Glasgow, Clyde Valley Holiday Accommodation

Glasgow is blessed with amenities which cover a wide range of cultural activities, from curling to opera and from football to art appreciation.

Glasgow boasts a fine selection of museums that include those devoted to transport , religion , and modern art . The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has an excellent collection of paintings including many old masters, French Impressionists etc. The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery , by the University of Glasgow, has the best collection of Whistler paintings in the world. The Burrell Collection is an eclectic collection of art and antiquities donated to the city by William Burrell . It is housed in a museum situated in the Pollok Country Park . The People's Palace museum reflects the history of the city and its people, focussing on the working class of Glasgow.

Glasgow people have a unique sense of humour, and strong loyalty to their own city. The Glasgow Patter is a brand of local humorous Scots dialect which is hilarious to those who understand it, usually only natives of the city.

Billy Connolly has done a lot to make Glaswegian humour known to the rest of the world but, inevitably, it loses something in translation. In fact Glaswegian is a rich and vital living dialect which gives a true reflection of the city with all its virtues and vices. It is more than an alternative pronunciation; words also change their meaning, e.g. "away" can mean "leaving" as in A'm awa , an instruction to stop being a nuisance as in awa wi ye , or drunk as in he's awa wi it . Canna means "can't", canny means "careful". Pieces refers to "snacks", normally slices of bread. Ginger refers to any form of soft drink. Then there are words that appear to have no obvious relationship to standard English, words like coupon which means "face"; historically derived from to punch a ticket coupon .