Our guide to 11 AMAZING PARKS in EDINBURGH
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Did you know that Edinburgh is one of the greenest cities in Europe? Today we are gonna be exploring all these green gems (isn't that also a type of lettuce?) in Scotland's capital to see which ones are the best for your picnic, exercise or just romantic wander needs!
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That was great fun ! , i would recommend Saughton park which has a huge playground , one of the largest skateboarding sites in the UK and a fantastic redeveloped walled garden , Lauriston Castle has a Chinese garden , a croquet lawn and amazing views of Cramond island and Fife , Cammo house estate is also worth a visit with a moat , tower and summer meadows. The city council looks after them but they are not actual parks !. :-)
Favorite park is Piers Park in East Boston, Massachusetts USA but hoping to find a park in Edinburgh to win my heart. I’m hedging toward Starbank Park for the honor. Hope to visit Edinburgh later this year to find out . Thank you both for a wonderful informative video!!!!!! 😊🙋♀️
Braid Burn Valley, a little south of Morningside, edge of Oxgangs. More dramatic and multi dimensional than most Edinburgh city parks, (apart from Holyrood). Leads you to the Braid Hills, a teaser for the Pentlands beyond.
Lovely video, kept waiting for Figgate Park to pop up but alas, no. It's definitely my favourite in Edinburgh but not many outside Portobello/Duddingston seem to know it!
I did feel bad for not including it - only really discovered it after doing all the prep and most of the shoot for this video. At least we have something left to shoot videos about in the future haha!
Great video! Eighteen years after emigrating to New Zealand from Edinburgh, I never thought I'd be watching a video including Starbank Park. We used to sledge down that road in winter :-)
It's incredible to see how much things have changed with signs and paths. Please keep producing the videos. You're keeping me in touch with a life I thought I'd had to abandon.
What other parks make you all happy? We might do a parks video in other cities!
Think I spied you two in the queue for Starbucks on Princes St the other day! :) Another fave of mine is Figgate Park in Portobello - especially in the autumn!
Very likely us, we spend far too much money on coffee.
The intro was so fun and well done!
To go to the blackford hills ,get the bus to morningside (11,15,,16,5) . to the south is the hermitage which joins up with the blackford hills(the golf is played on the braid hills also a good park but separate from the blackfords)
The "cleft" on Arthur's seat is called Hunters bog.
Great video, though you need to do part 2 and 3, there are 32 parks in Edinburgh that have been awarded green flag awards.
If you want a serious hike go to Flotterston, which is about 5 miles behind the pentlands south. As a kid we would hike and camp for days, take a map though it's 10,000 hectares.
Love your videos 😍 miss Edinburgh so much
That intro was pure gold 😂😂 love it!
What a fun and infomative video. I look forward to visiting these parks on my next visit to Edinburgh. Also, big props on the Parks & Rec-styled intro. Spot on.
This video is really amazing, thanks a lot :) I lived in Edinburgh many years ago as an Erasmus student and this video made me want to go back again at once!! Holyrood Park was my favourite park at the time, and it was so easily accessible since I stayed at Pollock Halls! But the Meadows and Craigmillar Parks are also wonderful! Actually all parks in Edinburgh are fantastic and it's a fantastic city with a lot of green areas.
What a lovely theme for a video! Please - pretty please - do a Part 2, as there are so many more wonderful places that deserve to be included, such as Saughton Park, Harrison Park, Hailes Quarry Park, Craiglockhart Park, Colinton Dell - with Redhall Walled Garden, Spylaw Park (and maybe include the nearby Colinton Railway Tunnel community art project), Braidburn Park, Hermitage of Braid and Ellen's Glen Park - to name just a few! Officially opened by the Princess Royal a few years ago - and at the end of a £9M investment programme, Saughton Park is now the home of the Royal Caledonian Society and as well as the historic rose gardens [a legacy of an 18th Century private asylum on part of the site that had pioneered horticulture as a therapeutic activity], includes an Italian-style sunken garden, topiary, a physic garden, winter gardens, a newly resurrected bandstand whose pieces had lain in store for decades, a demonstration garden, a wildflower meadow, a new visitor centre with toilets, cafe and educational facilities, long avenues of exotic flower and shrub borders, various sculptures and artwork, a large skatepark and children's play area, outdoor gym facilities, sports pitches and the Water of Leith alone the southern edge - where resides a family of otters, at least one kingfisher, herons, foxes and a whole plethora of other wildlife! It is accessible by buses 1 ,2, 3, 22, X22, X23, 25, 30, 33 & 38. The Water of Leith - which effectively forms a linear park has a visitor centre on Lanark Road, conveniently opposite the main entrance to Craiglockhart & Colinton Dells - a very popular wooded valley with picnic and even swimming areas - and an industrial history of milling producing everything from flax and snuff to paper and porridge, going back many centuries! Redhall Walled Garden - which dates from about 1780 and in now in the hands of Samh - Scotland's Mental Health Charity, which operates an excellent therapeutic mental health service, is accessible over the footbridge from this path or from Lanark Road/Redhall View (bus 44). It is usually open to the public every weekday for pleasure, plant sales, picnics and toilets. Covid-permitting, there are normally 4-5 weekend open days with a cafe and other activities, per year. Further upriver still is Spylaw Park - house and garden of Colinton Mill's owner in former times - the car park of which was the site of the former railway station - and from which the amazing community art project that has transformed Colinton Tunnel may be accessed. Braidburn Park is self-explanatory, while the Braiod Burn also passes through the deep wooded ravine known as Hermitage of Braid (where there's also a visitor centre and cafe); and eventually, also Ellen's Glen!
