Forest bathing in Dundee

Dundee's woods are on its northern edge, where the city meets the Sidlaws. Templeton Woods, off Templeton Road, is a mature conifer and mixed wood with a woodland visitor centre and ranger service, and it runs straight into Camperdown Country Park, whose parkland has some of the oldest and biggest trees in the city around the house. Clatto Country Park next door has woodland round a reservoir. Nearer the centre, Balgay Hill is a wooded Victorian park with the Mills Observatory on top, and the Dighty Burn and Trottick Ponds give a greener thread through the north-east of the city.

A session on the edge of a city is still a session: two to three hours, a handful of people, slow walking and long pauses, with birdsong and the odd distant bus. Templeton's conifers give good shelter in winter and Camperdown's open parkland suits summer evenings. Each guide's profile lists their dates and prices.

Camperdown is the easy first choice, with large free car parks, a cafe and buses from the city centre, and Templeton Woods is a few minutes' walk from the same car park with the visitor centre near its entrance.