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Scotland Outdoors

Travels With A Pink Tablecloth

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen meets long distance walker Claudia Zeiske in Peterhead after the completion of her 220 km walk from the Cairngorns to the coast of Aberdeenshire. Along the way she has been collecting stories of the effect COVID had on the communities she passed through. In her rucksack has been a bright pink tablecloth which she has embroidered messages on and invited those she has met to sign

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:27.4

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0:29.9

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0:32.8

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0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.2

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

0:47.9

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:49.0

And in this edition of Scotland Outdoors,

0:50.9

I meet up with a remarkable lady.

0:53.0

Her name is Claudia Zaiska. And over the last couple of years, she's been walking from mountain to sea right the way across Aberdeenshire, meeting communities along the way post-COVID to discover the effect the pandemic had on them. Now, I met up with Claudia at the end of her journey in Peter Head in what, as you will hear, was an exceptionally blustery day

1:12.7

on the northeast coast.

1:15.2

We are just walking

1:16.9

down to a bench

1:19.6

that we just created.

1:22.0

A lot of other benches, eight benches

1:24.7

from mountain to sea.

1:26.3

So we started on Ben McDouye and then set the first

1:30.0

bench on hutchison hut. And yeah, there's this range of benches. The furthest western point is

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