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and we already can't wait to go back again in this video we arrived to Glasgow Scotland
we're Beyond excited to explore the city eat delicious food and maybe have a pint or two I'm
Anna and this is Trevor in this series we're exploring the UK make sure to hit subscribe
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well good morning everyone and welcome to Glasgow Scotland it has been at least eight
years since we have been in the UK and Scotland for that matter we're particularly in Scotland
in Glasgow we're now on our own to explore for the a couple of weeks here in the UK but starting
these off here in Glasgow so funny enough this is not our first time here in Glasgow but it is
our first time filming this is a fun little story for those of you that have been watching us for a
very long time the very first time that we ever filmed that we ever really picked up a camera
and started this whole YouTube Journey we started in and ended here in Glasgow we basically landed
on a plane and then got on a train and went to Edinburgh and on our way out back to Canada we
had one night here and we fell in love with the city but just like very very quickly we had no
time here we couldn't wait to come back so eight eight years later so excited and the thing is we
actually didn't film no we didn't film anything we didn't we just didn't have enough time and we
were really exhausted by the end of like our first ever three week trip that we ever took you guys
probably noticed this massive Cathedral behind us here this is the Glasgow Cathedral and get this
it was built between are you ready 1136 and 1484 it's now Scotland's largest place of worship and
honestly it is just massive so this Cathedral is in the Gothic architecture style it looks really
cool inside but I tried to look up the rules for filming which some of you might not know
in certain places can be a little bit tricky and it sounds like we need permission in order to film
in there so we're not going in today I would have loved to but I think we would have had
to plan that a little while in advance you also can't really see it from here but the tower in
the back is under construction does that seem to happen to everyone else whenever they go anywhere
in the summertime to like these famous places and it's always under construction so one thing that's
kind of neat about where the cathedral is is right next to it is this impressive Cemetery yeah it's
called the Glasgow necropolis you can kind of see a glimpse of it when you're over over at the uh
Cathedral and it's built kind of on a hill so it looks really neat maybe to some people this seems
a little morbid I'm not sure but we've been to some impressive graveyards or cemeteries around
the world so we always try to make it a point to stop at them this one's interesting because look
there is the location of the cathedral and then right behind me we're starting to climb you can
see kind of like these walls and really big Graves up there so I would say even if you're not into
visiting cemeteries it's worth coming up here just for the views alone plus you get a little bit of
exercise because you have to walk up the hill but once you're up here if you are into the cemetery
thing there are lots of beautiful tombs and monuments here it's a little bit haunting a little
bit quiet it's really nice I really don't know my Scottish history that well so I don't really
recognize any names but at least so far anyway but apparently this cemetery is full of very famous
glass regions regions what the heck is a glass wedge and that's the first time I've ever heard
of that apparently that's what you call people from Glasgow and I was actually reading a that
a kind of slaying funny term that you call them for short is a Ouija a Ouija a Ouija it almost
sounds like we I've insult someone if I call them is that insulting that's what I read online so if
that's very in insulting term I'm sorry trying to figure out what to call people from the city
that they're from is always interesting like if you would have asked me and didn't say that
I would have said like glasgonians or something because we're from Halifax in Nova Scotia not in
the UK and we call ourselves halogonians and glasgonians seems to work but glass regions
ouija's I like it take a look at the size of this one this belongs to Walter McFarland from
1885 that just blows my mind most of the graves up here are from the 1800s now here's what I
like about this place besides all the beautiful Graves there's a beautiful Green Space here with
walking paths you can just walk for a very long time you're gonna get tired doing so because of
that you're gonna work up an appetite and speaking of that we're hungry it's time to get some food
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we have just come over to a place called Merchant chippy and I just learned that chippy is a short
term for a place to sell fish and chips here in Scotland however today we are not eating fish
and chips I'm sure we'll have them in a future video but the nice thing about chippies is that
they sell lots of very Scottish foods different types of Scottish foods so today we got a couple
of things and we are starting with a scotch hi I have no idea how to eat this I just kind of
dug into it but I actually assumed this would be a hand tie it's not however that so we're gonna
eat it with a fork I was reading about the the history of these they were traditionally made
with mutton but nowadays it's more so either beef or lamb should we explain what mutton is I think
some people might not know I don't even know because I guess it's cheap it's cheap I believe
yeah let's see how it is try it out foreign so I couldn't tell you what type of meat this is
actually made with maybe it's beef maybe it's lamb maybe it is mutton I'm not really sure but
whatever it is it is honestly delicious it's very very Savory it's very very hearty a little bit
salty it kind of reminds me of like stuffing or dressing that you would have with turkey dinner
at home in Canada it's really good how do you possibly take something that is unhealthy and
make it even more unhealthy will I have the answer for you this is a Mars bar that has
been deep fried yes I deep-fried Mars Bar it's a Scottish thing apparently I've never heard of
it we've never heard of this all I know is it looks really intense I've never even who would
