''It's daft,'' a man settled in a Glasgow pub said to me not long ago, talking about the sums that rare Scotch whiskies sometimes fetch at auction -- the bottle of Dalmore 64-year-old, for example, that sold last month for nearly $200,000. ''If you pay that much, you canna drink it, and wha's the use a just lookin' at the bottle?'' But just as...
A six-bedroom Victorian town house in the West End of Glasgow 875,000 pounds ($1.4 million) This three-story semidetached town house in the Victorian style is in the fashionable Kelvinside neighborhood in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.The West End is known for its Victorian and Edwardian architectural gems originally designed for...
Rob Hughes previews the outstanding matchups in soccer this weekend: Saturday Manchester City vs. Blackpool This game encapsulates the financial inequality within the English Premier League. City, funded from Abu Dhabi, is negotiating to pay tens of millions of pounds for yet another striker: Edin Dzeko from Wolfsburg. Blackpool is the Cinderella...
Glasgow er Skotlands største by, beliggende ved Clyde-floden i det vestlige Skotland. Byen har 580.690 indbyggere (2007). Glasgow er også en kommune. Folk fra Glasgow bliver på engelsk kaldt Glaswegians.