10/07/2023
🏆 Britain’s Best Bits no.348*: Glasgow
“The world’s friendliest city” (TimeOut, 2022) oozes history, culture and good times. All major museums and galleries are free! And the great outdoors are very close by - head to Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, explore the Isle of Bute or start the West Highland Way from here. There are many more reasons to love Glasgow too, not least:
🏛️ Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum – 8,000 exhibits, including an old Spitfire
🎡 Festivals, and lots of them. Leading cultural lights include Glasgow Film Festival, Celtic Connections, Aye Write! and TRNSMT Festival
🧛♀️ There’s a spooky graveyard (Glasgow Necropolis) with a vampire myth. So plenty to sink your teeth into
📚 Some good reads to inspire visits to Glasgow include Lanark (Alasdair Gray), How Late It Was, How Late (James Kelman) and Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart). Spot the Dear Green Place on screen in Taggart, Trainspotting, Red Road, Under the Skin and Ratcatcher.
Next up in the series: A Welsh bay with some flippin’ amazing residents.
*We're currently on a mission to venture beyond ‘best of’ lists, bringing you the most intriguing, inspirational and (sometimes) under-appreciated bits of Britain. All in delightfully random order.