Saturday 3 September 2011

#5 The Clyde Riverwalk

Many cities that have a river running through them are using this to provide their citizens with some leisure walkways right next to them. Some of these promenades have become world famous and part of the cities' main tourist attraction. The neatly done Clyde Riverwalk in Glasgow is not amongst them. Not only is the Clyde a rather unmoving and unattractive body of water that is surrounded by a thicket of rotting weeds, on it's shore are some of Glasgow's fiercest social housing projects. The gentlemen living there love the banks of the river and so they flock their in large merry crowds and huddle under the trees and wee underpaths that the "promenade" takes. There is certainly a less dangerous way to go for a walk then pushing through loud crowds of Buckfast drinkers with pitbulls. A small bit of information that gives yet another edge to this walk is the fact, that the city has employed someone to fish corpses out of the water on a regular basis. Who knows how many innocent tourists are amongst them, who only wanted to have a wee walk down at the Clyde...

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