Travel
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Purely by chance
R and I went off for a walk in Craigtoun Country Park near St Andrews. We were going to look at a reconstructed Dutch village that had just opened, and also at a…
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Birthday Tea
We went to Rhu on the West Coast today for N’s birthday. It is a long drive but quite a pleasant one – today we took R’s rather convoluted route involving three…
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Fife Folk Museum
Continuing the theme of going out every day of R’s “staycation” today, R and I walked over to Ceres to see the Fife Folk Museum. It is about 3.5 miles each way, and…
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Hill of Tarvit Mansion House
Tarvit Mansion is our local stately home and NTS property – just a few miles from Cupar but this was our first visit. We had to go on Sunday, because for some reason…
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In which R is the best (again)…
Of course R has always been the best, but it merits giving an example of why. I was paying a surprise visit to see my Mum in Helensburgh today. I had been hoping…
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MacDuff’s Stone
Went up to Macduff’s stone with some friends today – this is “the” Macduff from the Macbeth story and it was here that he was granted sanctuary by King Malcolm. It was quite…
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When it’s Scone, it’s Scone…
I couldn’t resist the title. J and I went to Scone Palace today and I discovered that it is definitely pronounced to rhyme with “doom” and not “loan”. But this is in general…
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In which M meets the wrong train
It has become somewhat of a tradition that we meet each other off trains. It is only 10 minutes walk to the station and it is a nice breath of fresh air and…
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