Welcome to Episode 079 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. I’ve been meaning…
Linn Park
Linn Park lies just south of Cathcart railway station, on the edge of Glasgow Southside. It’s…
Football History in Glasgow Southside
The Southside of Glasgow is fundamentally important for the history of the game of football (soccer).…
Pollok Country Park
Pollok Country Park, on the edge of Glasgow, is one of the most famous city parks…
Cute Cafes in Glasgow
Now, a blog post about ‘Cute Cafes in Glasgow’ (or anywhere else to be honest) isn’t…
Podcast #078: The Merchant Navy
Welcome to Episode 078 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. Well, this is…
Podcast #077: New Series, New City, New Nel
Welcome to Episode 077 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. Well, that was…
What is a Numbers Station
There is a famous quote from a spokesperson in what was at the time the Department…
Spango Valley
Just south of Greenock, in Inverclyde, western Scotland, is a derelict business park called Spango Valley,…
Visiting Pripyat
Whenever anyone thinks of visiting Chernobyl, what they think of often isn’t the power plant itself.…
Chernobyl City and the Exclusion Zone
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was the scene of an explosion in April 1986. It was…