Has anyone.......
 

ever been to my hometown .... Glasgow, the only place that I know of where I have been that some pubs are open 23 hours a day ..(no wise cracks about scottish folk liking their drink please - I know a few folk down here who can put them to shame ! lol)
If so why were you there, where did you go, and what did you do ?
was it what you expected ? (what were you expecting??) & what did you think of it ? (that last bit can really depend on which part you were in..)

Just curious as to what peoples perceptions are of the city are - thats all.

thanks.

yes ive stayed at some friends of mine in glasgow last year, cant tell you wot district it was, but not to far from : the grand ol opree: i was supposed to go but didnt get there , i will put the district on tomoz, one thing i can say is how friendly the people were & how clean it was, especially the council estates .

ahh justremember were it was it was the pennylee district ? any good ?

I've been up that neck of the woods as well... Got a present one time of a stay in the Marriot hotel up there, very nice it was to. Just did the whole tourist thing and got leathered in the evening (obviously could have done that in the morning as well but, you know).. I found it quite interesting that my journey there from Accrington was exactly 200 miles..

why did the grand ole opre stick in your head mez ?
Are you a lover of all things country & western (thats what goes on in there) and pennylee (southside of glasgow) is quite a nice place to live in - some parts are quite expensive !

thats right , where I go in glasgow is exactly 220 miles from Accrington - a journey which we can do in precisely 2hours 10 mins - and thats not speeding up the m6,m74 !!

hang on, let me do my maths - 220 miles divided by 2.16 (2hrs 10mins) gives an average speed of 101.85 MPH!! So if your not speeding up the m6/m74 you must be speeding up some other roads :-) Whats your secret?

i was going for a nite out there but it got cancelled,( due to family argument) ( nothing to do with me ) went to a pub instead, dont remember too much , i got a liking for the irn brew with a little something, did go to coast a couple of times just to see the sea, we took all kids on picnics, there were 10 of um ///// the tipple helped ha ha ha , the countryside is beautiful.

No secret ! we can leave clayton at 11am and arrive in south Lanarkshire (m74,hamilton turnoff) at basically 1.10 give or take a few minutes.
And thats the good lady driving ! we just have it down to a fine art I guess, she's been doing it for years and I know which roads to take if theres a road block or whatever on the M74 or perhaps its just not that busy at that time of day - but we can do it inside 2 hours 15 minutes !

That wouldnt be vodka in with your Irn Bru would it ;) ?? - its the only time I drink vodka is when its in that drink.
Your a brave person for going to the coast, I know people in glasgow who wont go to the seaside in scotland !!
And yes the countryside is beautiful but the sad thing is that people in glasgow would rather jump on a plane and go abroad for a break rather than drive 30 minutes to loch lomond for a break - not many scottish folk go on holiday in Scotland - thats why you find so many tourists in scotland - if there was more locals you wouldnt really notice them .

Your forgetting the time difference Roy!!

0but isnt that the same no matter where we live, we have some beautiful countryside round here, ribble valley, rossendale valley , trough of bowland, the lakes, to many to mention , i took a friend from the south round ribble valley& the lakes was amazed at the beauty, i told her even wen we had clogs & shawls we still went to the ribble valley, yes i must addmitt i catch a plane for my hols, but theres nowt like home/

I may sound daft here but what are they ??
are you talking about clogs (as in wooden shoes) and shawls (as in what you drape tound yourself ?)
Or is this another of the infamous 'Lancashire dialect' - I only recentley found out what a 'ginnel' (spelling ??) was !!

yes clogs, wooden sole leather upper fastened with buttons with irons on the bottom, if you scraped them on the floor you made sparks, it was great, but you couldent walk in the snow with them cause you grew to 10 feet tall , quite a laugh. another word is a gannzi any one out there know wot it is, i do .

Never heard the word gannzi mez, tell us more.

too early to let the cat out the bag janet, see if anyone can solve the mystery?
i will give you a clue: you wear it, its an article of clothing? comeon people rack yer brains////

yeah I know what a ganzi is - its a cardigan type thing - my wife says it all the time !

oo, i thought id get a few with that one , shes a real lancs lass.

