Glasgow information
useful information about Glasgow
The City of Glasgow, and indeed the whole Greater Glasgow & Clyde Valley area is one of Europe's most exciting and beautiful destinations, which combines the energy and sophistication of a great international city with some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery.
Glasgow is such a diverse, architecturally stunning, vibrant and cultural city that throughout this website we have only been able to preview some of the many many highlights to be enjoyed here. As they say, ‘If it’s happening in Scotland, it's happening in Glasgow’.
And Glasgow is a city with big ambitions too. In the world of sport, that ambition is now directed towards a bid by the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland to host the 20th Commonwealth Games in 2014, in Scotland, in Glasgow.
And throughout the site we have drawn attention to a number of useful links particularly for eating out and enjoying the vibrant city of Glasgow, its culture, architecture, great sporting events, shopping, and best attractions. Here we provide a summary, a little compendium for your convenience.
We do hope you find it useful. If we can provide any further assistance towards your next visit to or stay in Glasgow, visit the contact us page
Travel
Coaches, trains, tubes and taxis
www.ga-taxis.co.uk
Taxis and chauffeur drive from Glasgow airport throughout Scotland
www.scotland-carhire.co.uk
Car hire in Glasgow and Glasgow Airport
www.citylink.co.uk
Coaches to and from Glasgow throughout Scotland
www.scotrail.co.uk
Train timetables for Glasgow Queen Street and Central station
www.virgintrains.co.uk
Train travel to Glasgow from London and the south
www.gner.com
Train travel to Glasgow from London, Edinburgh and the south
www.spt.co.uk
Local bus timetables for Glasgow city
clyde-valley.com
for the Underground railway
Main airlines flying into Glasgow Airport
www.ba.com
British Airways flights to Glasgow Airport
www.easyjet.com
Easyjet Flights to Glasgow and Edinburgh
www.flybmi.com
British Midland flights to Glasgow Airport
www.flyglobespan.com
Flyglobespan flights to and from Glasgow Airport
www.icelandair.com
Icelandair flights to Glasgow form Iceland and USA
www.flybe.com
British European flights to/from Glasgow Airport
www.bmibaby.com
B MI Baby internal flights to/from Glasgow
www.loganair.co.uk
Flights to the Scottish islands
www.continental.com
Flights to and from the USA
Area
Great places to visit
KelvingroveArt Gallery and Museum
www.glasgowmuseums.com
Botanic Gardens -
www.glasgow.gov.uk
Burrell Collection - www.glasgowmuseums.com
Glasgow Cathedral -
www.glasgowcathedral.org.uk/
The College of Piping –
www.thepipingcentre.co.uk
Gallery of Modern Art -
www.glasgowmuseums.com
Glasgow Police Museum -
www.strathclyde.police.uk
Heatherbank Museum -
www.lib.gcal.ac.uk
Heritage Engineering -
www.mcconnel.co.uk
Hutcheson's Hall -
www.geo.ed.ac.uk
People's Palace and Winter Gardens -
www.glasgowmuseums.com
Pollok House -
www.glasgowmuseums.com
Provand's Lordship -
www.glasgowmuseums.com
Scotland Street School Museum of Education -
www.glasgowmuseums.com
Scottish Football Museum -
www.scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk
Springburn Heritage Trail -
gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk
St Mungo Museum -
www.glasgowmuseums.com
The Tenement House -
www.nts.org.uk
Transport Museum -
www.glasgowmuseums.com
Really useful information
www.usefulinfo.co.uk
Scottish Roots - Scotland’s foremost firm of genealogical researchers, having traced over 10,000 Scottish family trees over the last 21 years.
Shopping
Buchanan Galleries
www.buchanangalleries.co.uk
Princes Square
www.princessquare.co.uk
Braehead Shopping Centre
www.braehead.co.uk
Weather
There is so much to see, do and enjoy, in the city of Glasgow itself - and Greater Glasgow, Clyde Valley, Loch Lomond, Ayrshire and the surrounding areas - and throughout the whole of Central Scotland - even in the unlikely event of inclement weather !
For summaries of immediate prospects and outlooks for a further four to five days. ...click on the link below.
www.bbc.co.uk
For a second opinion, a ‘rain check’, look at
www.metoffice.gov.uk
www.glasgowguide.co.uk
Overview of Glasgow weather
Glasgow is on the same latitude as Moscow but because it is close to the warm Atlantic Ocean shores and lies in the path of a prevailing westerly wind, it has a significantly more moderate climate. Glasgow in fact enjoys a very stable climate with quite warm summers and mild winters. Glasgow - and the west of Scotland - tends to be more cloudier than the rest of the country, however, the city is also warmer than most of Scotland as it is sheltered by hills to the north and south-west.
Entertainment
Sport
Rangers Football Club
www.rangers.co.uk
Celtic Football Club
www.celticfc.co.uk
Partick Thistle Football Club
www.ptfc.co.uk
Hamilton Park Racecourse
www.hamilton-park.co.uk
Sports centres and facilities -
www.glasgow.gov.uk
Entertainment
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
www.grch.com
Kings Theatre
www.kings-glasgow.co.uk
Tron theatre
www.tron.co.uk
UGC Cinema Glasgow www.ugccinemas.co.uk
Odeon Cinemas
www.odeon.co.uk
