City Walks - Aberdeen Scotland Walking Tour - Virtual walk and Walking Treadmill Video
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2019
- City Walks - Aberdeen Scotland Walking Tour - Virtual walk and Walking Treadmill Video explores the granite city.
Aberdeen is known as the Granite City which implies a bleak and grey city. We found it to be absolutely beautiful with lots of great museums, hotels, restaurants, and leafy parks. This walking treadmill video is the first of two around this port city, known for its wealth due to the oil industry. The second treadmill walk will be along the aberdeen harbor. The north sea oil fields have been crucial to the modern development of Aberdeen and it's why many of the museums have free entry.
If you want a guided tours of scotland, there are many companies that do that but this is a free walking tour of this lovely city and a great starter if you want to visit Aberdeen. Aberdeen is the city, Aberdeenshire is the large county.
I hope you enjoy this walk. We had a great time in the city and it would be a wonderful place to launch a tour of Scotland.
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From Wikipedia:
Aberdeen is a city in northeast Scotland. It is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 39th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and 228,800 for the local council area.
During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, which can sparkle like silver because of its high mica content. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, Aberdeen has been known as the off-shore oil capital of Europe. The area around Aberdeen has been settled for at least 8,000 years, when prehistoric villages lay around the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don. The city has a long, sandy coastline and a marine climate, the latter resulting in chilly summers and mild winters.
Aberdeen received Royal burgh status from David I of Scotland (1124-1153), transforming the city economically. The city's two universities, the University of Aberdeen, founded in 1495, and Robert Gordon University, which was awarded university status in 1992, make Aberdeen the educational centre of the north-east of Scotland. The traditional industries of fishing, paper-making, shipbuilding, and textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen's seaport. Aberdeen Heliport is one of the busiest commercial heliports in the world and the seaport is the largest in the north-east of Scotland.
Aberdeen hosts the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, a major international event which attracts up to 1000 of the most talented young performing arts companies. In 2015, Mercer named Aberdeen the 57th most liveable city in the world, as well as the fourth most liveable city in Britain. In 2012, HSBC named Aberdeen as a leading business hub and one of eight 'super cities' spearheading the UK's economy, marking it as the only city in Scotland to receive this accolade. In 2018, Aberdeen was found to be the best city in the UK to start a business in a study released by card payment firm Paymentsense.
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everything is grey, I like it
Yes, I think it’s because of all the gray stone they used to build things with. Luckily we had a beautiful day with lots of green trees and colorful scenery. Thanks for the comment and for watching. - Henry
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My home town, thanks. I have lived in Thailand for 25 years and really enjoyed your walk!
Thanks. We really enjoyed our day there. - Henry
I came to your city in next month can
I get your contact
I schooled, worked, and lived in Aberdeen for 10 years, this video made me feel so nostalgic and made me really miss those days.. a fab vid!
Thanks so much and I’m so glad it brought back memories for you. All the best. - H
This is where I’m moving to in July so really loving watching this video 😀
Very cool. Glad you like them. Best of luck with your move. -H
Good clip but there's a lot more to see nearly 300 Castles in Aberdeenshire
Said. FIT LIKE YOU. TO ABERDEEN COLLEGE OF COMMERCE. ..AND UNION STREET...
Many thanks for posting this. I lived in the N E of Scotland. Happy memories and very familiar sights and sounds. Miss the Gallowgate.
So glad you enjoyed the vid. Scotland is certainly a beautiful place. We stayed in Cullen for a month and had a wonderful time. Thanks for the comment -Henry
Ian Scutt oh me too
Just love all the grey stone.
It's been really good walking around Scotland with you. Liked 👍
Thanks so much for your comments and support. -H
Great walk, I especially loved seeing the ironwork in the train station. Can't wait to see the port!
Yeah, I really like that too. Thaks for the comment. -H
I am Aberdeen born but live 26 miles to the south.I worked in Aberdeen from 1997 to 2020 so I know Aberdeen well.
Hi Robert, We really enjoyed our day there and would to go back some day for a proper visit. There's more to see and do, I'm sure. -H
Wow it’s very very awesome city, what an amazing builds ❤️❤️
The detail of the stone work is amazing. I imagine it's a bit bleak in the winter, but in the summer it's wonderful. -H
City Walks even in winter i think it’s beautiful in bleak, amazing architecture ❤️
Oh- I enjoyed this very much! I’m acctually going to Scotland later this summer, looking forward to it even more with your Scottish Walks!