Thank you so much for the tip and the detailed info you shared! If I do get to make another one I will absolutely come back to this comment for reference! .)
Wow, sounds like that whole side of Edinburgh was ignored!
I have to say, your uploads are really quite awesome. I'm a Canadian of Scottish decent and have been to the country and can't wait to get back. I am a research maniac and you help me greatly even though you are not a Scot native. I appreciate your insights and find your videos very helpful. Thank you very much for your time and effort with your informative videos!
Awww thank you so very much Jimmy! So glad these are helpful with your Scotland research - hopefully not long until you can translate all the prep into another trip .) (and seriously, thank you for the kind words!)
Loved this, thank you for reviewing such wonderful parks. That intro was the best!
I love "hidden gemmy" im gonna steal it. Its mine now
This is a great channel for me as I've just moved back home to Edinburgh after living in Prague for two years and I miss it so much so seeing a Czech person from Prague get excited about Edinburgh helps me to experience it again through different eyes! Also i grew up here and spent my childhood playing on corstorphine hill and I never actually knew it was called Hillwood park! It was always just corstorphine hill so learn something new every day lol!
Great and well done. Ciao friends 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you very much!
Loving your videos, thank you for all the effort you guys put into these. Going to Edinburgh in Jan 24, can't wait, your videos have definitely givin me inspiration with my own itinerary.
Brilliant as ever and I loved the starting titles.....I think they have to be a permanent feature now!
Thanks for your videos! I watch them with my pupils at school, very great and useful resource for practicing English. Cheers and keep going!
That is SO SO sweet. I come from a family that's 80% teachers and I'm often like "...why am I not teaching, is there something wrong with my life choices?" but whenever I read a comment like this it really makes me feel I at least get to help out with someone else's classes and there's this strange sense of fulfilment in it!
Lovely video! Cheers!!
#totheendsquad represent! :D. Great informative vid. I'll have to remember this vid when I eventually move there. Production was very good too, well shot.
OMG, that intro is the best thing ever!! You two are awesome!! :D
Glad you love it! Simon has possibly spent more time on editing the P&R intro than I did on the whole rest of the video x) but I think it was worth it! Parks and Rec are one of our all time faves!! .)
I'm so pumped up to get there soon... Thank u for those wonderful tips!
You are very welcome! Glad you found the video helpful! .)
Wasn’t expecting the cool intro..nice work! I’m pure dyin to get to Edinburgh this year, hopefully in a few months… awsome video
That introduction was adorable. Also that eggplant color of your coat looks great on you. You know I have to make some kind of comment about your coat, your clothing or your glasses, your hair color, you’re always stylish. (I am not)
Really great video, some really great nuances of each park.
Haha, when you live in Edinburgh, coats are the only thing one can truly get excited about, outfit planning wise!
Thank you for watching as always!!!
This is excellent, thank you!
Try a walk from the south end of Braidburn Valley Park (#5 or #16 bus) up to the traffic lights on Comiston Rd.; cross to Greenbank Parish Church and walk the block up Braidburn Terrace to the wee roundabout, then turn right onto Braid Road...then, at the bottom on the hill turn left into the Hermitage of Braid. This is on the back side of Blackford Hill and is a wild ravine that leads across to Liberton, at which one can turn left and walk (or take a bus) up into the Old Town. (If walking take the left - Mayfield Rd. - fork in the road, which will take you up to Causewayside, the east end of the Meadows and the Old Town.) It's a good distance but highly enjoyable on a nice, dry day.
Loved the video. I moved to Edinburgh from South Africa at the end of 2020. Your videos were a BIG part of my decision.
Keep it up, Kakibot!
Aww really? That means a lot to me! Glad I could be helpful, and also hoping you're enjoying your new life here despite things being a bit less than ideal now!
The last is the best 👍🏼
Hi, or rather g’day, from Australia. Thank you for your tour of Edinburgh’s parks. In the 1950’s I recall as a child frequenting Inverleith park, since I went to school at Flora Stevenson’s. We also lived not far from Corstorphine park, and 24:20 bring back memories. When we visited the zoo we would always exit at the top and walk back over the hill and through this park to catch a bus at Queensferry Road.
amazing video. thanks!!
I can only apologise for the state of my hair in that intro :)
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great vlog, love the editing.
Aw they are all so cool 💕
O M G That intro was amazing! ❤
Love it!
Fantastic and great! You were an amazing host, we could have used more of Simon on this one! :)
Spring is here! Yay! I really wanna go to one of those parks and get some sun. Photosynthesis!
