Stuff to do in & around Falkirk

[iona]

I'm staying in Falkirk this weekend and have most of Friday and Saturday free (might possibly be going to Bathgate via Linlithgow on the Saturday). Any recommendations for things to do while I'm there, please? Open to any suggestions but definitely need to fit a long walk, a fish supper and a macaroni pie in somewhere. I don't drive but I'm used to getting around via shit rural public transport and long walks

 

[geminisnake]

Go and see the Kelpies, and if you like mechanical things there's the Falkirk wheel, someone who knows more will hopefully be along shortly I do drive and have never been back to Falkirk after failing(round and round, no idea where I was going) the one way system about 26 yrs ago

 

[Elpenor]

I’ve only heard good things about watching the Falkirk wheel.

 

[Sue]

I'd strongly suggest Linlithgow Palace (you need to pay to get in but it's right next to the train station) and a walk around the loch (free but will be muddy). There also a free museum and there's quite a nice high street though a wander along it won't take you too long.

Visit 2021 — Linlithgow Museum

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www.linlithgowmuseum.org

ETA Ah, just checked and looks like the Palace is closed. Which is a shame as it's really lovely.

 

[iona]

Ha, the Kelpies and the Falkirk Wheel were the first two suggestions on the list I got from googling "things to do in Falkirk". Third on the list was "go to Edinburgh"

(Nothing against Edinburgh, I just don't want to go there for Reasons)

 

[Sue]

Stirling's also nice and on the Falkirk trainline. There's a castle and the Wallace Monument and that.

 

[geminisnake]

Tbh I wouldn't care if I never went to Edinbro again, only go there for the airport and not flown in yrs.

 

[hegley]

Don't know how easy it is to get to from Falkirk but the Lobster Pot at Blackness is meant to be very good for all your fish and chip needs.

 

[StoneRoad]

My suggestions were to be the Kelpies & the Falkirk Wheel - the later had a boat trip available (but I'm not sure if it is running), and an "interpretation centre / cafe" when I was last there [in 2006 !] - but already suggested.

 

[heinous seamus]

I'd invite you to my allotment to put a shift in if I was about this weekend

Cally park is good for a walk, there's a big old tomb hidden in the woods somewhere.

Don't know any Falkirk chippies but Corvis in Bo'ness does a magnificent broon fish supper (smoked haddock). Cabrelli's in Linlithgow is a nice old-fashioned chippy too, although I haven't had one for a while.

 

[nottsgirl]

+1 for the Falkirk Wheel and the kelpies, they are on my geeky dream holiday list.

 

[danny la rouge]

I lived in Falkirk when I was unemployed in the early 80s. It was grim.

 

[iona]

I lived in Falkirk when I was unemployed in the early 80s. It was grim.

Don't visit the 1980s, got it I was gonna leave the tardis at home anyway and take the train.

 

[danny la rouge]

Don't visit the 1980s, got it I was gonna leave the tardis at home anyway and take the train.

Yeah, fair point. But still, after the Kelpies and the Wheel, go to Linlithgow.

 

[iona]

I'm going to Cumbernauld on Friday night. Is there a danny la rouge Visitors Guide to Cumbernauld too?

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm going to Cumbernauld on Friday night. Is there a danny la rouge Visitors Guide to Cumbernauld too?

Don’t.

 

[Sue]

I'm going to Cumbernauld on Friday night. Is there a danny la rouge Visitors Guide to Cumbernauld too?

Stay at home and watch Gregory's Girl instead..?

 

[danny la rouge]

Seriously, there’s nothing in Cumbernauld, unless you like traffic roundabouts. They’ve even knocked down the Gregory’s Girl school.

Palacerigg Park. That’s it.

 

[danny la rouge]

Go to a pub in the Village.

 

[weepiper]

I'm going to Cumbernauld on Friday night. Is there a danny la rouge Visitors Guide to Cumbernauld too?

 

[iona]

I have jiu jitsu friends in Cumbernauld, I'm basically just going there to fight people.

 

[Sue]

I have jiu jitsu friends in Cumbernauld, I'm basically just going there to fight people.

You'll fit right in.

 

[quiet guy]

Oh boy that has to be the shittest advert I've seen in a long while. Must have had a budget of all of 6pence

 

[weepiper]

Oh boy that has to be the shittest advert I've seen in a long while. Must have had a budget of all of 6pence

It was played on STV so often in my youth that I can't hear the phrase 'what's it called?' without mentally finishing it off even now.

 

[19sixtysix]

Palacerigg Park. That’s it.

A sad vision of its 80s heydays. Used to have wolves bison and wild cats. Monklands council got rid of them (CUNTS). I was brought up in Cumbernauld and a walk over the park is nice. It has lots and lots of trees.

 

[Elpenor]

All I know of Cumbernauld is it has or had a huge hmrc office there.

 

[19sixtysix]

Oh and the Tryst pool is still good for a swim.

 

[19sixtysix]

It still has the tax office

 

[danny la rouge]

Back in the 80s, mates of mine were in the (pit) band for a stage musical about anorexia that ran at Cumbernauld Theatre. I went to the closing night and watched it stoned then got pissed with the cast and crew afterwards. Very strange night indeed.

 

[iona]

danny la rouge needs to write a Strange & Grim Scotland guidebook, only all the "attractions" are in the 80s. I'd buy it. Genuinely.