Glasgow is great! Slap bang in the middle of the bestest weather we've seen this year, there is a huge public holiday for the Glasgow fair, and being the lucky so and so that I am, I got the Friday and the Monday off work! So, 4 days off in a row! The little cogs in my wee brain got moving, and I came up with the ingenious idea of heading 'doon sooth' for my first visit to sunny Southampton since the big move.
So, there I was, on a little BA plane, feeling all sorts of emotions: excitement - it promised to be an awesome weekend, nervous - would all my friends still be my friends, slightly petrified - with a visit 'doon sooth' comes the inevitable meeting with supervisor to discuss thesis progress, and shockingly enough, as we came in to land, tearful - it really felt like coming home.
Anyways, in short, I had the most amazing weekend! It started well with a quiet arrival with a small group of mates, then on to day one with the thesis discussions, which went well! So that totally put me on a high! Then, I hit the pubs. The sun was shining, I'd had good thesis news, and had already started to feel the big love. So, with a white wine spritzer and a smile, I put on my old social butterfly costume, and made my way to my old local!
I then was basically tipsy for the whole weekend (days 2, 3 and 4 got a bit blurred). And despite the rather poor selection of late night establishments in comparison with Glasgow (there are now a couple of bouncers in Southampton who have had a rather in-depth tutorial from a rather innebriated Hannbella telling them exactly what her £6 could get her in Scotland, and just how favourably it compared the the small, sweaty hovel they were offering), and the dodgy curry (which left Hannabella a little worse for wear!) the people really, really made it!
To top it all off, I even got a good dose of Cap'n Jack Sparra at the cinema on Sunday - perfect.
So, the time came to leave, after seeing so many ace mates! I think this had been the bit I was nervous about actually - would I want to go at all?!
Well, I'm pleased to say that I left Southampton, yes, feeling sad that I'd left all my friends there, but no, not feeling like I wanted to move back that instant. I was quite happy to return to civilised, cosmopolitan Glasgow, with its excellent selection of shops, bistros, bars, clubs and public spaces...
...I'm just working on finding a suitcase big enough to get all those wonderful southerners, who I love so much, into, and ship them all up here!
Posted by Han at July 21, 2006 05:06 PM | TrackBack