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Edinburgh Outdoors

Edinburgh Outdoors is a podcast exploring the city’s green spaces and the people in them. From community gardens to secret spaces, learning about the city’s history or just finding a space to breathe, getting outside brings benefit to everyone, and being outdoors in Edinburgh is the best place to be!

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35:23

Tandem Cycling with VIE Velo

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2025/04/08

VIE Velo is an Edinburgh cycling community that pairs sighted and sight impaired cyclists who head out on tandems together. This club is an example of how a passion for cycling transcends the usual volunteer/participant set-up, with all members of the club simply being there because they love cycling. You'll also hear how much they love stopping for cake and chat too. I was blown away by the positivity and welcome I received from the members of VIE Velo and enjoyed talking to them about cycling,

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26:30

The Lochend Park Mystery with Hetty's History Walks

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2025/03/27

Could Lochend Park be the actual location of the famous Skating Minister painting by Henry Raeburn called: 'Skating on Duddingston Loch'? Regular contributor, Hetty Lancaster, offers listeners an artistic challenge as she reveals the clues within the painting's background which indicate the loch where he skates may not be Duddingston, but might actually be at Lochend. Hetty takes us on a tour of Lochend Park to the North East of the City Centre. The Park contains one of only two remaining

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30:49

Dry Stone Walling with Richard Love

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2025/03/19

Richard Love changed career in his mid forties to become a dry stone waller and has enjoyed a long career in the outdoors creating everything from Pentland walls to works of art for artists. Richard and I met in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh to view the Nepalese prayer gate, a project he worked on some years ago. We rang the bell on the gate and talked about how it was constructed and how it stays standing, his career as a dry stone waller, his teaching of the craft, his previous role

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22:55

The Pentland Hills with Sean Magee

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2025/03/06

Sean Magee headed outdoors and launched CPS Activities after a long career in recruitment, first aid training and social care. Having found the career of his dreams means Sean can now take put his well-honed teaching skills into practice up in the hills teaching navigational skills, outdoors awareness, rock climbing and mountain guiding. In a first for Edinburgh Outdoors we were slightly inside and started out talking in Sean's campervan in Castlelaw carpark on a Sunday morning, but once the sun

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21:34

Pilrig Park with Griffen Fitness

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2025/02/25

Tracy Griffen is a really impressive personal trainer who uses the outdoors as a core part of her workouts. After leaving Australia thirty years ago, Tracy has built a business that brings the Scottish outdoors into people's active lives. Like many of us she relishes the changing seasons and brings a sense of nature into her courses and sessions. We walked round Pilrig Park which is to the North East of Edinburgh and has previously been a private garden of a grand house and the site of a 16th

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30:23

Lost Shore Surf Resort

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2025/02/13

The Lost Shore Surf Resort is Edinburgh's coolest new activity centre and so much more. Set beside the International Climbing Arena in Ratho to the west of the city and close to the airport, Lost Shore is centred around Europe's largest surf pool. In addition to the pool the site includes luxury lodges, a wellness centre and events space, a restaurant, saunas and a surf shop. Even in mid January the place was buzzing!The technology within the pool creates a range of waves that are ideal for

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25:27

'Netwalking' with Katie Paterson and the Outsiders

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2025/02/04

Katie Paterson is a truly inspiring and talented woman who has cycled round the world on an astounding journey, worked on national campaigns to get more people outside and launched the hugely successful The Outsiders outdoor networking group. Now in it's second year, the group brings together sole traders and freelancers to 'netwalk' in the outdoors once a month in a different location in Edinburgh. The group is inclusive and friendly and is growing fast, bringing a support network and providing a

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23:00

Discovering Calton Hill and the Conservation Trust

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2025/01/28

Calton Hill Conservation Trust is a relatively new team of volunteers who are preserving and enhancing the historic Calton Hill right in the middle of the city. Set above Princes Street with stunning views in all directions, Calton Hill is a popular spot for visitors to escape the streets and see what it is that makes Edinburgh such a stunning location. With views to the local hills, to Fife across the water and to the mountains in the North West, no wonder the hill attracts so many visitors. I

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34:11

Dunbars Close and plant explorers with Hetty's...

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2025/01/15

Dunbars Close on the Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town is a reimagined seventeeth century garden and is well worth a visit. Containing eight distinct areas, the garden combines formal shapes with more informal planting and features over 190 plants which were within Scotland around that time. Many have medicinal properties and were brought to Scotland by adventurous plant explores. The garden was created by a charity called The Mushroom Trust. I explored the garden with regular contributor and

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25:10

Geology, James Hutton and Holyrood Park

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/12/16

The final podcast of Season 1 discovers Edinburgh's fascinating geology and the role played in the eighteenth century by the father of modern geology: James Hutton. I met up with geologist Angus Miller of Geowalks in the James Hutton Memorial Garden and he filled me in on how Hutton's thinking was so groundbreaking and influential, even in the modern day. We looked at some significant rocks within the garden, which have been brought from all over Scotland, and then walked on Salisbury Crags in

