Night or day people throng Buchanan, the city’s main pedestrian shopping street. At one end sits the Royal Concert Hall, atop steep steps offering a long view all the way to the River Clyde. The posh House of Fraser department store takes up considerable real estate, with windows hawking Prada and Hermes. British stores like All Saints Spittalfields, Top Shop, and FatFace (whoever thought that was a good name for a hipster boutique?) compete with too many US interlopers: Urban Outfitters, North Face, and Apple. If you want a bespoke kilt with all the accessories, this is the place to go. It’s also where beggars and buskers ply their trade, including the inevitable pipers. The grizzled-looking Clanadonians (whose motto is “keeping it tribal”) are always able to draw a crowd with their booming drumbeats and blaring bagpipes.
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