Our Glasgow holiday of 2008

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This was a vacation we'll never forget!

To cut a long story short, I've listed the top ten things that made our Glasgow holiday of 2008 something that will stick like sodden mud in our brains until the day we die, or otherwise until the day we stop laughing in complete shock!

I'm telling you this now - what happened to us in those two nightmare weeks just couldn't be made up...

1. Our planned holiday to Portugal we were looking forward to was cancelled at the last minute, because the tour operator went bust. That ol' dastardly credit crunch ya-de-ya-da.

2. Our satellite TV then broke, so our rare and much-deserved day of doing nothing but watch TV in bed had to be cancelled.

3. So we decided to go and see the Rest And Be Thankful, one of the most amazing views you'll find anywhere in Scotland, but when we got there it was raining heavily and coated in dense mist, so we got absolutely soaked to the skin and saw nothing whatsoever beyond our cold, dripping noses.

4. To dry ourselves off we drove from the Rest and Be Thankful to the Cruin Restaurant for a drink, a great little place on the banks of Loch Lomond. Superb idea, eh? Well, while we were in having a drink, our car's handbrake failed, and it rolled from its parking space next to the restaurant, down the hill and straight into Loch Lomond. Yup, that's right folks, it went for a swim, and we spent the rest of the day organising to get it dragged out in one piece!

5. OK, so this was getting more comical by the minute. Our other car was already broken. We put it in to get fixed so we'd have at least one car to get around on our Glasgow holiday, to make the fortnight suck at least a bit less than it already did. But despite our sullen faces glaring broken-heartedly at the engineers, we got no sympathy and it ended up costing us £1,300 to get it fixed, which is pretty much the same value as the car. So as you might imagine, after we paid that we were well and truly skint.

6. While it was in getting fixed, no courtesy cars were available, so our alternative plans for some great days out in Scotland had to be cancelled as well, given that whilst public transport is pretty good in Glasgow, you're really better with a car if you're travelling elsewhere.

7. To cheer ourselves up therefore, we planned a relaxing day visiting some of Glasgow's best attractions (using public transport, of course!). However, they were all closed because of a Council strike. Hmmm...

8. Instead we came back and planned a romantic meal at home, a last desperate attempt to bring a smile to our downtrodden faces. Our oven broke. We had to make do with tinned soup.

9. And to cap it all off, we got up the next morning to start a brand new day, forgetting all the past stresses and strains, but our boiler broke while I was in the shower. I caught a cold.

10. Not that I needed a cold, because I spent the entire two weeks sneezing due to hayfever, despite the lack of summer weather.

So what a Glasgow holiday!

I swear all of that's true. We began to think that we were getting tested by a Higher Power, or otherwise filmed for a reality TV show, but no such luck. I guess we were just destined to spend our longed-for vacation on the phone to insurers and supply companies, and decorating our house as there was nothing else we had the mental strength left to do!

At least during our time off I managed to become a pro at Wii tennis - how's that for a Glasgow holiday?!!!

Here's the photos of our Glasgow holiday in case you thought I was lying!

Apologies for the quality of some of the photos. They were taken by me on my mobile phone, and at certain points I was crying so hard I don't think my alignment was the greatest!

If anyone has images that top these however, your own personal Glasgow holiday tragedies, please fire them in my direction and I'll upload them so that everyone can get a laugh at our shared misfortune.

Seriously though, all I'd ask you to bear in mind is that our Glasgow holiday of 2008 is by no means indicative of what you can expect if you come here for a vacation. I think in those two fateful weeks I soaked up all the bad luck Scotland had to dish out, so you should be OK!

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A great scene for an accident!	On the right tracks	Dude, where's my car?
The rescue begins...	The long arm of hope	Time for some perspective
There she is!	Rescued from the depths	Drowned and the damage done
Reverse to Victory	The last journey	Time to say goodbye!

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