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 pre Madonna wrote:

I am afraid that most of my visits to Glasgow have neglected all higher culture completely, something I aim to put right later on this year. My first trip to Glasgow, at 17,  involved knocking on the window of Bairds at 8 in the morning and stayed remarkably consistent after that. Even when I lived there for about four months in 2003. 

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You will love Voltaire & Rousseau, I've taken friedns of mine there having told them about "the craziest bookshop you'll ever see" and their jaws just hit the floor when they walk in. 

It's located in Otago Lane in the West End. In fact it's one of a trio of great second hand bookshops in the immediate area.

Just get the Subway out to Kelvinbridge and your only a two minute walk away over the auld bridge ! 

As I say you'll have V&R on Otago Lane but just a hop, skip and jump round the corner is also Thistle Books on Otago Street, follow the signs as it's round a side entrance.

Thistle Books is a bloody brilliant secondhand bookshop and the old boy who looks after the place is a genuinely lovely guy too with an amazing knowledge of literature.

And round the corner from that on the Great Western Road is Caledonia Books. A bit more upmarket than V&R and Thistle Books but a great selection of books too. The owners will quite casually tell you about amazing antique books they've found or pull down a first edition work by Charles Dickens to show you.

Oh and the Transport Museum is a must. Though I must admit I preferred it much better when it was at Kelvin Hall. Love those auld trams and trains and the beautiful model ships  I think you would also really enjoy the social history that the People's Palace caters for.

Don't forget to indulge in some "people watching" at George Sq on the nice sunny days  I do it and I am not in the slightest bit ashamed of it because I am a nosey bastard !

Few people who come to Glasgow ever visit it but up at Robroyston is a small monument you might like to visit. 

A monument commemorating that on or near that site on August 5th 1305, the greatest Scot of all - Sir William Wallace - was betrayed to an English patrol by John de Mentieth and taken to London for trial, whose authority he refused to recognise, and to suffer a horrific, slow, brutal execution. There are usually some flowers that people have left always lying at it.