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This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio

Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

As you know, we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast

from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

which is called Out of Doors.

And this week it's all about the ships,

the very tall ships, of course,

that have arrived in Lerwick.

... The The Welcome to the surreal world of the tall ships race in Lowick Shedland.

Right now the Indonesian band are playing jingle bells for reasons that are only apparent to them.

The three drummers at the front are disguised as walruses,

and behind that there are three guys disguised as sharks.

Having said that, they're incredibly smart.

That was yesterday, and trust me, it didn't get any more sensible. It was the Indonesian drummers

welcoming the Princess Royal to Lerwick in Shedland, where the tall ship's race has been stopping

off this week, and I don't know whether you can hear that, but that is the sound of about

...