have thought about deep frying a chocolate bar a Mars bar for that matter but we're gonna try
this so it doesn't look super appetizing I'm gonna feel very gluttonous and very unhealthy
but you know we just got to take a bite of this glorious looking thing let's go for it
wow so they clearly put batter on the outside of this thing and because it goes in the deep
fryer it's such a high heat it actually melts the bar so it ends up being this really gooey
caramelly chocolate mess of deliciousness look at that thing I mean you all probably know what
a Mars bar tastes like it is one of the better chocolate bars but I didn't realize it would
get even better if you just deep fry the thing see maybe the Magic The Magic ingredient here
is what it's kind of like the batter but I don't know you guys this is so good it kind of sticks
to your teeth on the inside it's all melted oh yeah I didn't think I was going to eat all this
when we started because it was too much but this is all mine I'm not sharing with Anna at all so
we are just making our way into the city center it's really fun to walk around and see all this
historic stuff there's like this clock tower kind of thing right behind me we're just eating right
under that basically but before we get where we're going let's talk about a few facts for you you
probably already know that Edinburgh is in fact the capital of Scotland not Glasgow but Glasgow is
the bigger city it has almost 2 million people in the entire metropolitan area it is as I just said
the biggest city in Scotland but it's also the third biggest city by population in the entire UK
well it doesn't take long to find bagpipers around Scotland that's for sure were you
actually in Scotland if you didn't hear any bagpiper exactly now right now we're on some
kind of uh walking pedestrian street but we need to go back to Edinburgh for a second so you just
mentioned that uh that city is absolutely gorgeous we're not going back to it this
time around on this journey because we've been before but we find a bit more touristy
than here it is so I would say Edinburgh is super beautiful definitely a more beautiful
city in Glasgow 100 more visually beautiful like the buildings and the architecture it's
kind of the gem when it comes for tourists anyway but we were just discussing there's
something about Glasgow that feels a little bit more maybe authentic or like it feels like we're
like it feels like uh yeah like a working man city I think that's what it was at one
point now it's a really nice mixture of new buildings and old buildings yeah and
young people I was gonna say there's a lot of young people because I think there's a ton of
universities here too and that always makes the city really interesting I think yeah and
when you have universities it also brings in hipster coffee shops craft beer places I mean
great restaurants great restaurants it has everything and then streets like this which
honestly just add to the city well one thing we can't help but notice is all the graffiti
around here we keep coming across it huh yeah loads of amazing Street are pretty much at every
corner it's easy to miss sometimes you'll just be walking by a street and then kind of lands up
and see something really really amazing I don't remember that from last time we were here again
it was eight years ago we only had a night here so we could have just missed it but it might be
something that's really new here it kind of goes back to what we said about the city being like
really really authentic and real and vibrant street art always plays hand in hand with them
we've run into some more bagpipers these guys will look a little more official right now we're down
by the river and yeah more graffiti so the stuff I wouldn't say is as impressive as the big murals
that are on the buildings but it's still pretty cool there's like graffiti everywhere we've got
this really old bridge behind us and I mentioned a river and it might not be apparent when you're
in Glasgow that this place is like on a series of rivers huh yeah this is the river Clyde I
guess the main Waterway coming into the city but not a lot seems to be on it so you kind of
have to make your like purposefully make your way down here you can walk along it
basically but I don't think there's a lot of like restaurants or anything like that down
here no it's actually really beautiful maybe at night there'll be like kind of like evening
boat tours or Sunset Tours or something like that but really right here it seems like the perfect
bridge is super cool you have this big Archway and I'm just realizing now it's actually a pedestrian
bridge so that's neat it's not like for cars or anything it's very neat it's nice and again
going back to this like finding quiet Serene places City it's pretty pretty chill down here
it's funny there's more actual seagulls than the people there are some a few people walking around
and you will find some uh some bikers as well so this is just honestly a really cool area of the
city again not expecting to find something yeah I see people biking there are bike Lanes here and I
think it would be a great place to come for some exercise to go for a run without getting worried
about you know people and things getting in your way we've just come over to a place called Scotia
bar and this is the oldest bar in all of Glasgow goes back to something like the 1700s it's really
really cool here when I think of a Scottish Pub this is exactly what I think of there's
all these different nooks and crannies there's different rooms in here and you can see all these
different pictures in in the room we're in right now and there's all this wood and leather but more
importantly we got a beer it's uh tenants and I think it's a very classic Scottish beer it is
a lager I'll quickly try just because I know you guys like when we try the beer it's not craft beer
though it's the domestic beer ah nice and cool in a previous video I got a cast and I usually like
cats but I always find them a little warm this was not on a casket was on the tap so it's nice and
cold we've been walking around a lot today already so this is just really refreshing so as you heard
Trevor just say this is called Scotia bar it's a little bit of trivia for you guys do you know what
Scotia means there's a reason I know the answer to this is actually a Latin word that just means
