David on the Meadows: your visit

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While you are here

• Screaming swifts (Early May to early August). Summer evenings bring swifts hunting over the treetops. Edinburgh is an official Swift City and the tenements around the Meadows are their nesting grounds.
• The long light (June and July). Around midsummer it barely gets dark. Golden evenings on the grass until after ten.
• Junior parkrun. A free timed 2K for ages 4 to 14, every Sunday at 9:30am from Melville Drive.
• BBQ slabs. One of the few places in Edinburgh with designated barbecue sites, marked on maps at the entrances.

The five must-sees

1. Walk Middle Meadow Walk. The Meadows’ grand tree-lined spine, open since 1743. Start at Quartermile, stroll to Melville Drive.
2. Hot chocolate at Uplands Roast. The coffee trailer that finishes your hot chocolate with a blowtorch. Join the queue, it moves.
3. The 1886 corner. The unicorn-topped Masons’ Pillars and the Prince Albert Victor Sundial, both built to show off for the great Exhibition on the West Meadows.
4. Jawbone Walk. Named for the whale-jaw arch that stood here for 127 years. The story is the sight.
5. Bruntsfield Links next door. Play the free Short Hole golf course, on ground where golf has been played for centuries. Golfhall, the world’s first clubhouse, stood here in 1717.

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