00:00I think it's, well, many things, like we're so lucky to have so many beautiful paths with trees,
00:06but also because you've got the play parks, Pets Corner, this is kind of something for everyone,
00:11so today we're here with some friends with their little girl, so we've actually been
00:14rollerblading alongside, but yeah, you can make it kind of a whole day out or just like a really
00:19nice dog walk, which is lovely. There are so many things to do in Jesmondeen, as well as in Heaton
00:25Park, Armstrong Park and Paddy Freemans. You can take the family to visit the animals in Pets Corner,
00:30you can have a walk along the hilly paths around the old mill, or you can enjoy a coffee at Millfield
00:34House. Yeah, it's just like an excuse to get out the house, I only live around the corner, so
00:38quite nice having it on the doorstep. Yeah, I was here visiting my sister, I just like to see
00:43people that I know around here. Yeah, I walked through Heaton Park on the way here,
00:47because my sister lives in Heaton, so yeah, it was a nice little walk, but a bit slippy.
00:54You can enjoy sliding down the slides in Heaton Park, a game of tennis at the Paddy Freemans,
00:58or even enjoy spotting the fantastically diverse birds and other wildlife while strolling along
01:03the park's many, many nature trails. I don't know, we always feel like nice and calm afterwards,
01:08you know, just enjoying getting out in nature, but we also like go for runs as well,
01:13if we can convince him to come with us, but it's like lovely for that,
01:18because you can easily get like a nice ice cream.
01:24The many different routes and terrains across the park network certainly lend themselves to
01:28all kinds of running. Every Saturday, hundreds of intrepid and possibly slightly mad runners
01:33race up and down these hills back here as part of the Jesmond Dean Park Run.
01:39On a Saturday morning, hundreds of park runners come along here,
01:44absolutely free of charge, running around Jesmond Dean, seeing the beautiful environment.
01:50But these hills are tiring to walk up, and while those runners run all the way up,
01:59I'll just quickly show you how far up we are. There's a valley down below you there.
02:08So yeah, if you want to come to Jesmond Dean on a Saturday morning and do a run,
02:14you certainly can do, but I'm out of puff from just walking it.
02:17I used to work at Newcastle University, and we also used the park a lot for some of the
02:22geography research that we were doing with the students, and that was amazing,
02:26to be able to get the students to come to a place on their doorstep and learn all about the river
02:31and how that functions, and we were studying things like the kind of local ecology as well.
02:38So it's really nice that we can also use it for science and also teaching the future
02:45generations about nature and the way in which I suppose the world works.
02:50Yeah, we've literally just walked through the bird bit and then just walking past it now,
02:54so we haven't had a proper look yet.
02:55We tried to speak to the parrot, but he didn't want to speak to us.
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