Blogs from Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

Today, I hiked the section of The Fife Coastal Path between St. Andrews and Crail. It was 15 miles there & back. The path takes you from the beach by our house along the Scotland coastline to a golf course. The path is gorgeous.. I loved hiking in nature and the silence. It was so peaceful and calming. Later I will be going to dinner with Aubrey's roommates Becky and Hayley then going to be the Minion movie! I love my minions!... read more

We survived our first day of driving! Our rental car is hilarious - since we're renting an automatic car in a primarily manual country, the only automatic car available was a pretty sweet minivan. Anyways, we left Edinburgh yesterday morning, and only got lost for about an hour on our way to Stirling Castle. Stirling Castle was really pretty, and had awesome exhibits on Mary of Guise (the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots), and tapestry weaving (my inner yarn-ahaulic celebrated). The tapestry re-creation on site was phenomenal - it depicted the Hunt of the Unicorn (symbolism of Christ). From Stirling, we made our way to the Fife area to spend a few nights with our friends. Our friends live in a small town on the coastal trail called Anstruther (home of the best fish & ... read more

After an easy morning across London and flight to Edinburgh its straight into a car - and beautiful sunshine in Scotland!! No, I'm serious, the sun was out. So we've gone the long way around back to my old digs of 1997 in Kincardine village on the River Forth, home while I worked at the power station. This is a small miner's village, the mines operated from the '50s to about 2002 but it still describes the village. My old pub, Garvies is still the same just a different owner. The place was buzzing because the locals were warming up for the trip into town to watch Scotland play Gibralter and the word obviously passed around quickly "...there's some Australians 'ere in th' barrr" (imagine it with a thick Scottish accent). We've taken the long way ... read more

Once upon a time you needed to take a ferry to cross the Firth of Forth, just west of Edinburgh. Fifty years ago, all that changed as the Forth Road Bridge opened. The ferries stopped and motorists saved a lot of time on their journeys. Of course, rail passengers have been able to utilise the more picturesque Rail Bridge since 1890. As time has progressed, the road bridge has got busier and busier and it is estimated that some 65000 vehicles now cross over it every day. The bridge is struggling to cope as it was designed in a day when far fewer cars were on the road and nobody could have predicted the exponential growth in road traffic. The solution is a new bridge which is being built in clear view of the old one. ... read more

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