I have a few friends from deep down south (Southampton/Bournmouth), who came to Sheffield and stayed. Tony likes it up North, especially delicacies like gravy on your chips at the chippy.

I probably am most northern....unless we have any scandinavians?
Coo. I feel I should be more....alien. And probably taller, and interested in boats.

Ooh, Jon, d'you read the Transport News? At least , i think that's what it's called, covers Scotland and N. England, apparently. One of my mates used to write for it and is now starting again...

Dante where in scotland are you?

I might be going there in the summer, my boyfriend is scottish, he was born in the Shetland islands

Carla, I'm in Glasgow. Well, I work in Glasgow and live fairly close. I've never been to the Shetlands, though I'd like to. The only Scottish island i've ever been to is Mull, with the little trips to Iona and Staffa too. That's great, as long as you don't mind little boats.

I've been to Arran too, but it doesn't count cos it's very boring.

well i've only been to edinburgh for ... 24 hours ... last summer (train up on saturday, trek up arthur's seat, 30th birthday party of a friend of michael, sleep, train back down)

it's @#$%& to fly anywhere in Europe than to scotland! same with trains unless you book ages in advance! bah!

We want to go to the highlands this time, i want to go to loch ness ( :-) ) and maybe stay in peebles a couple of days (michael's mum lives in Peebles)

Yeah, I know...it costs a *lot* of money to go the the Orkneys or Shetlands - probably more than a @#$%& fortnight in Spain or something! It's really annoying, but I guess they don't get the numbers they need to cut the prices, and there's hardly any funding or that. They were threatening to shut Barra airport (er... the beach...) down fairly recently, I think.

Loch Ness is nice. I think. Haven't been anywhere north of Crianlarich for years.

Um, I've been round the Highlands by train and boat, but it was only one day ... it was very good. Especially the bit where we went past where 'Ring of Bright Water' was written. We plan to stay somewhere near Oban next year. (But not in the midge season, och deary me, no. Pif paf pof.)

Dante; I know naught of this Transport News ... it isn't Transit, is it?



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Jon: Ummm.....dunno. I may have invented the name.

My mate's parents have a B&B near Oban. Tis very nice. (And they're only *slightly* scary.)

We are only going in the end of august to try and escape the midges... michael and his mum have been scaring me about them!

I cycled Land's End to John O'Groats a couple of years ago and the Scottish part was fantastic. Slightly scary that when you get to Glasgow, you're not even two-thirds of the way through but the scenery was great. We went up Loch Lomond, over Rannoch Moor, through Fort William, up Loch Ness then up over the top (Altnaherra) to Thurso and along the north coast.

Carla: I'd been told horror stories about the midges but didn't have any problems. We went end of June which I think is before they get bad. Either that or I cycled too fast for them !

I've been on holiday to Glasgow twice. I felt right at home there, just as I did in Sheffield. Glasgow has some fabulous museums, art galleries and buildings - Oh, and shops too :) Highly recommended as a place to visit especially if you don't have a car and are too lazy to cycle round Highlands. The Clockwork Orange is a very handy way of getting about.

'Cept that it isn't orange anymore and doesn't go to Central Station, and don't use it when Rangers are at home. But yes, I liked Glasgow too. I prefer Edinburgh though (the pubs are nicer - in the Old Town, anyway).



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It was orange a couple of years ago, I'm sure ! And brown inside - a very 70's vibe, somehow.

I once did some holidays where I spent a few days in Glasgow (loved it), went to Stirling (great castle, and the William Wallace monument), then went to Inverness for a couple of days, where I went by boat through the river to Loch Ness, amazing!!!!!
I love Inverness, small town, very quiet, with the cold river, the little island.... I got amazing sunny days too!

'Tis too still orange. Most of it, anyway. A couple of the trains were painted brown-y when it got sponsored by Morgan's Spiced a wee while ago.
(This has got into my head now, and I'm worried that it's actually red and cream.....but I think that's just the normal trains.)

And it goes to St Enoch, which is, oooh, 3 minutes amble from Central Station...did it used to go to Central? My current problem with it is that it doesn't start till 11 on a Sunday and finishes at 6, whereas my working day is 9-7. Very handy.

Rangers-Celtic game starts in 25 minutes. Wouldn't like to be in the pubs tonight.... not sure where it's being played, though.

I know I don't appreciate the museums and stuff enough. (Or the shops, for that matter, until I went to Oxford Street recently (in london) and discovered there was nothing I couldn't get in Glasgow.) I very rarely go... sometimes to the Museum of Modern Art. And some of the centre looks very pretty, especially at night... Occassionally, I catch a glimpse of George Square from an unusual place and realise that if I saw it in a city where I was a tourist, I'd be stunned and impressed.

Things I liked best about Glasgow

The Clockwork Orange
Touring Charles Rennie Mackintosh's School of Art, and feeling this fabulous building as a living and breathing entity, not a museum
Wimpy burger bars with waitress service and really good burgers
That grand equestrian statue that always has a traffic cone on the rider's head (and sometimes the horse's too).
Glasweigians
The Glasweigian version of the Ten Commandments in the People's Palace
The fantastic moving mechanical thingies in the Musuem of Modern Art
Bookshop with comfy sofas open till 9.00pm
The little arcade full of jewellery shops
Seeing more ads for Irn Bru than Coke/Pepsi
Their arts cinema has the same initials as me - GFT

Beginning to think I want to go back - then there's so many other places I haven't seen yet.

I've only ever been to the School of Art clubbing. And I've never been to the House for an Art-Lover, which is supposed to be fantastic.

The statue's kind of famous now for having the cone...it was even the symbol of some Arts Festival or other fairly recently. I quite like it. At least it makes you notice it's there....there's something like 18 statues in George Sq, and apart from the lions and the big pointy one, you just ignore them...

Ah, and the bookshops...there's two open till late now, Borders is open to 11, and 8 or 9 on Sundays...heaven! You were probaby in Waterstones? Borders is quite new. Though probably older than I think.

In a few months, once I get a flat, we could have a Glasgow meet...

The house for an Art Lover *is* fantastic. It was Waterstones where I spent most of my evenings. I stayed on Renfrew street, not far from the Art College. It turned out to be a pretty good base

I went to Glasgow once, and stayed there for about a week, but didn't have much time for sightseeing: I was there for 1995's World Science Fiction Convention, and attending that _ & socialising with other fen _ gave me more than enough to do.

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"Some days I diet, other days they serve lasagne."

Fen? A typos or an alien plural?????

I'm scared of typos now, I wqas being tested all this morning for my new job agency (Poorly Paid Idiots R US, is its name)


They found me a job, though. And they're giving me money!!



My reality check has just bounced again.......