Things to do and see in Edinburgh

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If you play it I'll definitely come!

Actually how easy is it to get to Glasgow and back in a night? My friend's band are playing there on the 7th and I'd like to go, but I don't want to be stranded in Glasgow in the middle of the night. I hear it's cold.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

Is your friend in Chicks on Speed?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:15 (twenty years ago) link

ah no, possibly I have the wrong date. He's in cat on form. I wish he was in Chicks on Speed though. That would be cool. Although they might have to change the name.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:16 (twenty years ago) link

Last train back from Glasgow is not really feasible if it's a late / club show. you can make it back from Barrowlands shows easily enough by train. There used to be buses all night, but I don't know if these lasted. But everyone in Glasgow is used to having folk crash on their floors. At least, everyone I know there is.

Since I now work in Glasgow, which side of the FAP divide would I really be on?

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

7th is also the Winchester Club, incidentally...

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:27 (twenty years ago) link

7th is also when I'm in utrecht, incidentally...

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:31 (twenty years ago) link

What do you want, a medal?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

sympathy.

and a medal.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:40 (twenty years ago) link

I went travelling around the Netherlands last year.
Utrecht?
No, we hired bicycles.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

things to do and see in Glasgow.

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

go to the black rabbit whorehouse

:-P

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:31 (twenty years ago) link

If someone suggests a suitable time and a place I will do my best to turn up and FAP...although I may be slightly intimidated coz y'all know each other already!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:20 (twenty years ago) link

Wow, I didn't realise there were suddenly so many ILXors in Edinburgh.

(My favourite pub was the Holyrood Tavern. But it's just closed. Sob. Cloisters (as mentioned by alext) is nice, though - it's something I've never seen before, a real ale pub with bright lighting).

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

Blimey -- the Holyrood Tavern gone? Edinburgh is haunted by the ghosts of many great pubs. Like The Green Tree, a concrete block-house on the Cowgate which was obliterated (literally) to make way for the unremittingly horrible Siglo.

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

i remember it well alext

i think the Holyrood is to be 'modernised' rather than demolished - it only shut a couple of weeks ago i think, with a big hoo-ha last night thingy

(and was actually open last weekend again due to a delay in transfer to new owner!)

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

you should go and see Greyfriars Bobby's statue and Greyfriars Bobby's grave, and then go for a drink in Greyfriars Bobby's Bar.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:50 (twenty years ago) link

I was told never to drink in Bobby's by someone who used to work there because they were ordered to empty slop trays into pints, but this was a long time ago, and I'm sure that can't be the case now, especially if there are any lawyers reading this.

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

mmmm, slops.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

Stop pretending to be Neddy.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

Oi.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

Would that story about the slops be related - by any chance - to the one about the mini kievs?

― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

Oi.

You too, stop pretending to be Neddy!

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

Grr, grr! Lara is mean and lays the smackdown.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:14 (twenty years ago) link

Edinburgh is colder than Glasgow.

Apparently Cat On Form are staying at my house. I do not really know who they are.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

oh really? Well I only know steve a little tiny bit but he is a nice bloke, as are the others, apparently. They're into all crazy hardcore fugazi shirtless antics on stage, but presumably nobody is hardcore all the time.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

you haven't ever met cozen.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

richard, you are the king of the non sequitur.

― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

They look just like Ally and RJG's kind of boyz! Sweet dreams!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:15 (twenty years ago) link

ooooh they look a bit like my kinda boys!

― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link

wait, why are they staying at my house?

: ((

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:39 (twenty years ago) link

My guess is they know Dave.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 10:37 (twenty years ago) link

that is neither here nor there. and dave is neither here nor there, either.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:00 (twenty years ago) link

Send them round to N. and see what they make of the granite effect bath and tasteful uplighting...

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

seriously, as dave would say, I am not best pleased about this.

they will not get sleeping bags.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

I think you should also take down the montage of THE BOSS for fear of it being damaged.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

turns out marcy knows them, too, and swears that they are, like, "the nicest guys." they're from brighton and, last time they stayed w/ marcy, they brought lots of food that they'd made.

friday and monday [or, maybe, sunday] nights, apparently. I don't know about sleeping bags, still.

http://cobweb.businesscollaborator.com/photo/2002/020907%20The%20Zodiac/tCat06.jpg

kathryn m, are you actually coming to glasgow on friday?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

er, not sure. I only just found out that they were playing there but I would like to. I know steve a little bit because he used to go out with one of my best friends, he's really nice.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

oh shit, actually I just remembered that I'm supposed to be singing in the royal albert hall that night. Oh well, it was a nice idea.

