Walking from Edinburgh to Aberdour via the Forth Bridges - we know how to celebrate 15k subs :)
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2021
- Getting to 15k subscribers was a big deal for me. So when we had a Friday off with nothing to do, we decided to go for a 15 mile walk to celebrate - yes we know how to party :D Our only plan was to head north as it would take us out over the Forth Bridges, but our 15 mile calculation didn't quite take us where we wanted to go - so how far did we end up walking???
Walk recorded on Friday 4th June 2021.
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What wonderful content, presented by a thoroughly likable pair. I have watched this video two or three times, now. I get more enjoyment out of watching one of Steve's videos for the second or third time than watching most other videos for the first time. It's kind of like re-experiencing a favorite walking route versus a new, dull one. Sometimes you just know that you can't go wrong. I even sit through the commercials instead of skipping them, knowing it helps Steve (and sometimes Alicja) to keep traveling and to share their experiences with the world.
Such a happy couple, always a bright spot in the day (even this already sunny one). Congrats on the 15k and no, I don't think this is the end either.
Cheers Johannes :)
This was so lovely to watch as I have so many fun memories from my childhood of the two original bridges whenever I visited my Scottish grandparents in Fife (good ol' Dunfermline and inverkeithing). Hope to get back there some day. Best wishes Steve from across the channel and congrats on the milestone !
Thanks so much Matthew - I might be a bit closer, but a lot of memories over there for me too, really need to get back more often!
I came across you channel by accident. Great walk. I live in London but visit Scotland regularly. I will be looking at you old videos. Congratulations on 15K subscribers. That is hard to do these days.
Thanks so much for the support Robert! All the best to you in London!
Hi Steve new subscriber here! My husband and I are working our way through your back catalogue and loving them. We are trying to think of challenges for you, but you seem to have done them all 😂 I felt your pain at the end of this video, jelly legs! Look forward to watching many more, you two are a joy to watch 😍
Nice to be watching this when you've almost reached 150k subscribers. (You apppeared in my recommendations a few months ago, and I'm catching up with your past videos.)
Loved the long walking tour - especially all the details that Steve pointed out - I was googling all the landmarks as the video played - excellent excellent tour - I'm watching from Milwaukee Wisconsin US but feel like I was there today. Thanks Steve ( and hanks to his daughter too!). Tom RUPPERT from Wisconsin
Cracking video Steve. Funnily enough my dad mentioned only last week that he wanted to walk across the bridges at some point this summer and then this gem pops up.
Well done on 15k followers too, great work
Thanks so much Lee! Really appreciate it from a fellow creator! Hope our wee video has whet his appetite for a bridge walk :) All the best to you
Loved this! I walked part of the Fife Coastal Path this past Saturday from BurntIsland to Kirkcaldy (I can’t walk as far as you two). So beautiful. I’ll definitely be going back to walk more of it. After watching this, I want to walk over the bridge and through North Queensferry. 😊
Congratulations on 15K subscribers! 🎉
Thanks so much Wendy! Can't wait to get back over and do the whole coastline (over a few days of course!) :)
Congrats on the 15k!!!
You guys make awesome content 👌
Scotland is beautiful 🏴
Thank you once again 👍
The thanks go to you for the support! :)
Always enjoy the journeys with you both 🤗🤗
congrats on reaching 15k subscribers
always nice to see Edinburgh again
That was fantastic. Thank you. Very informative running commentary with a variety of footage. That area has been on my bucket list for decades. I’m surprised at how muddy the banks are at low tide - yet it’s still appealing. Dave, Australia
Beautiful journey. Thanks for the wonderful video!
Brilliant! I thoroughly enjoyed watching this VLOG. Congratulations on your milestone! BTW, loved your views of the Forth Bridge from North Queensferry! It really shows what a remarkable, imposing structure it is!
Cheers Bill! That view out over the Forth never gets old! It's a beautiful piece of engineering :)
Another terrific video. Such engaging commentary and great views. You have a real ability to make the viewer feel like they are on the journey with you (without the tired legs!). Please keep them coming. I've never seen such good vlogs.
Really appreciated Julian! Thanks again for coming along on our random adventures :)
Really enjoyed this many thanks for sharing.
The FoF Railway Bridge is such a masterpiece! Thank you for sharing that walk with us...
Congrats on 15k subscribers Steve. Proud to be one of them from Hong Kong! Always loved your videos!
Thanks so much Ryan! All the best to you!
Love the fourth bridge area. thanks for taking me with you.
Another great vid, Steve. Much enjoyed! What a walk!
