Sunday 6th July 2025.
Let’s go North tour.
We started the day with a visit to Lidl to stock up and the fuel station to fill with diesel, we then continued on the coast road, using today the A921, A955 and A917. We had good views of the coast and islands off shore.
We stopped in Kirkcaldy, taking some time to find a car park large enough to take Homer and we walked from the promenade into town. Sadly as we got halfway along the High Street it began to rain heavily so we beat a hasty retreat to Homer. Moving on we passed through some attractive small villages where again lack of parking meant we couldn’t stop, so we continued to St Andrews.
Our parking space in St Andrews was next to the famous Golf Club on West Sands Road, free parking but no overnight stays.
St Andrews is a seaside town NE of Edinburgh and is known for its many golf courses. On a headland nearby are the ruins of St Andrews Castle with its medieval bottle dungeon. Close to the castle is the University of St Andrews founded in 1413 and attended by Prince William and Catherine.
As we walked towards town we could hear music playing and there in the band stand was a brass band playing, I assume a Sunday tradition.
A short walk past the castle you come to further ruins of a church and the ruined Cathedral.
St Andrews is a pleasant town and well worth a visit, being a Sunday it was quite busy and there were quite a few foreign tourists, but the town wasn’t too busy and it was easy to walk around.
Few further photos.
Tonight’s stop is a small basic campsite about 10 miles north of St Andrews, it’s along a lane surrounded by farm fields full of wheat, you don’t need to book just pull up, park where you will and drop £5 in the payment box.
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