Scotland is the Latin translation for Scotland the reason I know this is that we are from Nova Scotia
or New Scotland which is a province in Canada does that make us honorary Scots do you think
I mean they must be happy that we're here we must be on it honorary yeah absolutely old Scots we're
the new Scots and the old Scott it does feel kind of very homey being here though there's something
about just walking around the seagulls sound the same the weather is maritime and yes we do have a
lot of bagpipes and people in kilts you're going to come across that a lot in Nova Scotia as well
the thing is as cool as this places we're about to take you from the oldest bar in all of Scotland to
one of the most trendiest bars in all of Scotland welcome to the book club this is a really historic
building that is super hipster and super trendy inside you can see these high ceilings there's
two floors there's even ping pong tables if that's what you want to do and also really cool arcade
machines we got another beer this time it is dry gate I'll try this in just a second it's
actually a gluten-free pilser I've never had a gluten-free beer before I just thought I'd try it
out why not it's nice and cold and it's a light beer it's early in the day so there's not many
people here right now but how about this place you guys how about this place let's try it out
yeah I'm gonna gonna do the trick today the thing is I don't really know what how to tell
a gluten-free beer I've never had one if you didn't tell me I wouldn't even know but this
is gonna really hit the spot it's nice and cold nice and refreshing and I think it's also from
Glasgow I don't think Trevor mentioned that it is the next day we just walked over to the West End
it was quite a long walk from our hotel but gotta get that extra exercise and funny enough I know we
mentioned we were here in Glasgow once before but for a very short time but we did actually
come to the west end and it's something we never ever forgot we've been to probably 45 different
countries since we were here last but for some reason this like neighborhood kind of stayed in
our head but this place in particular we actually came to book club like eight years ago and I've
never forgot this place it was just so memorable I I just remember all like the arcades I think
at the time they actually had rooms where people were playing like video games and stuff I don't
know if they still have them in our memory though we thought this was a church yeah I did think
it was a church but it just I guess it was just mixing it up with this I guess it would be easy
to confuse it's very historic in here there's also like church pews and stuff as some of the
tables so I guess it wouldn't make sense that we'd confuse that the other thing we really remember
about the West End is it's really really trendy dare I even say it's the Brooklyn the Brooklyn of
Glasgow it very well could be I think there's some universities around so that really helps add to
all like the coffee shops the amazing restaurants the there's just so many cool places to go like
this it's funny how we remember that even eight years ago like that pseudo and we always knew
if we came back to Glasgow we had to come to the West End So the plan now is to finish up the beer
and we are going to try to take you guys outside just so you can kind of see the street and get the
lay of food we have just come over to Ashton Lane does it get any more Scottish and cute than this
if this actually came recommended by somebody on Instagram we love it when you guys give us
recommendations when we are in a city so follow us on Instagram if not already doing that so you know
where we are in real time and then can help us out wherever we are what we're wondering is how much
does it cost to live in the West End of Glasgow Scotland we travel all the time we're looking for
places to live as we travel we'd like to come back here and spend a month at a time but I don't know
this feels pretty trendy it feels pretty hipster it feels like it costs a lot of money and we're
not quite sure so we'll put that out to you guys let us know in the comments like how much is this
to rent an apartment here right here in the West End of Glasgow or maybe even like for a week no I
have to say a month to get discount at least but I bet it's a lot of money a lot of pounds I'm so
glad we came over to the west end today as we said we remembered it from like eight years ago
we came back and it's more or less the same I think so I don't remember that much other than
the book club place but remember thinking it's a really cool neighborhood I'm sure people that have
lived here for a while probably are gonna say of course it changed a lot in the last eight years
but what what city has stopped my memory yeah like we did get one taxi while we were here and right
away what we told them we were here eight years ago and they said oh it's changed so much and I
mean every place has changed so much in the last eight years that's for sure but I I still have
fond memories of this West End of Glasgow and I'm glad we came back it's so much fun so cool we went
back to the same kind of that old building that Brewery book club and I know for you guys like we
haven't really explained it that much we kind of harped or like you mentioned it a little bit at
the beginning but like this is kind of where our YouTube Journey began where we didn't even YouTube
but it kind of we didn't even make a video at the time but it's like it's fun to come back eight
years ago we started this adventure on YouTube we kind of just Dilly dallied in it for the
first few years you guys always ask us and then we got a little bit more serious about
it but yeah it's the last few days I felt a little bit a little bit full circle yeah it
feels full circle coming back to Our Roots so if you guys got this far in the video we
really appreciate it it's Trevor and Hannah delightful Travelers hit subscribe if you're
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thanks for tuning in we're on a UK Adventure we're heading south from this point out yeah
I think the next video is either going to be based on a little town or maybe some North Scottish food
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but we really appreciate you guys tuning in each and every single week all right
guys that's it from Glasgow wishing you delightful travel see you soon