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25:49

Forest bathing with Anna Neubert Wood

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/12/02

Anna Neubert Wood runs her own business, Wander Women. She created it to take women initially - but now everyone including individuals and groups - into the wilds to find peace, tranquility and childlike fun.After a childhood in East Germany and flexi-schooling her children, Anna has created experiences that bring escape in the outdoors in and around Edinburgh. Her offering includes wild swimming, picnicking, firelighting and forest bathing, amongst others - all to help us find mindfulness in

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21:57

Exploring new paths with Charlie Ellis

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/11/19

Charlie Ellis is a writer and walker with a keen interest in Edinburgh's former railways that are now footpaths and cycle routes. He enjoys heading off to explore old paths and to find new, or potential, ones. When we met up he took me off to find some existing and potential paths, including the Powderhall Line which was only closed in 2016 and is the subject of a campaign to have it joined into the North Edinburgh path network. After viewing some paths we talked writing, memories and discovering

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22:26

Beekeeping: West Linton and District Beekeepers...

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/11/05

Learning all about bees: on a driech day in Edinburgh I went to visit the West Linton & District Beekeepers group in an equally driech Carlops, in the Pentland Hills. There weren't many bees buzzing around on the day I dropped by to the apiary as it was a bit cold, but I still spent a brilliant hour with a great group of enthusiasts.We talked all things bees, cold summers, swarms and the benefits of an absorbing hobby in the outdoors. They were a fascinating group of bee experts and

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29:15

Antonine Wall: finding the Romans

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/11/05

Having occupied Britain for hundreds of years, the Romans had a huge impact on our culture, landscape and history. I met the team from the now complete Rediscovering the Antonine Wall project to find out how they had worked with the line of the Antonine Wall - the Central Belt's own Roman wall (or what remains of it) to connect communities. We talked about Roman history, some fascinating finds along the wall and we also visited some of their projects around Auchinstarry and Croy, including the

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28:22

Hetty's History Walks: Holyrood Park

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/11/01

Hetty's History Walks is run by historian, Hetty Lancaster. She runs tours across the city introducing both visitors and locals to fascinating facts about Edinburgh and its past. We met on a sunny autumn day in Holyrood Park - the King's park which surrounds the Palace of Holyroodhouse and is a wild and beautiful spot right in the middle of the city. Hetty is going to join me regularly over the next few months, introducing us to different areas of Edinburgh and their history. To kick things off

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18:01

Pentland Aromatics: meeting at the Dalkeith Country...

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/10/21

Earlier this month I headed off to the outdoors Saturday market at Dalkeith Country Park to meet up with Nadine Pierce of Pentland Aromatics. She has created a range of natural scented products from her home in the heart of the Pentlands, inspired by the stunning location where she lives. Bringing nature inside through a range of scents, Nadine has taken her business from a lockdown soap-making hobby to becoming a successful retailer with a great brand. We talked keeping warm at outdoor markets,

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22:26

West Linton District Beekeepers

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/10/07

Learning all about bees: on a driech day in Edinburgh I went to visit the West Linton & District Beekeepers group in an equally driech Carlops, in the Pentland Hills. There weren't many bees buzzing around on the day I dropped by to the apiary as it was a bit cold, but I still spent a brilliant hour with a great group of enthusiasts. We talked all things bees, cold summers, swarms and the benefits of an absorbing hobby in the outdoors. They were a fascinating group of bee experts and

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16:49

Litter picking at the beach with Keep Porty Tidy

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/09/19

What's the weirdest thing you've ever found on a beach? Listen to this episode and find out how rewarding litter picking within the friendly Portobello community can be. You'll also hear from Keep Porty Tidy organiser, Colin Cornwall, on his strangest find, latest projects and his lifelong love of Portobello. With the usual Edinburgh wind, lots of beachgoers and some giant fake seagulls as well as a few real ones, there was a lot going on, but we managed to find out how you too can volunteer, or

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18:25

Volunteering and rejuvenation at Jock Tamson’s Gairden

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/09/05

Jock Tamson's Gairden on the shores of Duddingston Loch is the most extraordinary place. Home to community groups and charities, it uses the power of nature and gardening to help many people enjoy the outdoors and find healing and support in this beautiful space. I visited on a classic Edinburgh windy day and met the inspirational head gardener, Lizz Spence, who talked about the team's entry in the Kilt Walk later this month which will raise much needed funds for the brilliant work being done in

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23:08

Nature and history on Easter Craiglockhart Hill

Edinburgh Outdoors ·

2024/08/26

Welcome to this new podcast seeking out Edinburgh's green spaces. I started by diving into some gorgeous nature sights and sounds right in the heart of the city. Jim Heath, Chair of the Friends of Easter Craiglockhart Hill told Edinburgh Outdoors about the hill's unique nature, wildlife and history. From sparrowhawks to overgrown bowling greens, the Hill is a wonderful place to find views, tranquility and opportunities to volunteer.

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