidays were guaranteed before ...
Last Week of Classes in Glasgow
... . I went to bed pretty early because it had been a long day. March 26- Put up pictures and video on FB that I had been neglecting, laundry, errands, and packing for 3 weeks. Longest time away from Glasgow since I've gotten here, but I'm so ...
night out!
Hey! Wow what a night, thanks to everyone for coming! Was great to see you all one last time before I went. Ended up bevying in the downstairs bit of Budha till 3am i think, what a laugh it was :-) Forgot to take pics (too busy talking/drinking!) ...
Glasgow could have been cool
Today we drove from the Highlands to Glasgow. Stopped off at Fort William and had a photo stop at Ben Nevis and Loch Lomond. Got to watch a 'Loch' canal at work (pity can't remember where it was) which was very interesting. Spent a lot of time on the bus ...
Reading & Writing Week
... she was at an amusment park. We decided that we would look for some place to ski on snow soon; maybe Braehead just outside of Glasgow. After the lesson it was grocery shopping and cooking dinner, and then Martin texted me to see if I was going to Nude ...
Scotland = Nice People
... 3.5 metre ceilings.The winding stairs weren't even half the size of my size 6 foot back then. After Glasgow where many famous ocean liners were built such as the Queen Mary and QE II, we drove south to the Borders ...
Scotland Vacation - August 10, 1999
... I forgot to bring one from home. I like Glasgow, but it is definately not my favorite place in Scotland. I stayed another night in Glasgow. This was the only time in all of my Scotland excursions that I stayed at the same B&B for more than ...
Back to Reality - what happened next?
I returned home at the end of July and what happened next? Well, I recovered from my jet lag very slowly after a very long flight home, acclimatised back to the Scottish weather and re-accustomed my ears to Scottish accents. I surprised my man with my ...
Visiting Home...
So I had a great time back in Scotland. I caught up with my friends and family and just did normal things that you do at home. We had a February Christmas dinner and I went and did all the touristy things in Edinburgh that I love. Andrew and I spent two ...
Day 6-7 Glasgow
... there. The city centre is clean and has loads of shopping and pubs etc. It didn't stop raining for the 2 days in Glasgow, i actually bought myself a Gortex jacket and threw away my doonah jacket that made me look like michelan man. Glasgow had a couple ...
When I called you last night from Glasgow...
... Walter Scott and a sprightly Victoria on horseback). From George Square we ploughed through the ever-thinning streets to the Glasgow Cathedral. I was very unimpressed until I realized I was staring at the moratorium instead - I turned around and walked ...
Iain and Gillian
... we wanted to do, but we didn't have any ideas so we decided on a tour of the town by car. We walked over to the Glasgow Caledonian University where Iain lectures and where the car was parked, and were given a tour through one of the buildings as the girls ...
2nd weekend in Glasgow
Januray 17- Morning spent in the room getting more paperwork done/updating my resume/spending time online. I also went down to Byers Road to try to find a job but everywhere was so busy I figured I'd try again on Monday, didn't want ...
home james
Arrived back in Glasgow safe and sound, great seeing everyone again but i just want to go away again. Ive well and truely caught the travelling bug! Until the next ...
Scotland Vacation - August 9, 1999
I arrived in Glasgow, Scotland at about 10:00AM in the morning on August 9, 1999. I received my rental car and headed out towards the B&B that awaited. It was the only time during any of my Scotland vacations that I reserved a place to ...
Yellow Brick Road - The Journey to Oz
We had a party at Castle Kersland before I left Glasgow as a final farewell and to celebrate Halloween, Peaches 'baby shower' and Cecilia moving in. No entry needed really as the photos speak for ...
Business trippin'
... way public transport operates in Belgium. Back to the order of the day though. The actual reason for my trip to Glasgow was Scothot 2013, Scotland's biggest 2B2 hospitality event. I was pretty nervous. Not that it was my first trade fair for ...
Band of Idiots do Magalluf
After the shennanigans of Gran Canaria Pedro and the Band of Idiots booked up for another destination hot spot. The boys set off to Magaluff ready for another two weeks of drink-fuelled ...
End of Scotland
Our last stop before leaving Scotland is Glasgow. We check out the lovely university park area, as well as some of the museums and churchs. We also visit the Winter ...
I don't kwant to travel alone!
Lauren's in Northern Ireland, I'm in Glasgow and we've not even started yet! Hopefully we can keep a slightly better eye on each other when we're away! Well, the main reason for this first entry is that it is from this fair city that we are actually ...
A Wee Visit
... was assuming I could find the way ! Back on my last visit in 2004, the streets of Paisley, which lies between Glasgow Airport and Giffnock, had not actually changed that much. It appears there has been some accelerated economic activity in Scotland since ...
Onward to Glasgow!
... covers and a nice title page. Seem like a logical thing to do... keeps everything organized. Well, going through customs in Glasgow was a bit different. The guy was asking me a bunch of questions about where I was going and what I was ...
Mairit!
What can I say? The wedding turned out to be one of the most wonderful yet most surreal weddings I've ever been to in my life. Wonderful because, well it just was! Surreal because the last person of our original school crowd that we ever expected to ...
Project 330
Evenin' y'all, I've been trying to think of ways to keep the blog entertaining and quirky, and Abi and I hit upon the idea of taking a photo at the same time every day. The idea is that it will demonstrate not only to you guys, but us too, how diverse ...

