June 2006

Unlimited Rail Pass Coming Soon

It's just been announced over here that visitors to Glasgow will soon be offered an unlimited rail pass covering the City's airports, shopping centres and tourist attractions.

The provisional title is a 'Rover Pass', and it'll be designed to cure the difficulties Glasgow experiences at present in attempting to shuttle our fair foreign friends around without their getting lost or otherwise bored out their skins with waiting.

Just goes to show how much the Tourist Board's really pushing the boat out these days to make the place as accessible as other major hotspots, and about time too if you ask me.

In the meantime, I've also just found out that the Trinidad and Tobago Tourist Board is organising a 'thank you' concert in George Square in the City. It's to thank the Scots for supporting them so voraciously against England in the World Cup, a stance which has been attracting a great deal of criticism from down South for some reason. It's just all crazy I tell you.

Should be pretty exciting though. They'll be coming on 15th July and will be bringing a reggae band ('Flame'), limbo dancers, cultural dancers and musician SW Storm, and some of the team will be there to join in the fun. And here's the main attraction - if you'll be here and pop along to the Square on the 15th, you'll likely see me dressed quite unfashionably in bright colours and making a complete fool of myself trying to dance in a way that I just don't know how. Be sure to take your camera...

...I can just see you, banging as hard as you can on the door of the Tourist Board, pleading for them to hurry up with the cheap rail pass out of the City.

Is Glasgow cheap to visit?

Answer - 'Aye, it is pal'. Have a look at this article below and see why.

So I guess I don't have an excuse now. Normally when I get to the bar on nights out in Glasgow, I'll baulk at the £2.40 pints I have to cough up for. Really, I should be thinking of places like London where you'll have to sell your house before thinking about getting a round in. ;-)

So it's all good for us miserly Scots - we'll shake our reputation one of these days I tell you...

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Glasgow shops till it drops

Yeah OK, so never mind what I said yesterday about taking time off to move house etc.

Shopping, in Tracey's mind, always always takes priority, and when she got the news that Glasgow has just taken another huge step towards being a 24-hour shopping mecca, I was literally strong-armed to the PC to make the appropriate announcement.

For some time now there have been a number of increasingly large shopping centres popping up in the outskirts of the City, each of them easily accessible from the M8 Motorway (eg. Braehead, the innovatively open-air Glasgow Fort, and the soon-to-be-completed shopping beast, Silverburn, in Pollok). As a result, it's been fairly noticable that the City Centre has had to cut prices and generally buck up its ideas to ensure it continues to attract the vast quantities of Traceys out there looking to spend their hard-earned greens, and Glasgow truly has been earning its mantle as the UK's best shopping City outside London.

So much so that now we've heard that Buchanan Galleries and St. Enoch Centre, two large bastions of shopping utopia in the City Centre, are launching a pilot scheme soon which could very well involve late-night opening every day of the week.

For Tracey, this is like being told she's won the Lottery. For me, it's like being told that Tracey's won the Lottery and plans to drag me around the shops when I should really be nuzzling into my pillow fast asleep (or alternatively out clubbing until the wee hours - a much better way of spending time I'd say...).

So I'll keep you posted on this pretty exciting development in Glasgow's upsurgence - Until then, I'm off to earn the wife's shopping budget. :-(

Moving house during a Wold Cup?

I must be crazy.

This is the main reason I've not been blogging for a while. To be honest, I could really have bored to you all to tears with the ins and outs of my house move (which is due to complete in the middle of next month), or even fill you in on my non-insighful insights into every World Cup game - I can see the Title now...'Loser Glaswegian with Lobey Dosser Complex Attempts to Convince the World that Ecuador Will Win the World Cup'.

However, I've simply not had the time, and in any event I'm sure that neither bears much relevance at all to the Dear Green Place.

So, I'll be back soon guys and gals, and hope to be filling out the site with much more in the way of essential info and so on.

I can just anticipate the baited breath of Nations...

Easyjet extends service to Glasgow Airport

Easyjet has just announced that it will be boosting its Glasgow flights service, meaning more choice and flexibility if you're travelling here from Gatwick Airport in London.

Whilst Glasgow Airport handles long-haul flights to the City, if you're looking for a cheaper option then Easyjet may well be your answer.

I'll get back to you on this once it's clear exactly what the extended service will provide, but at this point, it seems clear that if you'll be struggling to find a cheap flight to Glasgow, you might save some cash by flying to London first and then onto an Easyjet to here.

If more planes are headed in this direction in the future, it just goes to show how magnetic Glasgow is.

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