Cheers Jim! :)
Inspired to do a mini version of this with the kids during the summer break, can’t wait! 🏴
Aww well done to you both. Wish I had your energy, I'm bad enough going over in car definitely could not walk the bridge couldn't even stand to look over lol. But really enjoyed watching you two.thanks again for my day out, it's great to see all the places I know.😍
An absolute pleasure to take you on the walk with us Margaret! Believe me, I can't look over the railing at the bridge!
Aberdour, that’s awesome. On our first Scotland trip our family stayed there in a former stable on Christmas Eve and it snowed overnight. Magical. No snow where we live. Thx again for captivating content. Exciting. ☺️
Congratulations on reaching 15,000 Steve - and congrats to both for walking such a long distance! My goodness, I bet your legs suffered the next day. Lovely to see the bridges from different locations.
Thanks so much Sue! I had to drive to Aberdeen at the end of this day, certainly not good for the legs :)
Thanks again, guys, for taking me places I never would see otherwise and, as usual, putting me in a happy mood.
well done on 15k! love every second on your videos, keep up the good work!
Thanks so much mate!!! Really enjoying this adventure :)
Excellent! By far the best walking videos on the real Scotland and great to see parts I’ve cycled past but never explored on foot. Thanks to you both 🙏
Thanks so much Keith! Really appreciate it!
Great seeing the old bridges as I moved from fife to Sheffield a few years ago
I sit too much here in Stenhouse. Well, thanks fer giving me the motivation to get out and about!
Congratulations 👏 on the 15,000. Subscribers milestone.
Great video
Cheers Dave! Really appreciate it :)
Congratulations on 15k, hopefully there will be a few 000 added to that soon :)
Oh Andrew, that would be a dream, and then I could go full-time and bring much more content! But imagine the walk we'd have to do to celebrate it :)
Ahhh you guys, you just keep getting better and better! Great 22 mile hike, the most I’ve ever done in a day is 25 with huge hills so well done! Very enjoyable! Thanks!
That sounds like an excellent effort! Well done you!
Another great walking tour that I enjoyed very much!
I look forward to the next one. Thank you!
Thanks Lara :) Thinking hard about where to go next :)
Well done Steve on another great production, keep em coming please. You are correct, North Queensferry just a magic place, love em old buildings.
It really is eh?! I'd forgotten how cool it was, would love to live there!
Genuinely delightful Steve. Another lovely edition to your endeavours. What a slog though, 21 Miles. Wow - I bet you were utterly exhausted after that effort. Thanks for sharing these, the Scottish tourist board should give you an award or sponsor you or something. You really present Scotland in a beautiful light. Cracking stuff. Well done on fifteen thousand Subscribers. Cheers.
Cheers Ric! Thanks so much for the kind words! We both really appreciate it. And yes, we were EXHAUSTED after this one! I think we have found our daily limit :)
Hi Steve.I really enjoy your walks around Edinburgh. I get to see parts I normally wouldn't. A pleasant way to start my day here in Germany with my coffee. Please keep these interesting walks going.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks so much! Ohhh I miss wee trips to Germany - love it so much there every time!
that bridge is immence ! great to see aleica boppin along next to ya sharing the pain...cheers guys
What absolutely cracking video mr Steve me and kean went to North Queensferry last year to the Scottish seaside centre as we were watching this video just now the squeals of excitement from my boy were amazing as we too went up the smallest lightower as well he was so exited when he recognised the tower and the train station at Dalmeny thank you for inspiring my son to an our trip in August to your fair land as he has autism your videos get his mind working overtime watching your videos and trying to recognise places we have been in Edinburgh thank you both again for entertaining us and kean says you must have some cold drinks lol thanks again from joff and kean
That's so cool you've been there too! Love it! Not too long now until your next big adventure! :)
So very nice to accompany you two on your 20+ mile trek. There was so much beauty. One part was amusing when you were discussing the somewhat disheveled section. As you said the words, you were walking by a gorgeous shrub. :-) Loved the many greenways.
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much for coming along Bob! Oh we need to show more appreciation to those shrubs :)
I'm sitting here with a lump in my throat, what a beauty you are showing us, thank you🎉
Another great walk Steve......great scenery, as always, you guys really like to punish yourselves for sure! I do remember when I could do that, but not now....knees won't take it or the feet! You're blessed to live in an area that has so many beautiful places to visit close by. I'm sure that train ride felt wonderful on the way home....hope you enjoyed a nice supper after that!