Never stayed in Glasgow, but have driven through it a few times on my way to Skye, Fort William, Loch Lomond and lots of other beautiful places. Loved all my holidays and long weekends in Scotland, people are friendly, beer is good, and with the fabulous countryside what more could anyone want (even had nice weather!!!!) :pint:

and thank you very much Lettie, Lancashires very own representitive for the Scottish Tourist Board !;)

Well mez, you learn summat every day.:worthy:

I learned that (ganzi) whilst we lived up in scotland - another one she comes out with is 'slotherers' - apparently they are comfy shoes ?? beats me but if thats what they are called then thats what they are called.

been loads of time, all the best places mind! Castlemilk...ever wonder where that name came from! Barrhead, easterhouse, Gorbles, Pollok......

Littlemo just how do you know all these erm... lovely places - I lived in easterhouse for 20 years so if you have been before you'll know what its like - these areas dont have a good reputation about them at all - nothing wrong with the folk that live there - the places just dont have a good name !!
the gorbals is now a yuppie village with £100k flats -very posh now , compared to what it used to be like with those huge high rise flats .
So please tell me how you knowof these areas !
And just for you Littlemo - How Castlemilk got its name !

The lands known as Cassilton of Carmunnock were bought by the Stuarts in 1460 and it is here they started construction of Cassilton Tower. The Stuarts brought the name Castlemilk with them. The family owned estates in Dumfriesshire, south of Lockerbie, named after their castle beside the River Mylk. (Their Castlemilk Estate also gave its name to Britain’s rarest breed of sheep, the Castlemilk Moorit!) When the family sold their lands in the south and moved their main residence to the area known as Cassilton in 1579, they changed its name to Castlemilk. Cassilton Tower’s main claim to fame was that Mary, Queen of Scots lodged here the night before the battle of Langside, in 1568.

Now you can sleep easier at night now !

so can we assume the original spelling of Castlemilk would have been castlemylk? My parents are originally from Glasgow. Commanhead would be where we would go when in easterhouse. I also have a friend out here that is from there and I do believe it is where Robert Carlyle the actor is from.

Wi called the back streets, baxies wen I were a lass in Preston.
Mi Dad called them Ginnels.
Never bin abroad in mi life.

I always thought a baxi was a gas fire ! :D
Yes you would be correct in asuming that the spelling would be as you say, the glasgow slang for Castlemilk is 'Castlemanky' because of the area (if you dont know what manky is I will tell you !)
And if your from the east end of Glasgow you would pronounce commonhead "commonheed" !!!
I always thought that Robert carlyle was from Dennistoun in glasgow (same place as Lulu ) but there you go !
So are your parents from Commonhead/heed then ? - thats way at the back of easterhouse, and if you have been to easterhouse which parts do you know of ?
this is quite trippy actually, talking about easterhouse to someone in canada whilst living in accrington !!

Re Have you ever....

Does this count?
I drove through Glasgow late one Friday night last year, on the way up to Torridon, for some quality climbing.
It persisted down. 'Tinsel Town in the Rain'. Is that common?

about as common as every person in scotland having bright red hair and big beards who eat haggis, drink whisky and wear kilts whilst tossing cabers and shouting " see you jimmy "! (russ abott has alot to answer for that one !)
It doesnt rain any more up in glasgow/scotland than what it does here in lancashire - I think that some people forget that they are only 2 odd hours away from glasgow/west of scotland so the weather is very much of the same.
I will admit that you do sometimes get 4 seasons in one day but thats somthing you are brought up with in scotland.
The 'Dear Green Place' is lovely in the rain, hail, sleet & snow.

hey glasgow did you hear fred elliot on corrie last nite bout his hols in italy (said it was ok but you needed yer gannzi at nite ) just thought id put that one in :thumbsup:

I heard it Mez, not heard the word gannzi for a long time.

Yes I did mez - and my other half sat up and said
'see it is a proper word !!'

I heard it too. I was a bit shocked at the time.
Thought mmm,strange.

not really anne its lancashire for cardigan, hey due you think he comes on accy web to find out some new & strange words? ha ha ha ha ha

of course he does - I said of course he does !

eeeh our glasgow i new yuod say somat like that /

And whats wrong with that I say, I say whats wrong with that ????
You know what they say my dear...... when in rome :D

as they do in glasgow wen they get the irn brew & somat out eh lad i say e lad na then :cheers: