Globe Trotters Hostel, Glasgow
Back in the 90s when (hed)p.e. were good, they played The Garage on Sauchiehall Street. This sounded like a good laugh to two recently turned 18 blokes such as my mate and I, keen to do grown up debauched things. Another friend of mine recommended the amusingly titled Globe Trotters youth hostel as a cheap hovel to spend the night in. You don't just get a room though, it comes with a lecture too. From what he told me it went like this:

"You're welcome to use the kitchen and bathroom facilities, there's also a TV in the communal room. Come back late if you want as long as you're quiet but most importantly I have to insist that you don't take any drugs on the premises. So that's no drugs ok? We don't want any drug-taking going on in our hostel. Drugs are right out. No drugs."

"OK."

"Great then, any questions?"

"What about the drugs, is it alright to do drugs here?"

So I retold this story to the friend who'd come with me to Glasgow and we were looking forward to a similarly weird welcome. We got something a bit different though. We knocked on the door and waited a minute. It creaked open a few inches and some old, east european sounding woman scowled at us with beady eyes. She looked a bit like one of Papa Lazarou's wives.

"Yes!"

"Erm, is this, I mean, this is the Globe Trotters youth hostel?"

"Yeeeesssss."

"We're looking for a room for the night."

* pause *

"You from Glasgow!"

"No, we've come from Fife."

* silence as she looks us up and down *

"Where are your bags!?"

We both turn slightly to show our small shoulder sports bags.

"We, erm, only want to stay one night so we *mumble* don't have much stuff"

* uncomfortable silence *

"And you NOT from Glasgow!?"

"No."

* one last pause to really get us worried *

"Good, gooooood. Come in."

Once inside, someone else sorted us out with a room and gave us the tour (which included no mention of the drugs restrictions). We were still too scared to go back there too sober but everything was fine.

Yay for hed(p.e.) and Jedi Nights, the Star Wars theme pub.
( djtrialprice, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 12:12, 1 reply)

I saw
hed p.e. recently, they weren't awful but they weren't fantastic either, the support was just as good
( MadAdamUk was last alive on, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 18:10, closed)