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Scotland Outdoors

North Coast 500 Leg One

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Euan set off on the NC500 route around the North of Scotland.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:29.9

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0:32.8

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0:40.2

I'm very excited.

0:42.0

We're starting from a very different car park.

0:44.4

We've got a couple of robins in the background

0:46.4

who got applebossum on the tree.

0:48.8

And we're in the BBC Inverness car park

0:51.0

at the start of a really exciting journey.

1:05.0

Music Inverness Car Park at the start of a really exciting journey. This is the start of something called the North Coast 500. Now it's not been on the go terribly long but it is revolutionising businesses and life to a certain extent in the north of Scotland.

1:13.2

We start off in Inverness, we've got up East Coast, we're going across the north, this is how

1:16.4

we're choosing to do it, and then we're coming right down the West Coast again and then ending

1:19.6

up back in Inverness.

1:20.9

It was a bit of debate, because I thought the natural way would be kind of the way we're doing

1:25.8

it.

1:26.0

Got the East Coast, get rid of that,

1:27.8

and get into the proper stuff.

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