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John_Findlay

John_Findlay

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Being an information junkie I'm pretty much addicted to this programme on the BBC and watch it on iPlayer now. Anyone else?

This one was of particular interest as it kinda covered my own stretch of coastline all the way up from Berwick Upon Tweed (maybe the next golf at Goswick should include the Russians?) through Edinburgh (and my area of Leith) over the Forth Road Bridge (falling down) through St Andrews and beyond to Aberdeen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007rx02/Coast_Series_3_BerwickuponTweed_to_Aberdeen/

Just amazing historical information (underwater coal mining 300/400 years ago!) everytime.
 
I saw this a good while ago, I liked the wartime ploy to get seagulls to spot German u-boats by covering a model submarine with sardines thereby 'training' the seagulls. I know it didn't work but the 'outside the box' thinking has to be admired!
 
Coast is a class programme. Loved the Arbroath Smokie section last night. Being a golf fan though I felt they could have spent more time on the old course or maybe the senior ladies putting club on the himalayas :)
 
Coast is a class programme. Loved the Arbroath Smokie section last night. Being a golf fan though I felt they could have spent more time on the old course or maybe the senior ladies putting club on the himalayas :)
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We go walks on Auchmithie beach regularly and every time I pass the pit they smoked the haddock in I think of tyhe program.
I,too was suprised that they didn't dwell on the golf.
 
A_F ! You're alive, man. Hellooooo.

I think they've probably been round the coast a few times over by now. That episode was from 2007 so I'm guessing they covered the golf at St Andrews in some other series.

Makes you want to buy a boat, though. All the best views are from the sea.
 
Makes you want to buy a boat, though. All the best views are from the sea.
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Cue hapless'!

There was a run of this type of programme a short while ago; Wainwright's Walks, one that did a lot of aerial views (with that gardening chappie), another that followed the old maps. Coast was one of the best though.
 
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