Welcome to this beautiful remote location here
deep in the heart of the Scottish highlands
actually, I'm kidding we're literally only a mile away from the centre of
Edinburgh this is Holyrood park and I thought I'd
go for a little hike up Arthur's Seat fancy joining me welcome to RogVLOG.
Welcome to Holyrood park the home of Arthur's Seat
and those rather splendid cliffs up there the Salisbury Crags
now today it's my intention to have a walk up
to the top of Salisbury Crags I'm not going to go to the
summit of Arthur's Seat though it's a long way up and there's a good reason i
don't want to go all the way
while the rest of Britain has been basking in blazing sun
here in Edinburgh for the last week and a half it's been torrential rain
every day and I'm just a bit worried that climbing to the top of our first
seat today might not be a good idea slippery rocks
slippery grass recipe for disaster
by the way thanks for watching last week's Edinburgh after lockdown video
had quite a lot of good feedback on that and you know what it's still pretty
quiet even here in the outdoors at Holyrood park still not that many
people about
before we start climbing any hills though I thought I'd just give you a
little bit of information about what's around here
in Holyrood park the white building you can see over my shoulder the one that
looks a little bit like the O2 arena in London
that's Dynamic Earth it's a sort of a museum dedicated to the history of earth
lots of special effects cool things to do experiments to try out and it's a
great day out
this is a Scottish parliament building now from a distance
it looks like it's predominantly made of sticks
and actually as you get up close you find that they are actually
wooden attachments I guess it's modern architecture
and just beside the Scottish parliament the Royal Mile walk
up there a mile and you'll come to the castle and the centre of Edinburgh
and across the road the other way that's the entrance to Holyrood House
which of course is one of the Queen's official residences
time to climb but not this way there's been rockfalls
well the sun's come out a little and so has the sweat
I think I was right not to go all the way up to the top
of Arthur's Seat the ground is definitely too slippery for these shoes
so maybe another day to the top of Arthur's Seat
by the way do you know why it's called Arthur's Seat
stick around to the end of the video and I'll tell you
we have a perfect view of those places we visited before Dynamic Earth
the parliament and Holyrood House
time to return to the car and a well-deserved
bottle of Irn Bru
oh I needed that that was actually quite tiring I haven't done that walk up to
Salisbury Crags for five or six years but I really
enjoyed getting back up there fabulous views over the city absolutely
stunning and of course I promised I would tell
you why it's called Arthur's Seat well it's quite simple really it's where
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