If you really want to get on someones goat in Glasgow

If you really want to get someone angry in Glasgow...

All you have to do is ask a Black Cab (Taxi, Hak) to drive you from Glasgow Central Train Station to Glasgow Queen Street Station... Even in your friendliest voice and in your best manners... they will still look at you as though you have just landed from the moon... (even if the rain is pelting down and you have a gammy ankle)... Cheers, wee lazy taxi man...

I had an injury recently and asked a taxi driver to take me out of the rain and to an appointment as I was late... and he refused to take me, that has happened on a number of occasions in Glasgow (probably happens all over the place)...

Is is pretty close, in fact if I was not injured I would not have bothered asking him for a lift... I must have looked as though I was going to rob him of all of his money...

The fact is that the taxi driver looses his place in the rank cue and has to start all over again... if you were going for a 10 mile tip then it is worth his time but... I would have tipped him well, but he does not know that at the time I suppose...

I now try and avoid using Black Cabs anywhere in the City just because of a few crabit drivers I have had... but most of the guys are cool enough. (just in case I have to get a taxi one night and the driver has read this blog... woooops)

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Corinthian Glasgow - Bar, Piano Bar, Food and Club

The Corinthian in Glasgow is a pretty posh looking bar at Ingram Street, just across from one of the cruise shop and I think the Versage shop. The building looks amazingly impressive from both the outside and inside. The place is really well kept and looks pretty cool.

There is a main bar which is very spacious (it is huge), the bar sits in the centre of a beautiful room and seems to charge above the average for the city centre.

There is a piano bar on the right as you enter and the main bar is strait through the back, as well as a club upstairs (I think). We were in the Corinthian to celebrate Neil’s 40^th Birthday. The toilets are a fair bit away down the stairs.

I had quite a good night, it was a bit pricey though and probably because of the time of year (just after New Year) it was pretty quiet too, the company was pretty good too, and there was a good mix of people there.

I really like the look of the Corinthian in Glasgow but it is just such a large open room with huge high ceilings that it takes away from the atmosphere a bit. I looked at other reviews on the internet and it scored just above average, but I suppose you never really know what people are into who have left comments and a rating on a web site...

The Corinthian Glasgow

191 Ingram Street,

Glasgow,

G1 1DN

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New Year at Arta

We had a good night for the bells, taking us into the new year in the Red Room in Glasgow's Bar, Club and Restaurant Arta.

The night went pretty well, meet loads of people from ages ago and caught up with a few folk we see a bit more often. If you look closely at the photo of the Red Room on the left you can spot one of the lamp shades that loads of folks used as a hat for a bit... (lol).

The bar was pretty hard to get served at all night because there was only one guy serving in our bar... (just before the bells we missed being served a drink when the bar shut without warning for ten fifteen minutes to see the bells in). The buffet was really tasty and I want to go back for food there one day soon, I really got tucked in... (yummy)

It was a good enough night though... the music was a mix of stuff and I had quite a good jig about at one point. There are a few photo's of one and all on a number of people's Bebo pages...

Unfortunately our camera battery had died before we even got the the Craig Dhu in Paisley to catch the mini bus up.

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