Itโs been the earliest harvest in Scotland for 25 years. Not surprising, considering itโs been the driest summer for 150 years and temperatures have reached record highs. Our farmers have moved on and begun...
Next month's Women's Tour of Scotland cycling event has the backing of ultra-endurance athlete Mark Beaumont and he says it could spark a major uptake in female cycling across the country.
The three-day, inaugural Tour...
The Edinburgh Napier Sport Science academic who helped prepare adventurer Mark Beaumont for his cycle around the world is getting ready to undertake her own mammoth cycling challenge.
In the lead up to the challenge...
Mark Beaumont, who went round the world in a record breaking 79 days on two wheels, was confirmed last month as the face of the capitalโs Your Bike scheme.
The ultra-endurance cyclist and Edinburgh resident...
The New Year came in with a bang and a large moon. The bang came from Edinburghโs famous Hogmanay fireworks and the moon was a Super Moon, 14 per cent bigger than normal and...
The Christmas merry-go-rounds in Edinburgh this year include โThe Dropโ, an 80m high tower on George Street. Mad merry-makers are spun up to the top of the tower and then โdroppedโ to the ground...
As a cyclist myself, I can only stand on my pedals in awe at Mark Beaumontโs achievement of cycling round the world in 79 days. He came freewheeling under the Arc de Triomphe in...
He stands tall in his own park in his home town of Dunfermline. Andrew Carnegie is the embodiment of his own book published in 1889 โThe Gospel of Wealth.โ Heโs the example of the...
Iโve spend much of this week wandering lonely as a cloud over the fields and hedgerows of England. On family visits in Norfolk and Hertfordshire I saw ten thousand daffodils, weeping willows just come...
Tiso celebrates 50 'bootiful' years and launch Spirit of Adventure lecture event series with globe-trotting cyclist / rower Mark Beaumont and Polly Murray, the first Scottish woman to summit Everest.
If all the footwear that...
Night of Adventure โ Edinburgh will take place at Vue Cinema, Omni Centre, Greenside, Edinburgh on Monday 13 June 2011. Come along and listen to superb speakers from across the spectrum of...
by Thomas Haywood
There was much anticipation at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival on Sunday night as Mark Beaumont, the Round the World Cyclist and broadcaster, gave the keynote talk about cycling down the Americas...