Edinburgh, Elie, St Andrews, Falkland

2nd day in Edinburgh and a late start. We didn’t leave the house until 11:00 am. With Mark’s cousin Rachel, we went on a roundtrip to St Andrews. We have a GPS device into which we program the towns we want to visit. Mark then ignores all instructions and just tries to find a route close to the water; preferably on the beach itself if he can (I’m exaggerating for effect). The first impressive sights were the bridges of the Firth of the Forth, in particular the rail bridge. As we continued northwards around the east coastline we initially found the towns to be dull, grey, and very industrial until we arrived at a village called Elie. Here we found lovely old stonehouses, beautiful sea views and a pub voted Scotland’s Best in 2008. We had Bacon Rolls and Beer before continuing on to Anstruthen (pronounced anstern) and then to St Andews. St Andrews is a little seaside village famous for its golf course and the fact that Princess Di and Prince William studied Art History at the University in 2001 (M: her studies have now also become history) We wandered around another cathedral but unfortunately it was ruined. After losing and re-finding the car we continued on to 2008 Tea Guild Award Winning Tearoom – Kind Kyttock’s Kitchen where we had tea, scones and Scottish Pancakes. We should have stopped there because it was very good but unfortunately we tried their home-baked slices which weren’t very good. We took the fast route home so that Rachel could make Shepherd’s Pie for the masses. I’ve been in contact with my Uncle Kevin and I’m off to meet the Whanau in a local pub for dinner which I’m looking forward to (perhaps not the meal because I’m full of scones) Mark is filling in postcards of which we have quite a few. We plan to journey on tomorrow boldly going where no man has been so cold before!