Cheers Bob! It is such a nice reward to do these as one-way walks and have the reward of a wee train journey afterwards! We sure reached our limit on this day though :)
Only just found this video it was brilliant a great day out 👍thanks Steve
Glad you enjoyed it James!
It is Saturday morning here in Oz and I have just driven four hours to get home after a tedious week away working in the bush only to find your wonderful walk on my computer, man this lifted my spirits, what a wonderful journey and what beautiful views thank you so much it has made my day. Stay well both of you and thanks again. Ps- congratulations on reaching 15k I am sure it will not be long before you have double that figure.Cheers.
Wow, I'm just as thankful for this comment! Cheers Simon!
Many congratulations and good wishes on 15K subscribers! I am proud to be one of them!
Yas! Thanks so much Cindy :)
That's a terrific effort. Well done to you both! Always enjoy walking in Fife. I'm walking from Glasgow City Centre to Balloch Castle at Loch Lomond on Friday. Roughly 20 miles. Another enjoyable vlog. Keep up the good work!.
That sounds like a cracking route Mark - might need to steal that idea :) Aw the best with it!
Another good video pal. What helps us is your knowledge of the places you show us.
Cheers Alex, appreciate it! :)
Another great video showing so many hidden gems! That was some hike for you both, and well done with all the subscribers - as a previous comment said....Well Deserved 😎
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it :)
Just recently found your channel.. I was born in Newbridge midlothian but now living in Dublin. You brought back great memories talking about the Forth Road Bridge. Like your mum and dad I remember queuing for hours to get across on the first day. The queue went as far back as Kirkliston. My dad was also driving his Ford Zephyr. Really enjoying your channel.
That's so cool Alan! Cheers for getting in touch :)
Hi Steve another great video of your walk around Scotland I’m still looking forwards to see more of your videos thank you for sharing
Thanks so much Ken, more to come soon I hope :)
Gosh ! What a wonderful walk !!! Greetings from Hamburg to you both !
Thanks so much Gabi! All the best to you too! :)
Are you telling me that after a 21.49 mile walk, you didn't even stop for a pie and a pint? You're a madman!
Congratulations on the subscribers. Well deserved 👍
Haha cheers guys! You know what, we weren't even hungry - it was weird, maybe too tired (and as soon as we got back to Edinburgh I had a 2 1/2hr drive to Aberdeen!) I slept well that night :)
Nice one you both on the 20 mile or so walk so many hidden gems in our livley country well done again
Thanks so much Roberto!
Watching your videos gives me a chance to see places I’d never see otherwise, buildings, towns and countryside. Scotland has always fascinated me and now I’m seeing it. Thank you.
Glad to show you round Doris :)
Well that was a grand walk you did I was worn out 👀 watching thanks for sharing 👍 xx
Superb walking video yet again. Your walking trips have inspired me to walk more also. I watched your video on walking between Edinburgh and Glasgow via the canal and have set off to do the same (in wee bites)) from Bowling in the west through to Edinburgh. Today completed Linlithgow to Broxburn alll thanks to your video idea thanks.
Great job Alister! I'm really enjoying the oneway trips with the fun of a wee train journey back :)
I really enjoyed your walking on the west coast of Scotland brilliant 👏
Lovely area. I added Fife to my Train Simulator. Another great Steve, thanks.
Nice one Jack! Thanks :)
Thank you for the walk. It’s beautiful country.
Cheers Liz! :)
More memories for me, Thank you
Brings back good memories, I lived in Grangemouth, just up river, back in 1950s, moved to Devon but returned to that area now and again to work in Rosyth Naval Dockyard....
Phew, what a walk! Well done and thanks for sharing. So interesting and lovely views 🥰
Cheers Lynn! We need to do more like this, such an easy 'idea' even if not so easy on the legs :D
Cheers to you, matey! :D Thanks for this fun adventure too! Keep going! Captain of the good old Blackthorne
Thanks Captain! Good times :) Hope you're doing well!
Another great video Steve. Keep them coming. All the very best from Thailand.
Thanks so much Kenneth! :)
Again areas i know but great to see the hidden gems i havent come across in the car and from the road well done again great vid
Cheers Davy! A lot of new places for us every time too :)
excellent stuff Steve, thanks to both. Cheers from Cornwall.
Glad you enjoyed it Paul! Thanks!
You made me laugh @ 1:56 ! Congratulations on (more than) 15K subscribers, I look forward to the video that you will make when you reach 100K. Great video, beautiful scenery.
Thanks so much Philip! Full-time work is getting in the way of more videos at the moment, but hope to film another video this week :)
What a great walk and day out thanks for taking us all with you
Cheers Jim! :)
I enjoying virtual walking tours. Greetings from Australia.