Thanks so much. Hope you have a great trip and film some wonderful walks. -H
I' v been in Aberdeen.l loved the city.Thanks for the video.You made me remember my days l spent theare.Thanks to its people who smiled at me and helped me everywhere.God bless everyone!
The cityscape is good. Blue sky is soft.
Yes, it was a very nice day to walk. Thanks for your support and the comment. -Henry
Thank you so much, it's very helpful!
Hi Christine, glad to hear it. It’s a beautiful city to visit. -H
Make more videos like this sir Loved it.
Thank you very much. We’d love to get back over there as soon as we can. - H
I miss living there
Must have been a cool place to live. We had a wonderful day there. -H
Love the granite buildings.
They really are pretty impressive. -Henry
Thanks for bringing us to a place we've never been before
Amazing such a Beautiful city Enjoy your Week Ahead
You are welcome. Thanks for the comment. Enjoy your week as well. -H
Looked awesome 👍😎 It's great when museums and other sights are free so people can/will visit them more.. Of course if they are fully packed, then I understand entry fees too. 🙂
We were lucky enough to go during the school day so the museums we went to were not crowded. Thanks for watching - Henry
good walk and talk video
Thanks so much -H
Thanks for taking us to Aberdeen!
You bet. All the best @goldie Bear! -Henry
Very nice view in the city and kind explanation about this city in the description, thanks for sharing your video
So glad you enjoyed it and thanks for continuing to watch and comment. Much appreciated. -Henry
Thank You for sharing.Beautiful city.
Thank you too -Henry
Thanks for showing!
Happy to oblige! Cheers -H
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to walk with you. I’m originally from Aberdeen and have not been home in many years. The language you heard is not Gaelic but the local dialect, DORIC.
You did a wonderful job filming.
@@engineerredstone7431 Very cool info. Thanks for sharing. I"d never heard of that before. Love this type of local knowledge. Thanks for sharing and commenting -Henry
oh how I miss the sound of the seagulls !!!
Hi such a great town isn’t it. -H
You do such a great job with the information you provide! Keep up the great job with these videos, loved this walk, so many cool buildings. The colours of that 'love at first sight' structure really popped against all the surround grey!
Watched Walker Thanks so much for the kind comments. So glad you enjoyed it. Love your channel, as always. Cheers - Henry
very informative, thanks for this!!
KidWanderer07 Thanks so much for watching appreciate it I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Is a beautiful city. - Henry
Great Work my Friend! Always here to support you! I wish you a nice weekend!
Thanks so much. I appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed it and commented. -Henry
Looks like a quiet town.
thanks. -h
As always you make amazing video! 😊
Especially I like classic architecture (that was university before) and modern buildings wich situated very close 😊
And another architecture, and museum... So beautiful, that can't stop watching 😊
Very beautiful 😊
Thank you, Henry! 😊
-GoodWalkers
Thanks for your kind words and for watching. Glad you enjoyed it. -Henry
@@CityWalks I always enjoy watching your videos 😊
Thank for the tour.
i have a freind from aberdeen.
i hope i go there someday..
You should! It's a very cool city. -H
Spent years there along with Montrose and Dundee and enjoyed it
offshore4848 I was really surprised at how vibrant bright it was. I guess I should have suspected this given all the oil morning. It really is a financial center with so much going on and such a beautiful place. I’d like to get back to spend more time there and to see the beach for which it is so famous. Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment. -Henry
Cheers mate! Thanks for the walking tour! It was a pleasant experience!
Thanks! Glad you you liked it. -H
Well done. I will visit Aberdeen in mid-2020---very helpful.
M Wdca thanks so much. Hope you have a good trip. There’s more to see that I didn’t get to like a beach and other things. -Henry
Thanks for remembering my wonderful days in Aberdeen :)
Our pleasure! Such a great city. I'd love to go back. -H
Granite City for real. Oh it's so beautiful. I love granite. Great video there
Thanks 👍 -H
Best city in Scotland
It's up there. So many great cities and towns in the country. One of our favorite places -H
Thank you very much for an interesting tour.
Glad you enjoyed it. It's a pretty cool city. -H
These are very good.
So glad you enjoyed them. Thanks so much for the kind words. - Henry
Awesome, this city is sound good. its very nice city.
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Those women in the train station were speaking Doric, not Gaelic. Doric is a traditional, local language to the North East of Scotland... still used to this very day. Nice video of my home town.
Thanks for the info! I had never heard of that language. Love comments like this. Thanks -H
Doric is more of a dialect than its own language - most words are a corruption of the English equivalent.
Doric is often spoken by “fowk frae” the countryside - whereas, maist fowk bidin (“living”) in Aberdeen “dinna spik” proper Doric, rather they spik the “toonser” variant - with “toon” meaning “town”.
The “al wifies” (the ladies) in your video seemed to be talking in Doric about the “waye oot” i.e they were looking for the “way out” of the train station.
There are some words in Doric that are unique to Doric but “maist” words are “nae” original and are just a different “waye o” pronouncing the proper English version of the word.
It’s a great “waye o spikin, if you ken fit fowk are haverin’ on aboot.”
@@treehugger2044 Doric is a dialect of Scots - which is a language. A sister language of English, but still its own language ... in the same way that Swedish and Norwegian are very similar but still different languages.
Best video I've seen of my home town. Unfortunately you missed a turn. About 40mins you were walking down Union Terrace and turned right at the traffic lights. If you had turned left you would have come across (inter alia) St Nicholas Kirk (Church), Aberdeen's Mither Kirk where all the pomp and circumstance is carried out. It also has a carillon of 48 bells weighing 4.6 tonnes which is played at least once per day. From there you could have walked down Market Street, turned right into Guild Street where you would have seen the best row of granite buildings in Aberdeen. This would have led you to the railway Station. There is Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic is pronounced Gaalic. No criticism intended.
What a beautiful cool calm city,never been there,but i want to go there now after watching this..
I'd love to go back and spend more time. -H
I ws looking for just this. Thanks so much! I am planning to come to Uni. of Aberdeen this September.
Cheers!
Awesome. Have a great year ahead. -H
Can i have ur email address?
Great video ! I'm from Hong Kong considering Aberdeen U, this gave me a quick look of the city
Glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful. Thanks for the comment -H
Nice city movie. Well watched 555
Thanks so much for the comment. Yes, it's a very interesting city. We do love Scotland. -Henry
olá !! adorei o vídeo !! sou do Brasil e meu filho e família se mudaram para Aberdeen em 2020 e foi maravilhoso conhecer a cidade !! obrigada !!
So glad you got to see it. I hope you get to visit your son soon. -H
Thanks a lot! planning to move to Scotland, Aberdeen seems to be a nice choice, your video opens my eyes 😍
Happy to hear that! -H
I was there a month before then, you lucked out on such great weather!
Yes it was! We had a great time. Glad you got to see it too. -H
Thank you for a great film of Aberdeen. I was born in Aberdeen I miss my home town I left Aberdeen because of my job .
Thanks Scott. I was really impressed by the city. I'd go back anytime and do some more exploring. I hope you get a chance to return someday soon. -Henry
@@CityWalks thank Henry for your kindness . I left Aberdeen in 2005 . that mean s a lot to see my home City again . even I can't be their look at your film can take me back to my child hood thank you
@@CityWalks Dear Henry can you go back one day . and do a another film of Aberdeen. I will look out for your film. I wish you well Scott
Very clean city
Parts, yes. Other parts, not so much, but that's the nature of cities. Aberdeen is beautiful regardless. Thanks, -Henry
My Scottish ancestors are from here! Dating back to as far as the 13th century!
It’s a beautiful city. I can only imagine it back then. -H
Super A great video was great👍❤❤❤❤👍Thank you for this.
You bet. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment too! -Henry
Great video apart from a few wrong turns down side streets. I lived in Aberdeen 2008-2015. I enjoyed it: friendly people and great parks. But it's an overpriced place to live as far as housing costs are concerned. Thanks for the video. It was nice to revisit the place.
Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, part of the price of exploring is making a few mistakes. Thanks for the comment and sharing your personal experience. -H
Thank you for posting this, I will be there in April. Can you recommend some local cuisine?
