Our first Sunday back in Scotland, to celebrate our successful move, we decided to ramble for five hours along the Fife Coastal Path. We wandered down to the bus station, purchased two Fife Day Rider Plus tickets, allowing unlimited rides throughout Fife for £9 each, and were off by 11am.
Besides having to transfer in St Andrews, our ride was pretty simple. The bus drivers we encountered were very helpful and friendly and, with their help, we made it to our destination, the tiny town of St. Monans, with ease.
Our ramble would take us from St. Monans, through Pittenweem, Anstruther, and Kilrenny, to Crail. We had no idea what to expect but we were guessing something along the lines of last year's
Arbroath to Auchmithie ramble, so we made sure to pack a lunch. What we actually encountered were adorable, peaceful, picturesque, little seaside towns peppered along the beautiful coastal path. We were absolutely enamoured.
The Fife Coastal Path is actually very long (81 miles) and part of a larger network of walking paths which take you up and down Scotland's coast. We selected this section due to it being highlighted in one of our Scotland guide books. Happily, we had such a lovely time we can't wait to explore more of it. Next time we won't pack a lunch, though. We encountered so many adorable towns with equally adorable pubs that we plan to incorporate them into our future rambles.
Our five hour ramble came to a perfect end when we bid adieu to the coastal trail in Crail, wandering towards the main road, to catch our bus in front of the post office back to St. Andrews. We almost seamlessly caught our connecting bus back to Dundee and were home in what felt like a matter of minutes. We could not have had a better reintroduction to Scotland than this ramble and we're looking forward to the next one.
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I can't wait for our next coastal ramble.
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