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🗓️ 25 July 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Mark and Euan revisit a trip they made to the Islands at the Edge of the World in 2011
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0:34.2 | Sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast, brought to you by BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:47.2 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of Outdoors. I'm Mark Stephen, he's you in Macalraith. |
0:51.5 | We have travelled the length and breadth of Scotland over the many, many years we've been doing |
0:55.9 | this programme, but I think this is |
0:57.9 | one of the most memorable trips we've |
1:00.1 | ever made. Ewan and I |
1:01.9 | headed off to this location back in |
1:03.6 | 2011. Yeah, |
1:06.0 | we were off to St Kilda, the most remote |
1:08.1 | part of the British Isles, 41 miles |
1:10.2 | west of Ben Becula, and pretty |
1:12.2 | such to say, of all the places we've been on Outer Doors, as you were saying, St Kilda stands |
1:18.5 | out as very much our favourite. |
1:20.9 | It has the sort of moniker of being islands at the edge of the world, and that actually |
1:25.6 | fits them remarkably well. |
1:26.9 | They are islands, plural, rather than just one. |
1:29.8 | There's Herta, Soe, Borre, and all the associated, really quite dramatic, remarkable sea stacks. |
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