I would tell you to say hello from me but that might be kind of weird given that:

1. We don't know each other
2. I don't know steve and dan that well
3. The whole 'well, this girl that I don't know but that I spoke to on the interweb...' conversation might be a tad confusing.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

This is the worst excuse I have ever heard.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:46 (twenty years ago) link

CHUCK BERRY, MOFO.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah I know I could have come up with something better but I was in a rush. Actually I just don't want to go anywhere near Glasgow.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Thursday, 30 October 2003 08:30 (twenty years ago) link

People are going to have to list some good Glasgow bars for me, or else I will have to keep going to the CCA and Republic Bierhalle, as I did last night, on the basis that I know them to be good. Perhaps we need another thread for that, but I like the idea of Edinburgh / Glasgow miscegenation

― alext (alext), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link

I like Uisge Beatha on the Woodlands Road. It has good sturdy seats, casual lighting and it serves booze - all you could ask for of a bar, excepting dancing girls with plumed feather on their heads.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

Am I being excluded from the Glasgow FAP possibilities on the grounds that I have emigrated to Renfrewshire? Or because you all hate me?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think there are any possibilities, are there? Have you moved away *away*?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:53 (twenty years ago) link

No, I live where I always lived (but I used to live nearer if you see what I mean).

RJG said me and ally and nick see each other pretty often so do they count as FAPs? I think I am exempt from arranging FAPs because I know two of the, like, five people that might come

Which made me paranoid and invisible and stuff. I guess Madchen may feel this way if she weren't less prone to paranoia than me. Unless we're the two people he knows over and above the other two people he already mentioned, but he knows Cozen too...RJG knows everyone! He's just pretending he doesn't...and I am paranoid.

Someone who doesn't know anyone else in Glasgow to thread to organise FAPping action...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

I could organise a travelling FAP for next week. I proabably won't have much time so Gracelands Bar?!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

I did notice, Ailsa - I am just way too scared to cross RJG.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link

I just understood Lara's post! (nb I have actually being off doing other stuff, not just pondering it). Gracelands Bar is shit.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 October 2003 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know any of you but I haff tried and failed to organise a FAP before and the humilliation is still with me......*weeps quietly*

― smee (smee), Friday, 31 October 2003 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

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timberyard is alright too but can be fussy & pricey

― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Monday, 14 October 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link

https://www.timberyard.co
https://brossbagels.com
http://www.marysmilkbar.com

― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Monday, 14 October 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link

Glasgow, aye.. Nae this time.

Scran & Scallie looks really nice, thanks! (reservations through the website looks easy enough)

Thanks!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 14 October 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link

The Gardener's Cottage has my favourite tasting menu in the city - https://www.thegardenerscottage.co/ - real local focus on ingredients.

Pizzeria 1926 - cheap but by far my favourite Edinburgh pizza joint - Neapolitan-style with excellent flavour combinations.

Pera - not quite haute cuisine but perfect if you're super hungry for delectable selections of Turkish food served by a gent.

― knowing for certain the first touch of the light will finish you (fionnland), Monday, 14 October 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link

I should note Pera is also BYOB with £2.50 corkage which may have influenced why I am so fond of it.

― knowing for certain the first touch of the light will finish you (fionnland), Monday, 14 October 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link

Ohh, Gardener's Cottage certainly looks the part! Jotted down these suggestions with some fierce, thanks all!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 14 October 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link

this place was great when I visited http://educatedflea.co.uk/

― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Monday, 14 October 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link

Scran & Scallie, Gardener's Cottage and Educated Flea are all 1.5 miles away from my hotel, which is a pretty perfect walking distance to and fro if you ask me!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 14 October 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link

Had a great time. We ended up eating somewhere else, but we did stumble upon the Brauhaus, a small but cosy pub with a staggering selection of around 300 beers. Recommended!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link

Brauhaus looks great. Excellent to see some quality cider options on the list too.

For those in Edinburgh with kids, someone I know just wrote this, which could be a handy compendium of ideas, both well-known and otherwise : https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/oct/22/city-breaks-with-kids-edinburgh-family-trip-museum-beach

― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link

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