St Andrews

After our wee stay at the Inn at Lathones we set off for St Andrews, we planned to check out the castle, cathedral and because of the trip adviser reviews the Swilcan Bridge. It ended up being a thoroughly damp day but we figured we might as well brave the weather since we were there, and it turned out kind of brilliant, for the most part we had the castle to ourselves, which was fun to explore the wells, which Dixon was sure I was going to drop my phone down into, (which someone had before us, in the last photo of a well you can see something blue) you also could head deep down into the mine. Which I will admit felt a wee bit claustrophobic at times, especially since you need to duck the whole way in.  

We had a wee wander on the shore before heading up to the Cathedral, which is also in ruins but you can climb up a tower as well. The view was pretty amazing which would have probably improved if the rain had let up a wee bit, but it was still gorgeous. There were loads of interesting gravestones, and you know me a sucker for a good graveyard. 

Finally we headed to the old course, because as people said in their reviews, 'I still have goosebumps thinking about getting my picture taken on the bridge'. Now I will have to admit that i am not a golfing fan in the slightest, and had never heard of the Swilcan Bridge before heading out there, so we were mostly just taking the piss a wee bit, but it was a lot of fun, and you could really tell people were genuinely excited to have their photo. So that was pretty cool. (Dixon is not actually as excited as he looks hehe)

St Andrews was lovely and I think I would definitely be back again, hopefully for a wee bit of better weather.

 

I learned for my mistake at the convention, I saved all of my snaps.

The Inn at Lathones

Dixon and I managed to get ourselves a wee getaway last weekend, it was really nice to be able to just leisurely leave in the afternoon for our hotel and know that then next day was for sightseeing. So we booked ourselves in at the Inn at Lathones, it looked pretty close to St Andrews but a wee bit remote. So just tucked away in the hills we found ourselves checking into a free upgrade! I had never had that before so instead of the standard double, we got a king and a much larger room, and the bath had jets!! Included in the room was £15 each towards our evening meal and breakfast, so we settled ourselves down in front of the fire and had a gin and tonic and a beer while we waited for dinner. Which was also lovely. The Inn itself was featured in the ghost stories book I have in the photo below, it stated in there that the inn dated back to before 1718 where the owner of the inn was married, but his wife died at the inn and him shortly after, there were a couple other bits, but what I found interesting was the stone above the heart had inscribed their initials and the date, so at least that wall was from 1718.

From here we made our way to St Andrews, but I took so many photos, that will have to be in the ext post.