{"id":3542,"date":"2018-07-02T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T07:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2018-07-02T08:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T07:18:54","slug":"largs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3542","title":{"rendered":"Largs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just catching up. Typing this a clear month late, we went to Largs<\/a>. just over 30 miles west of Glasgow; so it’s where lots of Glaswegians head on a sunny day, as we found when we arrived after a gratifyingly easy journey north, through the city, and back out the other side. The seafront and the pubs were packed with people.<\/p>\n

It was quieter later in the week, though still busyish; with Glasgow so close (under an hour on the train) there’s lots of day trippers. <\/p>\n

So then, Largs: so many churches. A couple of impresssive churches, but so many. I’m a great fan of churches, less so of what goes on in them, but here they spent a metric fuckload of cash on them, with two Church of Scotland chruches with impressive towers looming over the town.
\nBesides that, the town is largely traditional seaside; a big, wide prom, a small seafront collection of funfair rides, a kiddie’s play area at one end, a park and boating lake at another.<\/p>\n

There’s plenty of pubs too, which you’ll find over at PubBlog<\/a>, though real ale, and especially good real ale, was a bit scarce, though we fared better for that on a trip into Glasgow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Talking of trips, the proximity to Glasgow ensured good public transport: a station in the town on one railway line, another line (with the wonderful Wemyss Bay station<\/a>) just a short bus ride away, ferries to Bute and Great Cumbrae. We even managed to get Dunoon<\/a> (lovely, but in need of more TLC) and Rothesay<\/a> (underwhelming) piers in, and all of this without using the car apart from actually getting there. We also managed a trip on PS Waverley<\/a> on a gloriously sunny day, in a week of sunny days and returned suntanned \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m just catching up. Typing this a clear month late, we went to Largs. just over 30 miles west of Glasgow; so it’s where lots of Glaswegians head on a sunny day, as we found when we arrived after a gratifyingly easy journey north, through the city, and back out the other side. The seafront … Continue reading Largs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-retrospective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}