GLASGOW ANDY SYMINGTON 00--title-contents-pk-gla1.inddtitle-contents-pk-gla1.indd 1 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:23:550:23:55 AM Contents Plan Your Trip 4 Welcome to Glasgow ..........4 Top Sights ............................6 Eating .................................10 Drinking & Nightlife ..........12 Shopping ............................14 Entertainment ...................16 Activities ............................18 Architecture & Design ............................20 Tours .................................. 22 Festivals & Events............ 24 For Kids ............................. 25 LGBT .................................. 26 Museums & Galleries .......27 Four Perfect Days ............28 Need to Know ...................30 Glasgow Neighbourhoods .............. 32 Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross (p90) SKULLY/SHUTTERSTOCK © 00--title-contents-pk-gla1.inddtitle-contents-pk-gla1.indd 2 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:24:170:24:17 AM Explore Survival Glasgow 35 Guide 143 Central Glasgow................37 Before You Go ................ 144 East End ............................ 59 Arriving in Glasgow ........145 Merchant City ...................77 Getting Around .............. 146 Southside Essential Information .....148 & the Clyde ...................... 101 West End ..........................115 Special Features Glasgow Cathedral ..........60 City Chambers ..................78 Riverside Museum .........102 Glasgow Science Centre................105 University of Glasgow ... 120 00--title-contents-pk-gla1.inddtitle-contents-pk-gla1.indd 3 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:24:180:24:18 AM Welcome to Glasgow DisarminglyDisarmingly blendblendinging sophissophisticationtication anandd earthinearthinessess,, SSccototland’sland’s biggestbiggest citycity iiss one of BritaiBritain’sn’s most intrigintriguing.uing. GlasgowGlasgow is a good-timegood-time towntown behindbehind a sober facade.facade. Upright, handsomehandsome Victorian buildingsbuildings have beebeenn subverted: offbeat basement bars sit under lawyers’ offices, churches become galleries, restaurants occupy former trade guilds. The combina- tion of edgy urbanity, underdog solidarity and the residents’ legendary friendliness is totally captivating. 01--welcome-to-pk-gla1.inddwelcome-to-pk-gla1.indd 4 111/10/20181/10/2018 33:07:07:07:07 AM University of Glasgow (p120) THE VERTICAL VIEW LTD/SHUTTERSTOCK © 01--welcome-to-pk-gla1.inddwelcome-to-pk-gla1.indd 5 111/10/20181/10/2018 33:07:11:07:11 AM 6 Top Sights CLAUDIO DIVIZIA/SHUTTERSTOCK © DIVIZIA/SHUTTERSTOCK CLAUDIO Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights Glasgow Cathedral Grand Gothic church; atmospheric cemetery. p60 02--top-sights-pk-gla1.inddtop-sights-pk-gla1.indd 6 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:27:350:27:35 AM 7 ELIZABETH LEYDEN/ALAMY © LEYDEN/ALAMY ELIZABETH Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights St Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life & Art Inspiringly cross-cultural survey of religion. p64 02--top-sights-pk-gla1.inddtop-sights-pk-gla1.indd 7 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:27:410:27:41 AM.