It's festival time - Mark and Euan are in Edinburgh in the midst of the action but also hunting out some quieter spaces

Scotland Outdoors

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Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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It's festival time in Edinburgh but Mark and Euan find a quieter space at Blackford Hill

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0:23.7	Hello, this is the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
0:26.0	I'm Mark Stephen.
0:26.8	He's Ian McElroy.
0:27.6	Thank you very much for downloading us.
0:29.4	Yeah, we have a bit of a different one for us today.
0:31.5	Normally we do this podcast in a car park in Aberdeen.
0:34.3	We've swapped it for a slightly more exotic car park because we're on Blackford
0:38.5	Hill in Edinburgh beside the Royal Observatory. It is a stunning day. We have the vista of the city,
0:44.7	the Lothians, the Pentland Hills. It's a fantastic location. The thinking behind this is quite
0:50.1	simple. This is the end of the first week of the Edinburgh International Festival in Fringe.
0:55.6	Just about two miles that way. Even at this time of the morning will be chaos. There are shows
0:59.5	that kick off at 8.30 in the morning. It's absolute pandemonium. Probably about 3.5, 4,000 shows
1:04.6	happening here. As much art and cultures you could possibly cope with, but occasionally,
1:09.1	you just want somewhere quiet, somewhere to go head off to.
1:11.9	Yeah, I've been in Edinburgh for the last couple of days now, so I thought it'd be a good idea to get
1:15.2	my bearings and also seek out some green spaces, some calm spaces. Jenny Hargreaves is the Senior Natural Heritage
1:21.7	Office of Edinburgh City Council, and she looks after Blackford Hill here, where we are at the moment,
1:26.9	and a delightful little hidden glen.
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