Brilliant, thank you so much I enjoyed every foot step😁
Thanks so much Rob!
Great walk Steve that takes a big heart for the two of you to stick with it. My first time over the Forth Bridge would have been Dec. 1964 my father was a haulier and would take fish down to Joe Appleby in North Shields. The following year while at Broomlee School camp in West Linton we had a day out walking over the bridge to North Queensferry.
Wow the year it was built, it would have been all shiny and new! Love it :) Thanks Dennis
Congrats on the subs mate, you two are obviously full of energy or just aff yer heids min 🤣, wish I could walk that far, nice vlog again showing things I haven't seen down that way 😁
Cheers Marty! Oh, we really felt it after that walk - I think we've found our limit!
Enjoyed seeing that, especially St. Bridgid's Kirk, spectacular ruin.
Thanks Catherine! I've always loved it there :)
Gosh...from 15k subs to 83k in 2 yrs, amazing. Great vid, I watched the Fife Coast path before this one! Still trawling the back catalogue 😉
Hi Steve another great walk, enjoyed it very much, & very interesting, see you on the next one.
Glad you enjoyed it John!
Inspirational! 🙏
Cheers Stuart!
what a video what a walk Aberdour golf club Ford Zephyr Bridges amazing. Used to have day trips to Aberdour and loved it a long time ago. well done
Glad you enjoyed it Jim! Aberdour could have a video all of its own for sure!
So cool that you can actually walk across that bridge now! Congrats on the 15K subscribers!
Thanks so much! And cheers for coming over the bridge with us! :)
Well done!
Great walk, lovely to be brought along on it!
100% am going to have to head to North Queensferry, if only to check out the tiny light tower!
Please do Tom - it's a wonderful wee place :)
Another great video guys thanks. It reminds my of when I had a job to replace the costal path sign posts all along the path from North Queensferry to Buckhaven
Good work! Thanks for keeping us on the right track :)
Aw getting close to my turf now! 😁 This makes me supppper nostalgic, i used to cycle from Sputh Queensferry to Glenogle daily on that cycle path and loved every bit of it! At 5am when noone but the farmers are awake, it was beautiful and peaceful 🥺😁 Lived right next to the new high school, the very start of the cycle path, and it was perfect in the summer 🥰
Amazing video Steve, i miss doing things like this, definitely motivated after watching this, and i'll be sure to pack ma wotsits and dreamies incase am hungry! 😉😅
Haha we always carry dreams in case we make some friends along the way :D What a cool commute that would have been, you would have been getting funny looks from the sheep :)
15.7 Subscribers - hardly surprising with high quality, entertaining videos like this - as always enjoyable with good content delivered in a friendly style. I am sure more milestones in watchers will continue !
Thanks so much John! But imagine the walks we're going to have to do to celebrate :D
Epic stuff guys when you said 15miles from edin to Aberdour I said aye right well done though enjoyed seeing my back yard
Haha David, shows how much planning and knowledge we really have eh!?
The bridges look spectacular in any weather.
So true!
That was one heck of a walk Steve and Alicia,there was an awful lot to like on that walk.Bet you were feeling it by the end, but both did it with good humour and little complaint.Look forward to your next video mate.Only 4 weeks till I come up to Fort William,so looking forward to it.Take care both,see you soon.
Awesome Bob! Have a fantastic time, we really need to get up that way soon as well! :) We were so tired by the end, we barely had the energy to finish the video :D
Superb walk Steve; the late spring country-side is the best. A future trek around the coast of Fife would be binge worthy. My arthritic knees are jealous.
Cheers Peter! We are really excited to do the whole trail as soon as we can get time off together :)
Well done - both for the hike and the subscribers. Today 15.7K - a year from now 1.57 million!
Imagine that walk Jim? :) Hope you're doing well!
Thanks for a really enjoyable video. My wife and I love the Fife area and have walked part of the Fife Coastal Path between Lower Largo and Crail. We would love to see your treatment of this which would certainly be a good watch. You might even fancy doing the chain walk near Elie! Having completed the 15 mile target on this video though I think that I would have headed for Inverkeithing station instead of continuing to Aberdour!
That would have been a good idea Bob - we certainly reached our limit! We did a wee video on the chain walk too - what a great place, and the coastline just gets better as you head east - we really must do the whole thing when we have some time off together :)
Love the video,makes me homesick. 👍
Cheers John! Glad to bring a wee bit of Scotland to you :) Aw the best!
