MY 5 HAPPY PLACES around Glasgow, and why one left me SAD. Art, culture, travel and history.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- I actually can't remember what inspired me to make this video. I think I was lying in bed, and I thought of one of the happy places which was eventually mentioned in the video, and thought of others. They all came to me very quickly, and there are probably many others. This personal journey takes you to outer space and aliens, Glasgow airport, Scotland's largest train station, a little painting by Salvador Dali and an aborted trip to the tropics.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:29 Paisley Abbey
00:02:10 Glasgow
00:03:30 Glasgow Central Station
00:05:26 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
00:08:20 The Winter Gardens
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Glasgow Central is also my happy place. Blows me away every time I go there. Shame about the winter gardens. They are stunning
Thanks Mary. I was gutted about the Winter Gardens. I knew they had been closed due to Covid restrictions, but when Glasgow City Council opened up the Peoples Palace, I had assumed the gardens would open as well. Oh well.
The whole of Glasgow is my happy place 😊
Wow awesome
Thank you Scott - happy places are great!👍
Scott you're doing wonders for the Scottish tourist board. I enjoy your trips and overseas adventures very much and look forward to reading of your M.B.E. from a grateful Scotland one day!
Glasgow central station is my favourite station
It's an amazing place, isn't it. Have you done the tour?
@@PlanesTrainsEverything No is it good
I have on my bucket list to see that Salvador Dali painting in real life as it is my favorite one of his
Nice, very lovely and interesting places to visit. I never thought that a station could ever end up as tourist attraction.
I loved it when there was a spirally ramp that took you onto the platforms at Glasgow central to park your car. That was my happy place. And the dream I might one day stay in the wooden hotel built into the wall..
Thanks for showing us around your favorite places. It's great to see the sights from a personal viewpoint. Keep it up!
Thanks for your kind comment. With Covid continually affecting everyone's lives, I thought a small video on happy places might cheer people up a little.
@@PlanesTrainsEverything Right now we need all the cheering up we can get! Thanks again.
Thank you for taking me along for your happy places video. I suppose I should have spent more time in Glasgow after the arrival at the airport and explored the Museum and Winter Gardens back in May 22. Time to fly over the Big Pond and continue the journey...hope the Winter Gardens are open? Take care☕
he tour of Glasgow Central is truly interesting!
On a serious note, I was in glesgee in Jan 2020, yeh pre- covi, when I stumbled across a free walking tour, really recommend it, it made me realize there and then that Scotland isnt all about auld reekie' Edinburgh'
Went back in Aug 2020, bad timing had to spend 10 days in quarantine, but surprisingly due to our Airbnb being in Alexander parade,we spent a great deal of time in the local park. What a wonderful place! Due to restrictions we had to live out of the local Coop, living mainly on Scottish pies+ steak pies. Oh and the odd fish supper. Did have 1day out,in Ayr, Spanish wife was impressed.
Plan to return to glasgee soon.
Very interesting and well made doco. Although it's a long time since I've been in Glasgow, I'd agree with you choices. Thank you.
I haven't been to the Winter Gardens yet, but did visit the Botanical gardens, and those are also quite nice.
Kelvingrove Is one of my happy places too. I visited there a few years ago to listen to the amazing Estonian Philharmonic Chamber choir and it created an incredibly powerful core memory for me. I am working through your back catalogue of content and enjoying your content immensely.
I traveled back and forth too. Aww the sign in purple is gone. Pure Deed Brilliant. I would have to agree with you on everything but I also would add the Coats and Clark Church in Paisley. The architecture is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing. So many changes have taken place since we lived there. Husband is from Paisley. There used to be a museum there too that had some of Queen Victoria's beautiful dresses with the paisley design. Still love it. Beautiful video. Wow do we miss home.
Every Sunday in my childhood, we went to the kelvingrove in the summer and the peoples palace in winter. Thanks for these.
Hi Scott. I’m visiting Glasgow for a few days and visited Kelvingrove Art gallery and the Peoples Palace today mainly based on this video. I can see why they’re your happy place. Both are fantastic places to visit. Enjoyed looking at the history of Glasgow at the People’s Palace and so many interesting artefacts in Kelvongrove although somewhat ironically the picture of Christ of Saint John of the Cross has been loaned out to another museum until December!! Oh well will give me a reason to pay another visit to Glasgow in the future!! Lol
Another great wee video. I'd move to Glasgow tomorrow if I didn't have commitments down south. I used to live in Blanefield and have many happy memories of the city. My five special places would be #1 the view from near the Gowk Stane, overlooking Strathblane with views of Glengoyne and north to Ben Lomond: #2 Kelvingrove Art Gallery, where we used to go every Saturday afternoon in the 1980s to hear a friend play the magnificent Lewis pipe organ: #3 St Bride's (Scottish Episcopal) Church, Kelvinside (actually, now in Hyndland after an argument with the owner of the Kelvinside estate) - I spent many happy hours in this Bodley-designed church, with interesting stained glass, silver by the Director of the Glasgow School of Art and inlaid mother-of-pearl cupboards in the sacristy: #4 The Botanic Gardens and the Kibble Palace (not as large as the Winter Garden at the People's Palace, but I love its sinuous lines): #5 Kingsborough Gardens, Hyndland, with handsome Victorian/Edwardian townhouses in Dumfries-shire red sandstone on either side and beautiful Glasgow Style glass (and which are forbidden from being subdivided).