Fantastic! Have a great trip. We don't eat out a lot when we travel but I'd definitely recommend some sticky toffy pudding if you get the chance. And possibly Cullen Skink which is a sort of smoky fish bisque
-Henry
Haggis neeps n tatties loon
Thanks for your video I'm from Aberdeen but left in the 70s Aberdeen sits between the river Dee and the river Don. Used to be a beautiful city some of it still is... Your pronunciation of some places is quite amusing but at least you are trying 😊
Hah. Yes, my pronunciations are way off some times. It was a mess in Estonia. Thanks for watching. -H
It was really nice felt like in watching GTA hahaha thanks for the video bro
No problem 👍 Thanks for watching. -H
Hi, great video of my home city. Can i ask what camera you used to film this footage, you have inspired me to do a similar video but with more of the well known places in Aberdeen.
Sure, for this one I used the DJI Osmo Pocket with an external mic. I'd love to watch your vid when it's complete. -H
Can't thank you enough!!!!
Wow. Thanks so much. I’m so glad you liked this. All the best. -H
A good video of my home city but one correction, Aberdeen has only one University not two, we have the University of Aberdeen with two Colleges name Marischal College and Kings College.
Right. Thanks for the clarification. I'd love to go back and spend more than a half day there. -H
2 there is RGU
Sorry Walter but Aberdeen has 2 universities - Aberdeen University and Robert Gordons University (used to be College). Marischal is no longer a college but now houses Aberdeen City Council and Kings is part of Aberdeen University
@@01thistledoo Correct, there two Universities in Aberdeen, Aberdeen University (as old as Cambridge) and Robert Gordon University (used to be RGIT) I graduated from Scott Sutherland School of Architecture @RGU.
Aberdeen is a fine city. Missed it.
Many thanks for posting. Really appreciated... However, Union Terrace still closed!..
Bummer. Glad you enjoyed it though. Thanks for the comment. -H
My thoughts exactly. Our wise and benificient rulers also have chopped down most of the trees, so I'm pessimistic about it improving when it opens.
very few walking vlogs speaks or have audio. This makes video more informational. Anyways, it's nice either way. Keep it up.
Thank you, I will. Great comment -H
Nice walk and thanks for the information in the beginning. Looks like a relaxed city. Interesting how the granite or dominant stones color and shape the city architecture more greyinsg. Long days in the summer I suppose. Thanks for the upload!
Great point. That is interesting and it really does. Thanks for the great comment. Cheers -Henry
Let’s go this my home
Thanks! -Henry
Wow. Fantastic town. To be honest I didn't expected
Yeah, neither did I. But we had nice weather and it really is a beautiful place. Thanks - Henry
I miss Abdn
Very interesting town. -H
It makes me recall my school days about 32 years ago at Aberdeen University.
There is one shop name call “JUST IN CASE”. This shop is only selling CASE, nothing else. I wonder it is still there or not.
Love hearing these personal connections. Thanks and glad you enjoyed it. -H
To think this was only 3 years ago. It’s changed so much after the Covid Pandemic, in some ways it was better even only 3 years ago.
Interesting. Tell us how it's changed. I know the lockdowns were pretty stringent over there. -H
@@CityWalks The Market on the side of Market St has been demolished, a new one is currently being built however. Most of Union St has been closed to vehicles except buses, taxis and bicycles. Lots of other streets have been closed to cars, navigating the city by car is an absolute nightmare with lots of congestion. Parking your car when you eventually find somewhere to park is rather expensive now. First Aberdeen ( Local Bus provider ) has gotten rid of some of the less busy bus routes, the buses are not always the most reliable. Private business especially on Union St have disappeared.
On a more positive note however, there is a mega scale proposal to revitalise the whole beachfront. There is also a new football stadium in the works. The P & J Live ( massive event centre ) has completed being built and is a great event complex. A big new chunk of the harbour is under construction which will be able to accommodate the worlds largest cruise ships and other mammoth sized ships with a new terminal also going along with it. The city is also becoming Scotlands most environmentally friendly cities with most of its electricity being produced by the off shore wind farm and other hydro electric plants nearby.
