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Dienstag, 20. September 2016
city and host family
jorrrrris, 02:41h
After two weeks in Glasgow, I will write about my first impressions and experiences with the city and my host family. For now I will save work and cultural differences for later.
Even if it is weird to live with some strangers.
My host family is quite nice and I get along with them very well. That someone else is doing my laundry is so strange, because I have done it myself for so such a long time now. Well it is comfortable as well, so I don't mind. Also I never need to worry about making dinner my self and they do cook well.
:P
As I do not live in the city center I need to take a bus, but my bus connection is pretty good and it only takes 25-30 minutes to the city center. The bus system was confusing, but I got used to it now and it is amazingly easy to use. There are multiple bus companies, but only one big, so I only use that one. Where ever you are you do not need to look up how to get home, because ,as long as there is a bus going, you can not get lost. All buses are going to the city center, so if I want to get home I just take the next bus to the city center and get home from there. That was really useful for exploring the city and all the different districts.
After that short period of time I have already seen almost all different districts, here later more and a lot of the places of interest, here later not more. Most of the museums and some other touristy attractions are for free, so that gave me the opportunity to just do them and not spending time about thinking if it be worth the money. I would have never seen the city camber and that was so impressive, well that was more.
On weekends I have done some small trips in the area. The first one was to Edinburgh, at this point I need to say that Edinburgh has that amazing old city core, but the houses are all the same. Which means they look the same, because of the material used to build them and and the time they where build in. Nice to look at for one day, but I do not want to live there.
The second trip was to Arran, an island recommended from locals. Arran was amazing there are some small villages and hills for hiking. As I went on Sunday and did not read the weather forecast and it got insanely windy. I got stuck on the island for one night and could not work on Monday morning.
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Even if it is weird to live with some strangers.
My host family is quite nice and I get along with them very well. That someone else is doing my laundry is so strange, because I have done it myself for so such a long time now. Well it is comfortable as well, so I don't mind. Also I never need to worry about making dinner my self and they do cook well.
:P
As I do not live in the city center I need to take a bus, but my bus connection is pretty good and it only takes 25-30 minutes to the city center. The bus system was confusing, but I got used to it now and it is amazingly easy to use. There are multiple bus companies, but only one big, so I only use that one. Where ever you are you do not need to look up how to get home, because ,as long as there is a bus going, you can not get lost. All buses are going to the city center, so if I want to get home I just take the next bus to the city center and get home from there. That was really useful for exploring the city and all the different districts.
After that short period of time I have already seen almost all different districts, here later more and a lot of the places of interest, here later not more. Most of the museums and some other touristy attractions are for free, so that gave me the opportunity to just do them and not spending time about thinking if it be worth the money. I would have never seen the city camber and that was so impressive, well that was more.
On weekends I have done some small trips in the area. The first one was to Edinburgh, at this point I need to say that Edinburgh has that amazing old city core, but the houses are all the same. Which means they look the same, because of the material used to build them and and the time they where build in. Nice to look at for one day, but I do not want to live there.
The second trip was to Arran, an island recommended from locals. Arran was amazing there are some small villages and hills for hiking. As I went on Sunday and did not read the weather forecast and it got insanely windy. I got stuck on the island for one night and could not work on Monday morning.
more soon
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