Blogs from Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 6

General info: Currency: British Pound Cost of living: My first visit to the country of Loch Ness monster and kilts (mens skirts). Glasgow welcomed me with typical British Islands weather. Gloomy, chilly, constantly raining. Even though I did not give up my plan to see the city. Some of the attractions were located in walking distance from the hotel. In the company of lovely Ukrainin girl met on the flight, we went out the same evening after arrival. We walked along the river heading to Clyde Arc. That eye catching construction is one of the local landmarks. On our way we could see also interesting bridges, The Squiggly and The Kingstone. As well we found very nice italian restaurant called The Rotunda, so we came in for a dinner and deserved glass of wine. The next ... read more

Following on from my blog of 2 days ago. Hi from Glasgow but more from there later. I need to finish Passau and move onto the beautiful town of Cresy Kumlov in the Czech Republic. We left Passau on Monday morning after enjoying our time in Passau, finishing of with a very successful shopping trip to the Brax store were I managed to get a couple of things that I have been after. They make some very good jeans etc.. We also had a very nice evening with a number of people from the boat trip, enjoying an evening meal with great conversation and great food. We are hoping to catch up with Karen and John in England, time permitting, but will certainly keep in touch. So, to the town of Cresy Kumlov, about a 2 ... read more

Rather than writing too much this time about the history of all the locations we visited, whenever possible I've included links that you can follow to learn more about the various places if you want to do that. The ferry to Scotland is not too far from us, in the town of Larne. We had some difficulty finding a taxi that would take us to Larne early Monday morning. I had to call five different companies on Sunday before finding one in Larne, of the few that was open and willing to start work early enough on Monday to pick us up at 7:00AM. He arrived 20 minutes late, after phoning me twice, having difficulty finding us. Our cottage sits right on the edge of Garron road which is the coast road from Larne all the ... read more

After the struggle of packing everything, not only for home, but also for a two week European vacation, I was finally ready to head to the hotel. I took a cab to the hotel, and struggled to push my suitcases into the hotel. Since the room wasn’t ready yet, I had them hold my bags for me and I headed to the airport to meet the family. After waiting a bit since their flight was delayed and, as I would later learn, their bags were on the wrong flight, I finally saw them coming out of the baggage claim area. It was so great to see everyone, and we were all ready to head to the hotel. We took a taxi to the hotel and headed up to get situated in our rooms. We then had ... read more

The city of Glasgow has brought us many things; famous actors and TV personalities such as Ewan McGregor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, James McAvoy and Gordon Ramsay; famous musicians and bands such as Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, Mark Knopfler, Travis and er, Wet Wet Wet; the 2014 Commonwealth Games; and an outstanding contribution to football which includes Celtic and Rangers football clubs, Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish, Jock Stein and er, David Moyes. Having gifted the world with such cultural and sporting prowess as well as being the biggest city in Scotland - a city famous for its urban, industrial grit, in contrast to the beautiful, peaceful nature of the Highlands - Glasgow demanded a visit. Back in Edinburgh, my tour of the Highlands had come to an end and the group and I were ... read more