Shall We Try Glasgow Some More?

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I have to do a post-work training session on Thursday, so I'll be ready for a swift half halfterwards.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

my thrice-postponed meeting with the editor at which i go "waugh waugh waugh" and he says "no" is now at 6.15pm on thursday so i'll be there by 7ish.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

It's been confirmed I'm up those days. More details to follow, I guess, but Friday 2nd or Saturday 3rd?

― I am not a crappy security guard on L O S T (much_aldo_about_nothing), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Madchen - Ailsa mentioned on the fitba thread that you used to frequent Milan. Any tips/places to see while I'm out there for the Sellic game in a fortnight?

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Are they actually going to play the match in Milan then? I'm behind on fitba news.

Are you flying to Bergamo? If so, I recommend spending the day there, then going on to Milan for the match. I wouldn't recommend Milan as a tourist destination, frankly. It's OK if you have a native to show you around, but I know so many people who wandered about, looking through shop windows at clothes they couldn't afford, then tried and failed to find a bar because they're all hidden away in weird places.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep, I think they've got it back to the full capacity now after doing some renovations - electronic turnstiles/robot pie and macaroon sellers etc.

We're flying to Verona (Brescia) with erm...Ryanair, and getting the train to Milan. Our hotel is right next to the main train station/main square(?) so quite handy for being pick-pocketed I'd imagine. I'd heard the bars were a bit out of the way from a few pals who were at the game vs AC about 2 yrs ago. I've got a few of them compiling a dossier on where the cheapest Asti can be sought.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Al, I'm flying out of Glasgow at stupid o'clock on the morning of Saturday the 3rd, so would like early doors Friday fappage with you please, or else earlier on that week (though googlage suggests you will be elsewhere on the Wednesday - consider me jealous of that, btw).

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

what could she mean?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I have been wanting to go to Nando's at Xscape for months now! I would also like to play the minigolf there. RJG & I are away to Paris a week tomorrow though.

― Cathy (RJG), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah shit, I think I'm supposed to being going to a friend's on Thursday for tea. I should really keep a diary so I can keep tabs on my whirlwind social life. Anyway, if there's a change of plans I'll let you know.

― Stewart Smith (Stew), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The mini-golf looks a bit rub, to be honest. Oh, it does have an Amazing Pie Company outlet within though.

(Pizza Express is the other food outlet. Don't let the Xscape website fool you into thinking they have a Cafe Rouge. They did, but it's been replaced by Bella Italia since we were last there. The cinema's still not open yet, which is annoying)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

More details to follow, I guess, but Friday 2nd or Saturday 3rd?

saturday 3rd is TRANS FUCKING AM at the ABC2 (with the inspiral carpets upstairs at ABC1; something is very wrong with that picture). and then i've got a housewarming party to go to.

with a "theme".

which is "childhood heroes".

my own personal theme will be "fuck that".

so anyway, yeh, friday 2 is better but it does depend on mrs f, who'll be coming back from sheffield that day ... hmm. i'll do my best.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Fucking hell, are there tickets left for Trans Am?

― I am not a crappy security guard on L O S T (much_aldo_about_nothing), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Tickets Scotland says yes.

http://www.tickets-scotland.com/booking.html?c=viewevent&event_id=7959

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

You're most likely to get stuck with a needle or picked up by a prossie around Centrale station, JohnFoxxxx. Brescia is also a bit of a dump, and not very close to Verona. Ah, northern Italy, how I miss you! Sorry this is not particularly helpful.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Hope to make it along to the drink-up on Thursday, what's the full name of the pub/bar pl?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Cheers for the tip! I think we're going to try Bergamo on the Tuesday

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

ward: it's called the pot still. on hope street, about halfway up. if you start at central station and head north, it's on your right before you get to the (closed, i think) kilt shop that used to be a print shop, and a couple of blocks before bath street.

be superb to see you.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I may manage along for a wee while tomorrow if my wife can sort someone to look after the kids

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

RJG i have an extra ticket for Robyn in London on March 2

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

:' ((((((((

wish I could, a lot

thought about it, even

leaving for paris next tues, unfortunately

hope it's great!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not coming to glasgow now. As you were.

― I am not a crappy security guard on L O S T (much_aldo_about_nothing), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

You're shite at this you know.

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

don't go RJG!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

is there a good weekend to visit glasgow in march (by good i mean have some good FAPPY type thing that hopefully involves dancing?)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i have long weekends that i have to use up and i remember glasgow weekends being FUN.

but then RJG is going away :(

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The weekend of the 24th would be good as I will be in the country. Weekend of 31st would have a Pop League on the Friday and would also, maybe, be good.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

will you be there that weekend of 31st? i might even know if i have a better job or not by then!

otherwise 24th is good as any!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks for the directions grimly, v. clear, see you there

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I will be, yes. I might even come out! (aw, I've been out the last couple of times you've been here)

Do not plan plans around me as I am notoriously unreliable about coming out. I might have a better job by then too! Hurrah!

xpost. Yay for people coming to the pub!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I just booked tickets for robyn in london on march 29!

maybe see you in london, ken!!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, count me back in for the Pot Still tomorrow. My friend has this cold that's doing the rounds so dinner is postponed. Go FAP!

― Stewart Smith (Stew), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Btw, I have my first shift in Oxfam books and music on Victoria Road tomorrow afternoon. Drop by if you're in the neighbourhood. :)

― Stew (Stew), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay Pot Still! Yay people! Yay hangover at work on Friday!

(are we still thinking about 7-ish, since no time has actually been decided, has it?)

xpost Yay Stew's new job!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, it's only voluntary, but I've always wanted to work in a record shop and foist my favourite records on the unsuspecting public, so yay indeed!
And yay Pot Still!

― Stewart Smith (Stew), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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