Glasgow Travel Video

[cessna152towser]

http://youtu.be/s60eNe27bwk
Excellent eight minute travelogue about Glasgow, made in 1993, with commentary in German language.
Made by a Scottish tour company for the European market and starring tour guide/driver Dougie Brookes who is one of my colleagues on Glasgow's heritage buses where I help out at special events during the summer.
There is a pipe band in the early scenes and the final minute is devoted to Highland Games.

[Chas]

Great little travelogue. Would be interesting to go round modern Glasgow and compare the changes (or not). Did anybody notice the Tardis at 5:20?

Regards

Chas

[Piipriker]

interesting comment of the presenter at the beginning:
"Those staying in Edinburgh for some days learn to love Scotland. Those staying several days in Glasgow learn to love the Scots."

[MacSpadger]

Great little travelogue. Would be interesting to go round modern Glasgow and compare the changes (or not). Did anybody notice the Tardis at 5:20?

Regards

Chas

There are still tardi, (is that the plural of tardis?) in Glasgow, Chas, tourists are often seen getting their picture taken at the one in Buchanan Street.

[Phil]

interesting comment of the presenter at the beginning:
"Those staying in Edinburgh for some days learn to love Scotland. Those staying several days in Glasgow learn to love the Scots."

I see that Traquair House features prominently in the introduction which is a little misleading in a travelogue about Glasgow being, as it is, near Innerleithen in the Scottish borders.
The inference from the above quote is that there is a dichotomy between Glasgow and Edinburgh which is perfectly correct. Glasgow, historically, was a melting-pot of different cultures. Irish escaping the famine there, Highlanders displaced by the clearances and their own potato famine, not to mention other, more recent, immigrant groups such as Jews, sub-continent Asians, and Europeans, all of whom have gravitated to Glasgow in greater numbers than to Edinburgh. Why, I do not know, but it may have been to join earlier migrants already there. And, of course, Glasgow historically had much greater low-skilled job opportunities for immigrants. All of this gave Glasgow a different population mix to Edinburgh and its inhabitants are generally regarded as more outgoing than the more reserved inhabitants of Edinburgh.
Whether it is true to infer as this does, however, that Glaswegians are more typical of Scots generally is doubtful. Liverpool has a similarly mixed population with a huge influx of Irish and other nationalities due to its one-time maritime position but one would not say that living there one would learn to love the English.

[Phil]

There are still tardi, (is that the plural of tardis?) in Glasgow, Chas, tourists are often seen getting their picture taken at the one in Buchanan Street.

Lots of them still in Edinburgh too. Some have been made into coffee shops.

[MacSpadger]

Lots of them still in Edinburgh too. Some have been made into coffee shops.

I presume they are much bigger on the inside?

[Phil]

I presume they are much bigger on the inside?

They wouldn't be Tardi (Tardis's) otherwise would they?