I was so thrown off by the intro 😱 I was getting something and not watching the intro so I just heard the song.. currently watching Parcs en rec for the first time. So I was so confused for a second because I recognized it immediately but didn’t know from what.. thought my tablet switched apps by accident 😵💫
In a few days I will see your beautiful Edinburgh for myself so I’m binging all of your videos now ❤️
That intro! 😍😍😍
Hahaha that intro was the BEST!
Places are beautiful just like you💖 I do wanna visit Edinburgh soon!! And would want to meet you 😍 love from India💫
I love Inverleith Park, the view is really great. When I spent a month in Edinburgh back in 2017 I stayed near St Marks Park and it was a nice place to spend a sunny evening and see dogs and squirrels, and I sometimes went running from St Marks to Inverleith and back, it's really not far - less than 2km between the two.
I live in Sao Paulo and my favorite park here is Ibirapuera, it's a big park with lots of things to do including several museums but is very crowded. I also like to go hiking at Parque Estadual da Cantareira, which has Atlantic Forest vegetation, lots of animals and great views of the city but is quite far from everything.
Sao Paulo parks sound amazing! Sounds like it's worth the travel to get to the Parque Estadual da Cantareira - your description really made me wanna visit!
Thank you for recommending the Starbank park :) best park so far
This video was really amazing and a treat to watch .
Thank you! Much appreciated .)
@@Kakibot You are wrong about there being nothing but wilderness and the Pentland Hills south of Blackford Hill. What about half of Morningside, Newington, the Braid Hills, Comiston, Colinton (ever been to Colinton Dell? Or the Hermitage? You should.) Fairmilehead...etc.?
@@lorddaver5729 I can guarantee that if I used the word "wilderness", it was meant half-jokingly.
I love your videos
Thanks so much for this video! Question about dogs: in a lot of videos I'm surprised to see them off-leash, is that common? Also when you said "cycle paths" I heard "psychopaths" which gave me a chuckle.
Hahaha yes when I say cycle path I often mishear it the same way from myself too .DD and yes to your question too, dog owners very often let their dogs roam free. Might be also that many of the parks are very large and don't have any high-speed roads around!
I Want to see more of Hollyrood park and Blackford hill!!! Do a video about wich trails you should pick (start and and) and wich spots are te best witch casual / no hiking or full on sport shoes / outfit :)
I grew up in Edinburgh and you mentioned a couple of parks that I didn't know about. The Meadows, I knew very well, more so the Links at the South-west end of the Meadows, that you mentioned briefly..... they are two separate parks by the way....... to those of us who grew up in the 50s anyway..... In the Summer holidays in the 50s, my pals and I would meet up in the Links and play footie from just after breakfast until the sun set..... going home briefly for some lunch and coming back to join in the same game that never stopped! You have a healthy interest in Edinburgh :-) Can I suggest two sets of books that you might find interesting? Two volumes of "Villages of Edinburgh" by Malcolm Cant, and three volumes of "Historic South Edinburgh", by Charles Smith. I would think these books might be easily bought in one of the many second-hand book shops in town.
Your observation about the space between Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags being like being in the Highlands is spot on.
St Margaret's Loch in Holyrood and Blackford Pond are great for bats (and rats, if you're into that).
Blackford and Corstophine Hills are the best mushroom foraging places in Autumn.
Interesting! Also... despite coming from an extremely enthusiastic mushroom foraging culture, I'm still a bit worried to pick them myself! Gotta import my parents here for that, haha!
@@Kakibot My approach is, study the tastiest varieties until you know them thoroughly, and also the most poisonous ones and exactly what they do to your body. Then you have a proper appreciation of the pros and cons. Personally I only pick the most delicious: the porcini, chanterelles, horse, saffron milk-cap, and a few others. But I always make sure they are the real thing.
Great video guys! But c’mon, what about Harrison Park!? :)
All of them!!!!! XD
Haha, Parks and Recreation!
hell yeah
Would like to see the forest in the Leigh.
You should try the figgate park
Meadows has to be my fave, not very original but hey, there's always a buzz and close to nice areas. Also love the botanics but they're not really a 'park'. Didn't know there was a pond in Inverleith Park. Where is it in relation to the Botanics?
Meadows are popular for a reason! No judgement here! Haha . And yeah if you left the Botanics through the west gate and walked right into Inverleith park, you then pretty much just have to walk to the middle of it and it's gonna be on your left side as you walk towards Stockbridge/castle views!
@@Kakibot Thanks, looking forward to more Edinburgh vids now lockdown coming to an end, never mind coming in to Edinburgh again myself!! It'll be like New York after so long stuck in the sticks haha
Please! I want to see a house tour
How far away is the football club?.
I love love love your videos and Edinburgh so much! Can you make a video „best places to meet (local) people“ for people to travel alone or something like that?
I dream to live in Edinburgh too. I hope it will come true ❤️
Greetings from Germany 😊
You forgot to tell us what the ruin in Hollyrood Park is!
Oh beans!!!! *frantic googling* it’s Saint Anthony’s chapel ruins!
You look like Karen Gillan and she's scottish too haha
Aw I WISH! She's my Scottish girl crush!
I want to travel to your country, Scotland. What is the solution?