Glasgow
Glasgow is the most Scottish of cities, with a unique blend of
friendliness, urban chaos, black humour and energy. It boasts
excellent art galleries and museums, as well as numerous good-value
restaurants, countless pubs and bars and a rollicking arts scene.
Glasgow is one of Britain's largest, liveliest and most
interesting cities, with a legacy of appealing Victorian
architecture and several distinguished suburbs of terraced squares
and crescents.
The city centre is built on a grid system on the north side of
the River Clyde. The two train stations (Central and Queen St), the
Buchanan Bus Station and the TIC are all within a couple of blocks
of George Square, the main city square. Running along a ridge in the
northern part of the city, Sauchiehall St (first syllable pronounced
'suck') has a pedestrian mall with numerous High Street shops at its
eastern end, and pubs and restaurants at its western end. Argyle St,
running parallel to the river, and pedestrianised Buchanan St, at
right angles to Argyle St, are important shopping streets. Merchant
City is the commercial district, east of George Square.
Glasgow boasts an excellent public transport system, especially
the local rail network. The Roundabout Glasgow ticket covers all
underground and train transport in the city for a day. If you're
going further afield, get the FirstTourist ticket.
Local bus
services around the city are frequent. It helps to have exact
change when you board. First Glasgow publishes the complicated
but useful Glasgow Mapmate, which shows all local First bus
routes.
Taxis are plentiful in Glasgow (and the drivers can be a mine
of information), plus there's an extensive suburban network of
trains in and around Glasgow; tickets should be bought before
travel if the station is staffed, or from the conductor if it
isn't. There's also an underground line that serves 15 stations
in the centre, west and south of the city. The rail network
connects with the Underground at Buchanan St station.
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