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Back from Glasgow
That was a really good weekend - not terribly hectic, but great fun. Many thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
claycarnac and Lindsay-Jane for crashspace, good food and good company.
I think I like Glasgow. Spacious city centre, interesting architecture, lots of fun places - and lots of smaller roads and interesting shops once you're off the beaten track. Highlights included a very nice pub (Blackfriars), a lovely Polish-influenced restaurant (Oblomov, iirc?), the underground system and Glasgow Central station itself, which was also pretty nice. I got to wander past Britain's first mosque, too - still standing and still in use, although (as Linday pointed out) the garden could do with a little work. :)
Plenty of goths and alternative types, too - when I first arrived at the station, there were about twenty young goth/spookykids there. The 'disreputable schoolgirl' look seems to be the order of the day - which was odd, as most of the teenagers dressed that was probably were still at school.
Oh, and there was Bedlam on Saturday night, too. Which was great fun - it's been much too long since I actually spent a goth night dancing! Saw Derek, met various people whose name I've now forgotten, spent a very brisk few minutes outside when the fire alarm went off (...I was wearing a mesh top *sigh*) and came back in to find that the next song was the Cult's Fire Woman. Greig has a definite sense of humour...
Discovered a few of the differences between Glasgow and Midlands curry houses - ginger, mushrooms and/or chopped green chillies feature quite heavily in many Glasgwegian curry dishes, whereas baltis are probably the key feature in the midlands.
...and then spent most of Sunday lazing about and watching videos with Matt and Lindsay. Memento (which I really liked), Sixth Sense (so I'm no longer the only person alive who hasn't seen it - I'd already heard about the twist, of course), Dark City (because it's always worth watching again), Dogma and the first few episodes of Angel.
And then back down to Coventry this morning - the train trip's actually shorter than I expected, only an hour or so longer than to Cambridge or Southampton. Rather different in price, though...
claycarnac and Lindsay-Jane for crashspace, good food and good company.I think I like Glasgow. Spacious city centre, interesting architecture, lots of fun places - and lots of smaller roads and interesting shops once you're off the beaten track. Highlights included a very nice pub (Blackfriars), a lovely Polish-influenced restaurant (Oblomov, iirc?), the underground system and Glasgow Central station itself, which was also pretty nice. I got to wander past Britain's first mosque, too - still standing and still in use, although (as Linday pointed out) the garden could do with a little work. :)
Plenty of goths and alternative types, too - when I first arrived at the station, there were about twenty young goth/spookykids there. The 'disreputable schoolgirl' look seems to be the order of the day - which was odd, as most of the teenagers dressed that was probably were still at school.
Oh, and there was Bedlam on Saturday night, too. Which was great fun - it's been much too long since I actually spent a goth night dancing! Saw Derek, met various people whose name I've now forgotten, spent a very brisk few minutes outside when the fire alarm went off (...I was wearing a mesh top *sigh*) and came back in to find that the next song was the Cult's Fire Woman. Greig has a definite sense of humour...
Discovered a few of the differences between Glasgow and Midlands curry houses - ginger, mushrooms and/or chopped green chillies feature quite heavily in many Glasgwegian curry dishes, whereas baltis are probably the key feature in the midlands.
...and then spent most of Sunday lazing about and watching videos with Matt and Lindsay. Memento (which I really liked), Sixth Sense (so I'm no longer the only person alive who hasn't seen it - I'd already heard about the twist, of course), Dark City (because it's always worth watching again), Dogma and the first few episodes of Angel.
And then back down to Coventry this morning - the train trip's actually shorter than I expected, only an hour or so longer than to Cambridge or Southampton. Rather different in price, though...
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We did have some half-formed plans to visit museums, see the sights and generally be cultured and outgoing. But then the video night and curry won. ;)
Ginger!
Which reminds me: the Body Shop is having a sale and their ginger and lemongrass showergel is down from 3.50GBP to 2GBP. I bought two... and rather a lot of other stuff too...
Mind you, it should keep me going for a decade or so. I'm not joking: I still have about a quarter of two big bottles of bubblebath I bought there at least 10 years ago.