Roliing Pone: There Can Only Be Win*
Notes from Bronyscot 2018, Fifth Year in a Row
How To Run A Small But Fun Convention... Rock Nessie Concert On Sunday... Worth the Costs
by Foal Duke, International Affairs Correspondent, Glasgow 9-11 November 2018
Note: this is a repost from last year to serve as a guide for newcomers this year. See the section Getting There in particular.
The Glasgow Botanic Gardens, one of the city's main attractions.
So. the final European convention of the year has just come and gone.
Bronyscot has come into its fifth year, and the event was, like always, small but with a lot of punch behind it. Over two days, with the con on Saturday at the Hilton Grosvenor and Rock Nessie on Sunday at the Classic Grand, the social scene in Europe is still thriving, it appears. With only one real hitch, the con was run better than last year, and yet again people have come to some windswept island in the atlantic from across Europe for it.
It costs a fair bit, bit it's worth it if you want to make friends and have a good time, especially if you have friends going that can join you for a hammered headbanging hootenanny. And if you book early, prices are a lot cheaper. I recommend it to any readers in the Americas, too - but you should perhaps take a week's autumn vacation on the Isles, or even as part of a two week tour to see RuBronyCon in Moscow, which takes place at a similar time and, being Russia, Aeroflot prices are cheap. Then it'll
definitely be worth it. Glasgow is a friendly place with a ton of things to do.
Read on after the break!
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*Working title:
Five-lander.