@@steve-marsh Thanks Steve. The last time I was back in Fife I walked Fife Coastal Path: Elie to Anstruther, around 10km.
Great stuff Steve and those miles are very good going, weirdly enough I was watching a show a few weeks back all about the Forth bridges, was really good but sadly was saying about some men that lost their lives building it.
Been to South Queensferry a few times but never North, those stairs you went up reminded me of the Wallace Monument, bit touristy but still worth a visit if you've not already done it.
Thanks again fella enjoyed as always.
Thanks so much Gary! Hope you're doing well :) Wallace Monument is a great shout - and what a setting it has - definitely thinking to do some short 5 minute videos on this kind of attraction
@@steve-marsh Kelpies is good too fella and Falkirk Wheel 👍
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When I was doing the Scotish tours in the 1980's I we always went into the Albert in North Queensferry for tea and sandwiches. It used to be a dangerous road down to there from the motorway. Cangratulations on your 15k Subscribers. But what a way to celebrate it!
Cheers! I have memories of the Albert from when I was a kid :)
@@steve-marsh HAppy Christmas to you & Alicja and an adventuras new year. 🎇✨🎄🚐🚐🚐
You old weather guru you. Another cracking day in Scotland I see. Great walk over the bridge, North Queensferry is a nice wee place. I do love a train journey as well as a walk or cycle so this one was a good one. Fancy a pie from Gregg's though......wonder why???
Haha cheers Michael - oh not a pie, just a breakfast roll :)
My wife told me about this video a couple of months ago but I didn't watch it until now. Having lived in South Queensferry I thought I knew it all! But the views you provided were, for the most part, a totally new perspective! I couldn't have made that walk even during my thirties, so thanks for providing this vicarious adventure.
Thanks so much for coming along (at last!) ;)
A great walk on a superb day. Nicely filmed and produced. Well done..!! ;-)
Thanks so much John! Really appreciate it, especially as very novice film-makers when people understand the work that goes into these videos :)
That was epic Steve and thanks for putting the cat amongst the pigeons for our visit to the two islands this Sunday. We may have to rejig our plans and take in North Queensferry too as it looks a gorgeous place 👍
Cheers Davey! I'd forgotten how cool N Queensferry was, I'd like to live there now!
@@steve-marsh had a fantastic day today Steve. Thanks for the tips. Cramond Island was wonderful. I wish we could have spent more time there. Unfortunately we didn't have time to check out North Queensferry as our boat over to Inchcolm was at 1pm. Inchcolm was lovely too although we couldn't explore either end as the nesting gulls kept dive bombing us. My wife is scared of "flappy things" and I'm a wimp! 😅 All in all we had a wonderful time though 👍
@@DaveyPalmer1 Haha sorry I should have told the birds to be more welcoming :) So glad you had a good time, and great to know you have plenty reasons to return :)
That's a long old walk - well done, really enjoyed that.. keep up the good work!
Cheers Bruce! Really felt that one in the legs :)
Fantastic video Steve, really enjoyed the tour... be careful though.... I think your Glamour's assistant might be taking all the lime light..... :-))))
Ha it's all in the plan I'm sure! :)
@@steve-marsh Beware the Enemy within.... :-)))))
Amazing, I did not see any trash / litter in this whole video. Along the coast, no junk, cans, bottles on the shoreline. Fantastic video! Glad to know there is a country in the world that takes pride in their cities.
Glad you enjoyed it Frank
Thanks for a great video and particularly the Fife part. It brought back many happy memories of more than 50 years ago when that part of the Fife trail was just a walk over the Ferry Hills. There was an old army camp (I think near that beach you admired) where me and my pals used to have great fun playing "sojers". The shipwrecking yard at Inverkeithing broke up many famous ships in its day. Whenever we passed in the train from Cowdenbeath to Edinburgh there was usually an old liner there. My grandad lived in a small house on the Aberdour Road just up the laneway from St Bridget's and we'd walk down there a lot. Also trespassed on what was then (probably still is) part of the Earl of Moray's estate, going past what was left of the "big hoose" at Donibristle Estate and where James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray was killed on the beach. Alas, it's a long way from Australia and age is beginning to tell so I'm not sure if I'll ever get back there for another visit. Your videos are a great substitute. Many thanks.
Thanks so much or this! Really appreciate the comment. I have many similar memories from Donibristle especially (and went to the namesake primary school). We hope to do the whole Fife Coastal Path at some point this year when the weather improves - stay tuned for that one :)
@@steve-marsh I look forward to it. Much Regards. :-)