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Article: GLASGOW: The shopping capital of Scotland
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- September 8, 2005
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SANDY KOZEL, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
09-08-2005
Dateline: GLASGOW, Scotland
A funny thing happened on my way to a museum in Glasgow. As a traveler who'd much rather tour a local city hall or hike a historic trail than go shopping, I got sidetracked _ by shopping!
Time for tourists to leave their money behind is usually built in to most organized tours. But in this case, our tour guide had failed to mention just how much of an activity this could be in the center of this quite cosmopolitan Scottish city.
Properly scolded by a number of excited shoppers in his charge, he clued us in to Glasgow being "the second-largest shopping area in the United Kingdom, second only to London." ...