Once upon a time there was a great place in Glasgow called Easy Everything in Saint Vincent St near the main Glasgow post office in the city center.
It all started excellent: open 24/7, nice and numerous staff always ready to help, uploads, downloads, printing, copying and so on available. ... Read review
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Advantages: quick and cheap way to connect on the web Disadvantages: lack of privacy/no customer service
...a faceless, tasteless self-service web café (even their bright orange colour now seems gloomy).
- The shop has been divided in two. The right part is a café and is apparently independent from the web area itself. Despite this the only food and drink you're allowed to have must come from that café. Another pain in the bottom is the smoke coming from it. Choose a seat near the doors if you can't stand it...
- It's no longer ... ...costs you about £1/hour
- I guess it's the only web café around for miles (maybe something in the west end I'm not sure).
So now it's up to you...I can't just wait to have my own PC and connexion at home ! ... more
Once upon a time there was a great place in Glasgow called Easy Everything in Saint Vincent St near the main Glasgow post office in the city center.
It all started excellent: open 24/7, nice and numerous staff always ready to help, uploads, downloads, printing, copying and so on available. In less than a year, all of this disappeared (included the staff, only a couple of vending machines stand there and obviouly depressing themselves).
Easy everything is to the webcafés outlets what Macdonald's is to food. A cheap (because even the place itself is not really well maintained) place where you put your bum on a hard seat closely elbowing your neighbour surrounded with welcoming messages such as "you must not eat what you have purchased (much much cheaper) outside these premises" (are M&Ms ok ?)and where well, you just surf...
Bad aspects :
- Should you need to go to the loo, I guess you'll have to ask for a key because it's always locked.
- Hold firmly to your handbag/bags as nasty neds love to pay a visit here to shop around...
- As I said earlier, Easy Everything has become a faceless, tasteless self-service web café (even their bright orange colour now seems gloomy).
- The shop has been divided in two. The right part is a café and is apparently independent from the web area itself. Despite this the only food and drink you're allowed to have must come from that café. Another pain in the bottom is the smoke coming from it. Choose a seat near the doors if you can't stand it...
- It's no longer open 24/7 (alright we used to crash there waiting for the first train after clubbing...But who decided to shut the clubs at 3 O'clock in the morning ? Not me anyway !)
- Lack of privacy : may sound a bit paranoid but at least they could have put small partitions. I would never dare ordering anything from there !!
- Generally not very welcoming and gives the impression of a ghosttown. I have the feeling that Glasgow is not glamourous enough for the owner of this company to let a shop so degraded. It gives such a bad opinion of it (is this company really making money ?) Too bad !
Good points :
- Technically it works wonder: you surf quickly and smoothly (this changes from work where the PCs crash 100 times a day)
- It costs you about £1/hour
- I guess it's the only web café around for miles (maybe something in the west end I'm not sure).
So now it's up to you...I can't just wait to have my own PC and connexion at home !
Advantages: unexpected, value Disadvantages: not picture postcard pretty
and Skateboarders, esp Saturday. The building houses the usual modern stuff like piles of bricks but also a Roy Lichtenstein I seem to recall and a clock sculpture which I cant describe - you must see it. On the ground floor. In the basement a great library, cafe and internetcafe. On the ground floor a nice gift shop. The Glasgow City Council have given their museum shops more autonomy over what they stock, and they have sensibly gone for mid-price designer stuff as well as the usual books, postcards etc. Earnings from £6 by local designers, individual jewelry are some of the nwe ideas. Well worth a look. By the way the Transport Museum in the west end has branched out into more collectors models as well as kids pocket money stuff.
In Glasgow there are definable social and religious groups. As a tourist this may be irrelevent to you, but plays ...
mark-southside 17.02.2004 (20.03.2004)
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