If you have been to the wet and wild west coast of Scotland, then Irvine is the third place you will have stopped, after Ayr and, if the Viking festival is on, then Largs, too. Irvine is pretty. It’s seaside pretty… yellow and red striped deck chairs and chips in the rain. It’s like Ayr…
Wishaw was once a North Lanarkshire industrial powerhouse before the steel mills closed and it was forced to seek a new identity. The one place in Scotland that is greyer than the overcast sky. There is a theory that Wishaw high street is where shops come to die. It definitely has an ‘end-of-the-world’ feel to…
Clydebank is exactly where you think it is… on the banks of the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire. Although there are several other towns and cities perched on the banks of the Clyde, this is the only one that couldn’t think of any other name. It’s in West Dunbartonshire, although it has the Glasgow postcode…
Cambuslang is a nice place, we natives like it particularly because there are trees there. It sounds stupid, but there comes a point where you hit this radius around Glasgow where the only trees are in ‘scheduled’ parks and specific areas. Cambuslang marks both the start and the end of this line… depending on your…
Rutherglen is in South Lanarkshire, although it is could be in Glasgow given it has a Glasgow postcode. However, in 1996 it was designated South Lanarkshire and given a County Council of its own. In short: nobody knows what Rutherglen is anymore… not even the place itself. It might be a town, it might be…
Sheffield is a city filled with architectural wonders; but outside of the concrete and stone lies a green area, filled with trees, parks, wild fields, and unforgettable views. When people visit big cities, they sometimes forget what lies underneath the surface of the buildings that have been erected over the past few hundred years. One…