Unfortunately the Lewis Pipe organ is off limits at the moment. Hopefully they will start playing is once Covid settles down. After the disappointment of The Winter Gardens, that put me in the mood for a trip to the Botanical Gardens. I haven't been there for years.
Enjoyed your personal choices.
My favourite happy place in Glasgow now makes me very sad to think about.
The Glasgow School of Art building, as was. Outside and in.
So I remember it as it was.
No mention of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in his home city is disappointing.
Queens Cross Church is a very happy place. A feast for the eyes.
Always impressed by you thank you for sharing your happy places 😁😁😁❤❤❤❤
Thanks Mary. As long as it's fun, and people appreciate the work that goes into these videos, that's all the reward I need.
Thank you for taking us along
Hi rusty hope your well big fan of your two chnles must say never really left a comment on them but yea like parts of Glasgow maself when aye visit there am from Edinburgh maself and have ma favourite parts there also Arthur's seat is one of them bottom of leith and all that and few more in mind . But yea love scotland love edinburgh alot of secrets and hidden areas to see... Great vid
Thanks very much for your kind comment.
Vale! I regarded art gallery as my home. Dali very extrovert figure, always dressed as businessman, reflective in Emporda caffs. Why did he get so attached to Emporda where he created his fishing viillage house? There is something fundamental here, his paintings of coast are stunning.
If all goes according to plans I will visit Glasgow in November and many of your favorite places are on my list. I did saw in a guide book that the glass house at the People's palace was closed for restoration work.
Hi Pierre - yes, I was so disappointed to see it was closed. You can't even get to the windows and look in.
@@PlanesTrainsEverything I was there last month and the Winter Gardens are still closed.
How about a video on Paisley? Have you made one and I have missed it?
Visited this year and despite some hard times its a magnificent place.
Hi mate. A lovely vlog, thank you so much! But the way things are going nationally, any reference to Empire and greatness is frowned on and will have disclaimers on all paintings and statues only showing the negativity of said individuals! And certainly no reference to Glasgow being the second city of the empire! 🏴🇬🇧
Hi Scott, just been viewing some of your Glasgow based videos and seen that the Winter Gardens were closed at your visit. Have you seen the shocking pictures of the inside during the alleged refurbishment. They let everything die! There is nothing left at all. Someone should be held accountable for this outrage. Neil.
I am surprised that you didn’t mention the botanic gardens which are excellent or the original university!
My happy place is…paradise..or as it’s more commonly know…Celtic Park.
Honorable mention for George Square and the Botanical Gardens?
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Hi there, just discovered your videos so am now working my way thru your Scottish ones! Quick question please? Do you find train travel fairly safe? The reason I ask is, as a solo traveller, I am wondering how paranoid I need to be when on a train with my luggage and then I want to go to the bathroom! Obviously I keep my crucial things on my person, but should I lock my bag to a seat while I nip to the toilet or wander to take a photo or two?! Cheers from Australia
Salvaor Dali. A pure catalan. He dressed up for important events.Frequently i saw him in native town, always impeccably dressed in navy blue suit, matching shirt and tie Buried in own theatre in santified frontier town of Figueras, noi destacat.
Do you think you'll post a 3rd timetable challenge?
Are you reading my mind? I've already got one on paper, and it involves crossing the border into England. I'm not sure if/when I'll do it, but if I do, you were the first to hear about it!
Looking forward to seeing it. If you ever need any small bits of photography doing I am more than willing to lend a hand I am only based 10 minutes east of Ardrossan
One year on and the Winter gardens is just a derelict mess now.
So yr not a big fan of my No 1 happy place ' botanical gardens' ah well each to his own.
Your from Paisley? I think you have ‘acquired’ someone else’s accent over time.
I was born in Paisley, but that's what happens to your accent when you grow up and spend 25 years of your life in Australia. People can never really pinpoint where I'm from. Even when using an Aussie accent in Sydney, people could still detect a twang.
Ricordi. Glesga, Pesli, Quercetta Verde. Interviewed in Pesli, rejected initially. In Pesli can I get a guid coffees? Pesli listed as one of worstt venues
Lots of your talk was drowned out by background traffic noise!!!