Greetings on anothere beaultiful day in Scotland. After spending much of the morning locating facilities for when we travel to the Isles of Mull and Skye, we had a quick bite for lunch here in the flat and then to the car for a half-day tour around some nooks in Fife.

We drove out NW to Guardbridge and the N to RAF Leuchars...on down on a wee road (one carriage way) to Tentsmuir Point, a picnic site and National Trust. The drive through the forest and numerous hiking trails to the end of the road was gorgeous. Many people out hiking, walking dogs, and even horse trails abound. We found a place to park at the end of the road which is a huge parking area and picnic facility. Maybe a hundred cars already parked here. We found a spot to leave the car and then hiked a small ways over the dunes to the seashore.
Shorts walk from the forest over the dunes to the seashore

At the seashore you could see across St. Andrews Bay to the town of St. Andrews...just in the hazy background.

This is lovely shot of the roadway through the forest to Tentsmuir Point.


This is some of the popular picnic area at Tentsmuir.

From Tentsmuir we drove on the back roads through Viewiport-on-Tay, Wormit, and Bottomcraig following along the Firth of Tay and westward from the Tay Bridge. Quite beautiful scenery.
This is an example of the wee roadway we were driving taken from our very dirty front car window.

Beyond Bottomcraig is a wee into Kirkton (a roadway about the size of a San Francisco driveway). Fortunately nay cars coming onward, but a dog lay in the road and we thought it might be dead..no just a preferred sleeping place apparently. As we continued around this alleyway-road in Kirkton, we came to a small black wrought-iron gate which led into the Balmerino Abbey. Fabulous Ruin!!

This abbey was built by Queen Ermangarde in 1229 who was married to King William the Lion, who was descendent of William The Conqueror, and mother of Alexander II.

This Abbey must have been incredible.





This is a chestnut tree thought to have been planted by the queen. Just took this picture so the grandchildren could something living that's older than me!!

Further north towards Newport we saw a farmer columbining his wheat field and just beyond was an old ruin of an abbey, possibly Lindores Abbey. No way to drive to it. Perhaps you can get to it by footpath somewhere
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Into Newport for a quick ice cream treat before heading back to St. Andrews.



A fine day!