Day 357: St Andrews to Kingsbarns – A Golden Light

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Fife, Scotland

Date of walk: 20/10/19

Morning light at St Andrews from West Sands I, Fife, Scotland.

Out Head, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Tentsmuir Forest from West Sands, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

9th hole, Jubilee Course at St Andrews Links, Fife, Scotland.

Morning light at St Andrews from West Sands II, Fife, Scotland.

Dune grass by West Sands, St Andrews Bay, Fife, Scotland.

The Jubilee Course at St Andrews Links, Fife, Scotland.

Morning light at St Andrews from West Sands III, Fife, Scotland.

Hardened Aircraft Shelters at Leuchars Airfield built during the cold war to protect Quick Reaction Alert aircraft, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrew Links, Fife, Scotland.

West Sands, St Andrews, Scotland.

Golf Shop, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrews Cathedral, built in 1158, was the centre of the Medieval Catholic Church in Scotland. It fell into disuse and ruin after Catholic mass was outlawed during the 16th-century Scottish Reformation.

St Andrews Castle built c.1200 and fell into ruin after the trials and tribulations of the Scottish Reformation by 1656, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrews from St Rule’s Tower, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrews Cathedral, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrews Castle with West Sands and Tentsmuir Forest beyond, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrews Castle, Fife, Scotland.

The grave of Hugh Lyon Playfair, Scottish politician, army officer and photographic pioneer, St Andrews Cathedral Churchyard, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrews Cathedral from the pier, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrews Cathedral above East Sands, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrews students emerge from the sea after a drinking ritual on Raisin Sunday, Fife, Scotland.

St Andrews above East Sands, Fife, Scotland.

The Rock and Spindle sea stack, the remains of much eroded volcanic plug, St Andrews, Scotland.

Buddo Rock, a sandstone sea stack, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Babbet Ness, Fife, Scotland.

Ruined salmon fishery bothy at Salt Lake, Fife, Scotland.



Where Kate met Wills.

The famous Scottish inventor’s spirit is in evidence at St Andrews.

It’s a different economy around here.

When I walked through St Andrews University, it was Raisin Weekend, which, as far as I can ascertain, is a hallowed tradition involving elaborate ways of getting drunk!

St Andrews from St Rule’s Tower.
First time I’ve seen two pill boxes connected by a tunnel like this at Buddo Ness near St Andrews.
The burns I’m crossing are no longer peaty golden brown now I’m heading south.
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