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Wakeboards, whisky and Mackintosh.

There's plenty to do in Glasgow beyond the museums. Try cable wakeboarding on the canal at Port Dundas, five minutes from the city centre, or take a distillery tour in a Victorian pumphouse on the Clyde. Take tea in the last of Mackintosh's tearooms on Sauchiehall Street, or head out to the foot of the Campsies for a Highland distillery. Whatever the weather, you'll find something to fill a day.

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Place of the day19 hours ago

The Clydeside Distillery.

Glasgow's first single malt distillery in over a century, in the 1877 pumphouse of the Queen's Dock, with an hour's tour and three drams.

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From the magazine18 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 12Issue 12Spring / Summer 2026

The wildlife film-maker Gordon Buchanan lived for a year and a half between Kingussie and Newtonmore, in the heartland of pine martens, and never saw a single one.

Gordon, who grew up on the Isle of Mull, was there making three half-hour wildlife documentaries, and the martens kept themselves hidden the whole time. Since then their numbers have really bounced back over the last 30 years, and he has seen them on the edge of Glasgow and just south of Crianlarich. For an animal that was once so elusive, he says, it has never been easier to see pine martens in Scotland than it is now. 'It’s not going to be too long before people have pine martens at their feeders in Glasgow'. Not every animal is so obliging: he has caught Scottish wildcats on camera traps, but never conclusively seen one in the wild.

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Tours Worth Taking in Glasgow

Glasgow rewards being shown round by somebody who knows it, because so much of the best of it is behind a door. From distilleries and breweries to grand old buildings, these are the tours worth taking.

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Things to do16 hours ago

The Mackintosh Tearooms.

The last of Mackintosh's tearooms for Miss Cranston, opened on Sauchiehall Street in 1903, with the Salon de Luxe, tea from 11am to 6pm and morning tours.

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Did you know14 hours ago

At the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, where the Kelvin meets the Clyde, children can walk a rebuilt cobbled street with its own subway station, and entry is free.

The street is lined with shops and houses recreated from Glasgow's past. There is no need to book. It opens 10am to 5pm, from 11am on Fridays and Sundays. Outside are the first purpose-built 3x3 basketball court in Glasgow and five built-in skate obstacles. Lifts reach every public area, and a Changing Places toilet is on the ground floor near reception.

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From Issue 2 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 213 hours ago

The Nooks and Crannies of Glasgow

Our guide to Glasgow's lesser-known corners, from the West End lanes and Southside parks to the Necropolis, the Barras and the canal at Speirs Wharf, with good places to eat.

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From the magazine12 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 02Issue 02Spring / Summer 2021

Glasgow has its own herd of Highland cows, living in Pollok Country Park on the city's Southside.

Pollok is Glasgow's only country park, 361 acres of woodland, greenery and manicured gardens to the south-west of the city centre. It was named Britain's Best Park in 2007, and the Best Park in Europe a year later. You can follow the woodland walks and cycle routes, visit the wildlife garden, take on the orienteering course or stroll along the banks of the White Cart Water, with the palatial 18th-century Pollok House at the centre of it all. Keep your eyes peeled as you go, because a herd of Highland cows is not the first thing you would expect to see in a city.

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Things to do11 hours ago

Glengoyne Distillery Guided Tour & Whisky Tasting.

Guided tours and tastings at Glengoyne, from a 45-minute tour of the distillery to a five-hour masterclass.

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Did you know9 hours ago

Glasgow has had its own fold of Highland cattle for nearly two hundred years?

The Maxwells brought their herd, the Pollok Fold, down from the Highlands to graze the heavy clay of their estate. Around thirty breeding cows and three bulls live outside all year in the fields along Pollok Avenue in Pollok Country Park.

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One family held Pollok, on Glasgow's south side, for more than 700 years, and now Highland cattle graze it.

Pollok Country Park covers 361 acres on the south side of Glasgow. The Maxwell family held the estate for more than 700 years before it was given to the city in 1966. A herd of Highland cattle grazes the parkland, the Burrell Collection stands in the grounds, and in 2008 Pollok was named Europe's best park.

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Book something for the weekend.

The tours and days that fill up: someone who knows the water, the hill or the city, booked before Friday.

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From the magazine6 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 13Issue 13Autumn / Winter 2026-27

For Mandy Maria, an artist who draws Scotland's mountains in soft pastel, a walk is almost psychedelic, because colour is what she notices most.

Mandy is a highly visual thinker, and a grubby gate, a particular light or the colour of a flower can stay in her memory and turn up later in a picture that looks little like the original scene. 'If I walk, it’s almost psychedelic. I’m very in tune with colour. It’s what I notice the most and want to translate on paper'. Her city commute takes her down Victoria Road and through Queen's Park in Glasgow. Back in the studio, music guides her. She grew up with the radio always on, and she works to a soundtrack of her own choosing, from 90s nostalgia and power ballads to Romy, LCD Soundsystem or even metal.

Read the full story in Issue 13