Edinburgh Outdoors

Mar 06 2025 16 ep. 25 mins 4
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Edinburgh Outdoors is a podcast exploring the city’s green spaces and the people in them. From community gardens to secret spaces or learning about both our history and our future, getting outside brings benefit to everyone, and Edinburgh outdoors is the best place to be!

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The Pentland Hills with Sean Magee

Mar 06 2025 22 mins  
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 s

Pilrig Park with Griffen Fitness

Feb 25 2025 21 mins  
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

Lost Shore Surf Resort

Feb 13 2025 30 mins  
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

'Netwalking' with Katie Paterson and the Outsiders

Feb 04 2025 25 mins  
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 loca

Discovering Calton Hill and the Conservation Trust

Jan 28 2025 23 mins  
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 hill

Dunbars Close and plant explorers with Hetty's History Walks

Jan 15 2025 34 mins  
The first episode of Season 2: 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

Geology, James Hutton and Holyrood Park

Dec 16 2024 25 mins  
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 signifi

Forest bathing with Anna Neubert Wood

Dec 02 2024 25 mins  
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 includ

Exploring new paths with Charlie Ellis

Nov 19 2024 21 mins  
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

Beekeeping: West Linton and District Beekeepers Association

Nov 05 2024 22 mins  
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, swa