The East Coast Neuk - April 28
We had a leisurely breakfast again in the Painted Rooster, packed up the car, and set off on the Queensferry Road to St. Andrews. We took the scenic coastal route across the brand new Forth road bridge...but this is the New Bridge, not the Forth Road Bridge which was built shortly before I left Edinburgh. It is stunning! Looks like 3 big white sails. Beautiful!! (if you look carefully in this picture you can see the 3 sails...if you can enlarge it, you will see them better).
We drove through familiar towns such as Dalgety Bay, Burntisland, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, West and East Wemyss, then around the Bay to Elie, a picturesque town with the most amazing beach, a harbour, and a lighthouse, where we stopped in the Ship Inn for lunch. Memories of my youth came flooding back here, and the harbour area was not really much different from when I used to holiday there.
Then we drove on through Anstruther, and Pittenweem to the beautiful little shell-fish fishing village of Crail where we had a wee walk around the harbour.
After Kingsbarn, we arrived in St. Andrews, home of the famous golf course, university, and private schools! The architecture is beautiful in this small town. We walked all over the ruined catholic cathedral, first built in 1158, burned down and rebuilt, blown down by the winds and rebuilt, and then when the Scottish reformation took place in the 1600s and Scotland became protestant, it was left in ruin. In its day, the largest church to be built in Scotland, now it stands in glorious ruin. After that we had a quick look over the castle; found the golf course, and were dismayed to see people and dogs walking all over it. We discovered that the golf course is owned by the people, and every Sunday it is open to the public as a park!! I can feel all you golfers cringing, when you think of dogs and kids playing on the fairways and greesn of your golfcourse!!!
Our B & B for the night was just outside St. Andrews in a small community called Strathkinness. It was lovely! Tastefully decorated, the owners were friendly, welcoming, and efficient, the location in this tiny town barely 9 minutes from St. Andrews is perfect in amongst all the beautiful green fields. Everything was clean, and comfortable. We headed down to the local pub and had a great meal then back to the B & B and bed!
We had a leisurely breakfast again in the Painted Rooster, packed up the car, and set off on the Queensferry Road to St. Andrews. We took the scenic coastal route across the brand new Forth road bridge...but this is the New Bridge, not the Forth Road Bridge which was built shortly before I left Edinburgh. It is stunning! Looks like 3 big white sails. Beautiful!! (if you look carefully in this picture you can see the 3 sails...if you can enlarge it, you will see them better).
We drove through familiar towns such as Dalgety Bay, Burntisland, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, West and East Wemyss, then around the Bay to Elie, a picturesque town with the most amazing beach, a harbour, and a lighthouse, where we stopped in the Ship Inn for lunch. Memories of my youth came flooding back here, and the harbour area was not really much different from when I used to holiday there.
Then we drove on through Anstruther, and Pittenweem to the beautiful little shell-fish fishing village of Crail where we had a wee walk around the harbour.
After Kingsbarn, we arrived in St. Andrews, home of the famous golf course, university, and private schools! The architecture is beautiful in this small town. We walked all over the ruined catholic cathedral, first built in 1158, burned down and rebuilt, blown down by the winds and rebuilt, and then when the Scottish reformation took place in the 1600s and Scotland became protestant, it was left in ruin. In its day, the largest church to be built in Scotland, now it stands in glorious ruin. After that we had a quick look over the castle; found the golf course, and were dismayed to see people and dogs walking all over it. We discovered that the golf course is owned by the people, and every Sunday it is open to the public as a park!! I can feel all you golfers cringing, when you think of dogs and kids playing on the fairways and greesn of your golfcourse!!!
Our B & B for the night was just outside St. Andrews in a small community called Strathkinness. It was lovely! Tastefully decorated, the owners were friendly, welcoming, and efficient, the location in this tiny town barely 9 minutes from St. Andrews is perfect in amongst all the beautiful green fields. Everything was clean, and comfortable. We headed down to the local pub and had a great meal then back to the B & B and bed!
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