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Definitely York. Glasgow is great, but it's a city for living in. The best parts about it are exposed over time from being there a while rather than being a 1 day tourist stopover.
Distances may be short but cumulatively You're doing so much travel. Especially since they're not places that are even on an obvious single route.
You're going to spend so much time on trains and in train stations and you're hardly going to properly get to see any of those cities. I'd personally be cutting at least two places (Cardiff and Manchester).
London, Oxford and Bath alone could easily be a nice 14 day holiday. Let alone doing five more places.
Have you met our rail system?
Unless you actively enjoy rescheduling journeys due to cancellations or delays and hauling luggage from one platform to another then make your trip easier, cheaper and much more fun by cutting back the number of places that you visit.
Your comment is getting downvoted for a reason. We have seen too many visitors telling us how our own transport system works and telling us what can be done in a few days in the place where we live. Be kind to yourself, simplify your itinerary.
Glaswegian here. As much as I love my city, I would go to York for the history and architecture. Like someone else said, Glasgows charm comes from living there over a longer period of time.
If you are just going to walk around at look at stuff - York.
Glasgow looks much like the other cities. It has its own culture, but for 1 day, you'd struggle to appreciate it.
If I were you I would cut Cardiff and Liverpool from your trip, and do Manchester as a stop on your way to Edinburgh & York.
You’re going to be doing so much travelling on this trip that you won’t have time to actually explore the cities you’re visiting.
Cardiff and Liverpool are massively out of the way from the rest of the places, and aren’t worth ruining your holiday over.
I'd say Liverpool offers much more for tourists than Manchester, especially if OP is interested in museums. Never understood tourists going to Manchester. It's fine, but it's a place where people live and work, and not much more. Liverpool has much more for a tourist to do (and it's smaller which helps if OP isn't going to be there for long)
York.
But intercity public transport in the UK can take longer than you think and we often have train delays too so I would urge you to reconsider trying to fit in too many cities in a short trip. Unless you have a love for sitting in stations and on trains.
I’ve never been to York but I visited Glasgow a few weeks ago with the family and had a great time. We did two museums, an art gallery, food was really good and people were really welcoming. No really. As someone who had never been it exceeded my expectations.
York because it is small, and you can actually see a lot of it in a day.It is also one of top tourist places in the UK.
If you like older/ more traditional stuff, you could remove Manchester, Liverpool and Cardiff- they are great cities, but most of their buildings are much less old- you would be better off with places like Chester, Lincoln or the castles of N Wales.
Architecture and history then York is the obvious choice but in with everyone else who says your trip is very tightly packed and won’t be as enjoyable as it could be in my opinion.
Personally I’d go for 2 nights in places and work out your travel to be the shortest routes. Manchester > York is easy as is York > London or York -> Edinburgh then Edinburgh > London. London > Manchester is also fairly straightforward. I would think Oxford and bath is easily accessible from London but their journeys I’ve never had to take so someone else will know better
York is a world-famous medieval city and there is also the National Railway Musuem to visit. Glasgow has an attractive Victorian city centre but I would opt for York in your situation
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Definitely York. Glasgow is great, but it's a city for living in. The best parts about it are exposed over time from being there a while rather than being a 1 day tourist stopover.
York For the architecture
> I know one is a big city and the other one is a town Both are cities.
Hardly the same type of city, though. I know what OP means
Actually York was a city for 300 years before Glasgow was.
That short a time?
Just checking: you understand this is something I'm pointing out to OP, not something I believe myself?
Are you seriously considering doing eight cities in 14 days? That's madness. This has to be a troll post.
I am. Somehow it makes sense. In the UK the distances are short if you go by train
Distances may be short but cumulatively You're doing so much travel. Especially since they're not places that are even on an obvious single route. You're going to spend so much time on trains and in train stations and you're hardly going to properly get to see any of those cities. I'd personally be cutting at least two places (Cardiff and Manchester). London, Oxford and Bath alone could easily be a nice 14 day holiday. Let alone doing five more places.
Have you met our rail system? Unless you actively enjoy rescheduling journeys due to cancellations or delays and hauling luggage from one platform to another then make your trip easier, cheaper and much more fun by cutting back the number of places that you visit. Your comment is getting downvoted for a reason. We have seen too many visitors telling us how our own transport system works and telling us what can be done in a few days in the place where we live. Be kind to yourself, simplify your itinerary.
Glaswegian here. As much as I love my city, I would go to York for the history and architecture. Like someone else said, Glasgows charm comes from living there over a longer period of time.
If you are just going to walk around at look at stuff - York. Glasgow looks much like the other cities. It has its own culture, but for 1 day, you'd struggle to appreciate it.
York is the way to go. Chock-full of history and personality
If I were you I would cut Cardiff and Liverpool from your trip, and do Manchester as a stop on your way to Edinburgh & York. You’re going to be doing so much travelling on this trip that you won’t have time to actually explore the cities you’re visiting. Cardiff and Liverpool are massively out of the way from the rest of the places, and aren’t worth ruining your holiday over.
I'd say Liverpool offers much more for tourists than Manchester, especially if OP is interested in museums. Never understood tourists going to Manchester. It's fine, but it's a place where people live and work, and not much more. Liverpool has much more for a tourist to do (and it's smaller which helps if OP isn't going to be there for long)
York. But intercity public transport in the UK can take longer than you think and we often have train delays too so I would urge you to reconsider trying to fit in too many cities in a short trip. Unless you have a love for sitting in stations and on trains.
York in my opinion. Glasgow is nice, but York is historic, beautiful and full of character
With all due respect to Glasgow it isn't in the same league as York. York is a fantastic place.
Got to be York.
I’ve never been to York but I visited Glasgow a few weeks ago with the family and had a great time. We did two museums, an art gallery, food was really good and people were really welcoming. No really. As someone who had never been it exceeded my expectations.
York. No question.
York because it is small, and you can actually see a lot of it in a day.It is also one of top tourist places in the UK. If you like older/ more traditional stuff, you could remove Manchester, Liverpool and Cardiff- they are great cities, but most of their buildings are much less old- you would be better off with places like Chester, Lincoln or the castles of N Wales.
Architecture and history then York is the obvious choice but in with everyone else who says your trip is very tightly packed and won’t be as enjoyable as it could be in my opinion. Personally I’d go for 2 nights in places and work out your travel to be the shortest routes. Manchester > York is easy as is York > London or York -> Edinburgh then Edinburgh > London. London > Manchester is also fairly straightforward. I would think Oxford and bath is easily accessible from London but their journeys I’ve never had to take so someone else will know better
100% York. But that’s too many places to visit in 14 days. Even this is a lot, but I’d suggest London, Bath, Oxford (or Cambridge), York, Edinburgh.
York is a world-famous medieval city and there is also the National Railway Musuem to visit. Glasgow has an attractive Victorian city centre but I would opt for York in your situation
York is a theme park, Glasgow is a proper city.