Glasgow Activities along the Underground Route

[Gary Brown]

Hey guys, me again.

I'm trying to put together an event for International Students at one of the Universities in the City called the "Underground Challenge". Think Sub Crawl but without the alcohol and bars. The basic idea is we buy a discovery ticket and travel around stopping at a good few stops and see what we can do for free (or as close to free as we can) before moving on.

So I need some ideas for what we can do at each stop (I won't necessarily be stopping at every one but a complete list can't hurt). I'd appreciate any help ya'll can give. Remember these guys love EVERYTHING and anything of interest so nothing will be considered as pointless when it comes to suggestions.

Thanks

Zag

[Peetabix]

Shields Road - Museum Of Education http://clyde-valley.com/glasgow/museumed.htm

[youngmckellar]

I'd recommend getting off a Kelvinbridge and taking the short walk along the River Kelvin walkway past the ruins of the Woodside flint mill into the 'back door' of the Botanics at the top of Byres Road. Once you're in the Botanics check out the Kibble Palace, the old railway station and the greenhouses then you can head back to the underground at Hillhead.

[Vinegar Tom]

You could arrange a visit to the Gal Gael boatyard at Govan.

http://www.galgael.org/index.aspx

[cumbo]

Shoplifting at St Enoch.

[dave2]

Lighthouse between St Enoch & Buchanan St - frree sometime at weekends IIRC.

[Peekay]

You could arrange a visit to the Gal Gael boatyard at Govan.

http://www.galgael.org/index.aspx

Cracking place! I had a mooch about with a pal a year-or-so back and some of the work is amazing.

PK

[Roxburgh]

Shoplifting at St Enoch.

Followed by a visit to the Polis station at Cowcaddens

[Sunflower]

You could get off at Cessnock and see if you can find the route to the Science Centre, passing through the last remaining vestige of the Garden Festival (if it you wait till spring you catch tadpoles if the stream hasn't entirely silted up by then), have a go on the playground thing for big kids - it's got bits of climbing wall stuff to climb up (well I enjoyed it).

You could go all the way over to the river and see the Waverley asleep for winter (not yet but soon) and have a play with the water sculpture Archimedian (sp?) screw demo thing at the end of the Science Centre, and wave at the lifts going up and down the tower (depending on time of day). And you can go into the BBC and gasp at their giant screens and stuff I do believe. Or you could just nip along Govan Road and back to Ibrox. (Pick a match day for extra local colour .)