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Post by moonshadow on Mar 16, 2012 10:44:43 GMT 1
Just to bring it back to sanity for a few brief lucid moments, actually I think it's a good idea. Cruise ships et al are worth several million to the local community - not everyone on these things likes Braehead or Glesga shopping; some of them like going to a "real, ge-you-ine scotch shaw-ping town" (aka Gourock) - the wee old shops that we see as failed antique jobs selling cheap knock-offs, dubious (although some of the are actually good) art galleries and dodgy fashion shops, they see as a treasure trove, and happily flash out their funny banknotes… With a good focus (inverclyde Council don't even have a tourism officer - regardless of what you think, given the large numbers of tourists that if nothing else, commute, through Inverclyde, that's shocking!) we could con, err..persuade these not-so-worldly types into splashing out more of their cash in the "quaint ye old village"; maybe score up a better farmers market and have it near the cruise ships etc. I know it's poor now, but it COULD, with the right support, be a lot better, and a good way of bringing a lot of money into the area that currently goes straight to Glasgow because thee's nothing here to spend it on… Now, back to your regularly scheduled hallucinations. By the way, can someone tell that purple giraffe to stop making his head glow in morse-code. My morse is very poor, and it's distracting me from the synchronised flying rhinocerous team! The biggest pull to Inverclyde form the cures ships are not the tourist but the crew who spend lodes in local shops (yes pound shop and Lidls but still) |
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Post by coolcamper55 on Mar 16, 2012 10:52:20 GMT 1
Re "not everyone wants to go to Glesca", I was up at Cornalees and came across a bunch of tourits from one of the liners taking in the scenery around Loch Thom.
They asked me a few questions on the Cut and the Loch and why it was named Thom.
After about 15 minutes I took them in the car up to Scroggie Bank, its the radio mast above Loch Thom and showed them the views across all of the Clyde Estuary and Argyll. Needless to say they were stunned at the scenery.
I suggested to one of the Inverclyde tourism guys that they could do this sort of thing in an organised manner but it all seemed like too much trouble.
Perhaps they get a bung from Braehead for every bus party
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Post by moonshadow on Mar 16, 2012 11:59:41 GMT 1
Re "not everyone wants to go to Glesca", I was up at Cornalees and came across a bunch of tourits from one of the liners taking in the scenery around Loch Thom. They asked me a few questions on the Cut and the Loch and why it was named Thom. After about 15 minutes I took them in the car up to Scroggie Bank, its the radio mast above Loch Thom and showed them the views across all of the Clyde Estuary and Argyll. Needless to say they were stunned at the scenery. I suggested to one of the Inverclyde tourism guys that they could do this sort of thing in an organised manner but it all seemed like too much trouble. Perhaps they get a bung from Braehead for every bus party Do they not still do the wee bus tours? |
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Post by coolcamper55 on Mar 16, 2012 14:17:57 GMT 1
The chances of a wee bus getting up to the top of Scroggie as not very good its a farm track but not impossible. There are so many nice runs like down Brisbane Glen to Largs and back up the coast, we have some of the most majestic panorama's in the world and all they seem to offer is the chance to shop or wander round city centres full of carbon monoxide.
Shame really
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Post by tiddles on Mar 16, 2012 14:37:04 GMT 1
Well of course there are always exceptions to the rule but I would say that the OVERWHELMING number of cruise ship passengers wouldn't dream of buggering about Cornalees or anywhere like it. But of course there are always tightwads who don't want to part with their dollars and the thought of a free jaunt to see some quaint Scottish waterworks is all too tantalising.
If I were a foreigner and had spent many thousands to go on a cruise to Scotland, I'd want to see places that I had heard of like Loch Lomond and Edinburgh Castle. Why the hell would anyone is possession of their faculties want to pad about a miserable, depressed former industrial town, replete as it is with hot and cold running junkies and neds?
The delusional, 'wee ladies' with their polo shirts and free shortbread are a complete joke and it's yet another example of elderly people with time on their hands convincing themselves that they are, 'making a difference'. They are rather like the Community Councils, in fact, that's where most of them come from. They can spend their days buggering about the Container Terminal and their nights at other meets thus saving a fortune on heating and electricity.
Here's something, I don't want people to tour Inverclyde. I don't want foreigners taking what will be negative views of the place and let's face it, aside from the Esplanade and the Lyle Hill, there's nothing else to write home about. And, even those two places are meeting places for boy and girl racers and their chums to smoke, 'weed' or whatever.
Until somebody takes this place by arms and lifts it back to some kind of normality, it will only get worse. Face it people, we live in a poverty based ghetto.
As has been said, the only benefit our area gets from the cruise ships are indeed when the crews meander about in and out of Primark and the Poundies. That's what we are, a shopping mall for very poor people.
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 16, 2012 17:03:14 GMT 1
one just passed my window and waved in
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Post by tiddles on Mar 16, 2012 17:05:26 GMT 1
You should have been dressed in tartan and singing the songs from, 'Brigadoon'.
"For the Mist is in the Mountains" tra la la
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 16, 2012 17:10:46 GMT 1
god tidds i am still singing TENNA LADY....cant get that bloody song out of my mind
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Post by tiddles on Mar 16, 2012 17:13:10 GMT 1
Truthfully, I have never heard it, I don't watch commercials.
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Post by Wee Jock on Mar 16, 2012 17:26:20 GMT 1
no rabbits were harmed in the making Not quite true Linda, one rabbit was actually shot that night. |
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 16, 2012 17:26:51 GMT 1
well this one hasn't been on for a while but its still in my head.....our daughter sings SUN BINGO, SUN BINGO, SUN BINGO...and that drives her demented
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Post by tiddles on Mar 16, 2012 17:44:30 GMT 1
I watch news live and the occasional BBC thing but mostly I record stuff on my Freeview+ thing and then play it back when it suits and I just skip the ads.
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 16, 2012 17:46:39 GMT 1
no wonder you skip them.....the bloody adds are terrible.....i used to like the one for budwizer as it had the frogs saying it.....
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Post by tiddles on Mar 16, 2012 17:48:17 GMT 1
I have been watching that, 'Our Man In.....' thing about the British consuls, jeez there are more commercials that programme. My thumb aches to buggery with all the skipping I have to do.
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 16, 2012 18:00:15 GMT 1
watched that last night, i never new you had to pay them for their services.....that poor couple that lost their daughter a few years back and to think they didnt get any help to bring their daughter's body home.....such a shame
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Post by tiddles on Mar 16, 2012 18:25:56 GMT 1
Yes and they charge you hunners for a single use passport. I bet Brown was behind that little scam.
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 16, 2012 18:27:30 GMT 1
i know...its not that if you couldnt get the money together you would be stuck...i thought that they were there to help you not hinder
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