Fife Coastal Path Day 1

So we're back from our walking adventure, and over the next few days I'll be blogging about our travels along the Coastal Path.

With a short amount of time, we decided to pick the best section of the route: Kirkcaldy to St Andrews. Also this helped our plan of using public transport as we could get to both locations.

So the holiday started in a rather uninspiring location - Glenrothes bus station. The skies were grey, but looked set to clear.

Arriving in Kirkcaldy the weather was no better - North Sea fog covered the beach!

Fortunately the route was well signposted. So we were off.

Kirkcaldy is not very exciting so we quickly left the town behind. We didn't stop at the castle as we wanted to get moving and the visibility was poor.

Hugging the shoreline we followed the old boundary wall of Dysart House.

This then lead through a tunnel and out into Dysart harbour.

The blue sky was just beginning to break through.
Dysart is a pretty harbour now but has had a busy industrial past.

Leaving Dysart we passed clear signs of this heritage

Soon the coastal villages came thick and fast. Next up was Wemyss. Wemyss has undergone recent restoration. The village is now pristine.

We stopped here for a spot of lunch.

Wemyss is also known for the caves outside town.

Then the lowlight of the walk - the towns of Buckhaven and Methil. These are still industrial towns, whose fortunes were down to local coal mining. Now they are using the old docks for offshore renewable energies.

We sped on to our final point for the night: Lower Largo.

The village beckoned.

Lower Largo is a very pretty place. We had a meal at the Crusoe Hotel, a pint at the Railway Inn, then up the hill to our campsite for the night.

To be continued...........

Night of the museum

Last weekend was 2012's Museums at Night event.

I was lucky enough to find myself in London on Friday night with time to myself, so I headed to the V&A museum (open til 10pm every Friday!)

I've become a big fan of art museums since they became free a few years back. I don't know much about art, but enjoy just being able to 'dip in' for an hour or two.

Here were some of the things which caught my eye:

V&A is about design art rather than the 'painting' sort, and as you can see, it covers every corner of the globe.

After a nice little stroll I then treated myself to a pancake at the local creperie in South Kensington.

This one was a Buckwheat Tartiflette (that's bacon and cream).

Nom!

A different type of holiday

So at the end of May we're having a holiday with a difference. We're walking around the Fife Coast path. It starts at the Forth Bridge and up to St. Andrews and beyond.

The Rules are as follows:
- We'll be getting to the start by bus, and coming home by bus
- We're camping all the way, carrying our kit on our backs.
- At least one night we'll try wild camping.

 Here is our tent. We put it up last week to air it:

Fife is a very pretty part of Scotland with lots of nice coastal villages like this:

Along the way we hope to eat lots of good fish & chips, which this area is famous for.
I only have a small backpack. I must try not to take too much.

I hope also to have room for homemade granola bars and parkin cake (a Northern English speciality) to sustain us as we go.