Well, this is novel, I'm writing this sitting at a bar!
Last night, in frustration at early closing, I looked for a site listing cafes with WiFi in Glasgow. Even better, I found someone's review page of WiFi hotspots in the West End. They opened it up for people to comment at the end and list & review other places they knew of. Two people mentioned that the Chip on Ashton lane had free WiFi.
I knew that a few pubs were starting to offer WiFi but they're less overt about it than cafes, so I wasn't sure which ones or how to find out. The Chip is great and I love coming to Ashton Lane. The one disadvantage is that the only plug is behind the bar. Now, the barman was nice enough to plug me in, but I doubt they would be so patient if I tried to do this all the time. So I don't think this'll be a regular hangout. It does make a nice change though, and the soup and bread I had for lunch was fantastic and cheap.
Anyway, I'll have to explore a few of he other options here around the West End. I'm also looking into other forms of internet--either home internet or mobile broadband. Both are expensive, though, if you're not signing up for year long contracts...which wouldn't work out so well for us.
1 comment:
I would be lost without internet at home, and admire you for managing to find solutions to not having it.
Is there cable-modem in the UK? When Crian and I were in Canada it was cheaper for us to buy a cable-TV plan for the modem than to get internet via a phone line (we never did get a land-line while there--we had a mobile phone which acted as a land line).
The cable guy did look at us funny when we told him we didn't actually own a TV and didn't want channels, we just wanted the cable modem.
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