The 3rd in the Walking in Pairs series with Kristina Rothstein in Canada and Tamsin Grainger in Scotland.

For our second walk together-apart, Kristina Rothstein and I walked in Tokyo, Japan and Edinburgh, Scotland respectively. 2nd October 2025. The agreed location was the city, and coordinated stops were scheduled for the beginning, middle and end. Tokyo Leith, Edinburgh Kristina's walk The walk started at 7pm Tokyo time, on the last night of my three and half week trip to Japan.

This original stitched map (November 2025) shows the route of the Granton Burn, rising at the top of Corstorphine Hill not far from the Scott Tower, and flowing down to Royston / Granton / 'The Brick' Beach and into the Firth of Forth. Imagine you are buried in the ground up to your armpits! This is no bird's eye nor drone-view.

A Scottish Historic Buildings Trust evening event on November 12, 2025 at Riddles Court, Edinburgh with Tamsin Grainger and Dr Jonathan Gardner. Ticket link Stretching from the River Almond to the River Esk, Edinburgh’s remarkable coastline runs from one of the few Roman ruins in Scotland to buried quarries and beaches made entirely from the rubble of the city’s demolished buildings.

A walk to celebrate the Autumn Equinox on Monday 22 September 2025, 5.30-7.15pm meeting at The Pitt. Booking link At the Autumn Equinox, there is balance between the daylight and the dark. As we celebrate and embrace this momentary state of equilibrium, let us take a deep breath. Transformation and renewal will come with the start of the season, so this is a good time to pause, walk, and notice what’s around us.

Women Walking the City at Night – a collective drift under the Full Moon. This annual, world-wide walk is the creation of Eleonore Ozanne and 2024 was the third year that she hosted it. Ours was th…

You don’t call it a “walk”. Instead, say things like “we’re going exploring”, “going on an adventure”, “climbing trees”, “looking for bear traces”, or “playing street games”. These sound much more app...

This short film (just under 4 minutes long) was made for the Walking the Land August First Friday Walk . Zoe Ashbrook provided the prompt which, for remote walkers, was ' A Familiar Walk&nbsp...

Scotland has a bit of reputation when it comes to the weather! If you live here, you know that there can be gloriously sunny, crisp days when it is a pleasure to be alive. However, it does rain som…

YouTube video by Kel Arrowsmith

A group enquiry (short course) into the Life-Death-Life Cycle using touch and words with Tamsin Grainger

Using ancient maps from the National Library of Scotland and drawing new ones, Tamsin Granger walked around the edge of Edinburgh in Walking Like a Tortoise. The result was more walks, creative respon...

A group enquiry (short course) into the Life-Death-Life Cycle using touch and words with Tamsin Grainger

A walk around Granton highlightining the industrial heritage treaures

A mixed media walking art exhibition in Edinburgh looking at maps, boundaries and belonging

Celebrating the best in walking art!