Scotland
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As someone who runs a blog specifically about weird/offbeat attractions, I have to confess that I found Edinburgh a lot more… pedestrian than Glasgow. It’s still a great city, don’t get me wrong! I loved Edinburgh Zoo and the Harryhausen exhibition, but I found it a bit tricky to find anything in Edinburgh that wasn’t…
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Context! If you’ve never heard of Ray Harryhausen, you may well have seen some of his work. If you haven’t seen any of his films, you’ve definitely, absolutely seen something influenced by him. Or maybe you’ve just seen snippets in the Malcolm in the Middle intro. Ray Harryhausen wasn’t an actor, writer or director –…
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I like (good) zoos a lot – on every long trip I take, I try to visit at least one. But they’re not really offbeat attractions in of themselves – at least until someone opens a zoo full of dinosaurs, which I don’t think could end badly. Nonetheless I wanted to write about it anyway,…
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Glasgow is a lovely city. In the time I spent there, I saw a few things that were really cool/worth talking about, but didn’t merit an entire blog post. Haggis! Liechtenstein! Sectarianism! Read on!!! #1 – A Really Mean Simulator 🛵 Perhaps it’s just because its inventor Sir Clive Sinclair died literally yesterday (at time…
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Context! Mostly famous these days from a quote by someone else, David Livingstone was a Victorian Christian missionary who made several expeditions into Central Africa, recording the horrors of the slave trade there. He did help to pressure the British Empire into curtailing the Arab slavers in the region, and he was the first European…
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Context! The Hunterian Museum, part of the University of Glasgow, is the best University museum I’ve seen outside of Oxbridge. It’s a really beautiful building, free to enter, and has exhibits on basically everything. The Hunterian Collection is over two hundred years old, and has picked up some wild exhibits in its time. Some of…
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Context! Britain as a whole has never had a good reputation for food, and this is especially true of our neighbours to the North. I actually think this is pretty unfair, but a long essay about why I think Yorkshire puddings and shortbread are genuinely top tier eats would be really boring to read. Also…
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