Still, such a brilliant and unique city to visit and would tell anyone to go to go visit who asked. It’s such a great city to live in. We would welcome you back anytime.
You should have taken the bus to old Aberdeen area 20 minutes out of town centre ,it’s worth a look very old buildings there ,old jimmy Australia
I wish I'd known! (And had time). We would have liked to have seen the beach as well. Guess we'll have to go back. -H
I agree, some nice parks too, harbour area also.
Where do you recommend getting a good meal of fish and chips in Aberdeen?
Maybe someone else can chime in on this?
The museums in aberdeen are not free because of oil money coming in - basically all museums and art galleries are free in scotland
Thanks for that clarification. -H
Yes, that's right, also free in much of UK.
Amazing city! I think Aberdeen don't know what social inequality is, because you don't really see much difference between neighborhoods ☺️
Interesting thought. -H
im sorry to say thats not true for all of it
You get filter coffee everywhere in the UK 😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe at Costa and Starbucks but most other places seem to only offer Americanos.
is your mood as grey as everything else
Nope. I'm happy. -H
You missed a chance to walk down by the beach and possibly catch a baseball game or practice going on!
Yes, we did. Unfortunately we only had the day and we were doing other things as well. It was a family trip that I carve some time out to walk. Thanks for the comment and the suggestion for our next visit. - Henry
I know Aberdeen as the hometown of Kurt Cobain. :)
Hah. I'll have to do another walk there. We fly back through Seattle so maybe we can side trip on the way home. -H
You walk like the Minah Bird from the Warner Bros animated cartoons.
Have a nice day. -H
They don't have a litter problem . V
Didn't see much. Most comments about Aberdeen are very positive or very negative. We had a great time ourselves and I'd go back for another visit. -Henry
I'm an Aberdonian. We have a litter problem.
@@interdave999 It's not visible in this clip . V
@@plasticbucket Chewing gum, cigarette butts not easily seen but a big problem. Also varies depending where you are in the city. I don't think we're any better or worse than cities of similar size.
@@interdave999 Correct . B
Please fix the audio...can hardly hear you and I had to finally give up listening.
Interesting. It's a bit quiet when I listen to it but when I turn up the volume it seems fine. Do you use headphones? Are you watching on a TV or another device? Not much I can do about this one but I'll try to be more careful in the future. -H
Can you hear me Becky I'm Tanmoy
Hmmm-kay. -H
Thank you for yor efforts on behalf of Aberdeen. I have to say that the first 36 minutes of this video are about as depressing as I've ever seen. You certainly picked some streets which if viewed by a potential visitor to Aberdeen, would definitely dissuade them from ever visiting. I kept wanting to shout at the video, "For God's sake, don't go that way!" (I actually used another word insted of "God," which RUclips would disallow. As a native Aberdonian, and a frequent returnee, I am dismayed by what has become of this once great city. Union Street was almost deserted on my last return (July, 2022), and this on a Saturday. George Street is a ghost of its former self. John Lewis is gone. Debenham's is gone. The Market is gone. There are many much nicer parts of Aberdeen, but I suppose that with a one hour walking tour, you're pretty much stuck in center city. I do wish that you had gone down in to Union Terrace Gardens, as you walked right by the entrances. BTW, it's "MER-cat" Cross, not "mer-CAT" Cross, and the wifies in the train station were speaking Doric, not Gaelic. But thank you for trying!
Hi Michael, yes, I was definitely less informed than I should have been. Thanks for all the local info, especially about the language. I wish I'd known of the better areas at the time. I really enjoyed the parts I saw and I would definitely go back and explore more, especially the beach that is supposed to be so nice. Thanks so much for the detailed comment. Take care, -H
We discovered your video today and enjoyed the walk, except that you BOUNCE while walking. After a while the bouncing up and down made me nauseous. Please invest in a stabilizer for your camera. I can't watch walking tour videos with the bouncing motion.
Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps I'll put up a patreon link so people can help me pay for that investment. -H
i have an aversion to corporate scum like starbucks, so i'll find a diff vid, so therefore i won't assist in the ways invited; in future you can appeal to me by avoiding filming corporate tax dodging goons!!! cheers.
Ok. Thanks. Can’t please everyone but I do hear your criticism. Have a great day❤️. -H