Strolling along The Scores in St Andrews Fife Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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    Hello Hello Hivians and welcome another Wednesday!

    How is your February coming along?

    I seem to have had an incredibly busy couple of weeks, what with doing things and going here there and everywhere, the one great side thing of all this is that I seem to have taken a fluffing gazillion pictures and have content for weeks.

    The hardest part is putting those memories onto the blockchain!

    This records a wee bit of Saturday 15th February when we had to do some things in St Andrews, in Fife Scotland.

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    A giant meccano set?

    We were walking to the castle that I wanted to go and take Mrs T around and saw this house...

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    When Mrs T who now seems to use her Native American heritage to be my official spotter scout for things said, take a picture of that house it looks like giant mecanno!

    Did you have mecanno sets as a kid? I did and loved building stuff!

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    I am not sure if there was a fire, but the great things is that the exterior wall is being retained.

    I love seeing buildings being renovated or refurbished. Too much seems to be getting destroyed in the name of progress.

    Progress my arse, just the greedy bastards making a fast buck.

    But it did look like a giant mecanno set to me. It also looked a bit like a sheer vertical cliff drop...

    Which brings me nicely to the view from the end of the road...

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    The tide was out as you shall see in a moment or two.

    Can you see what is on that little cliff face?

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    On the right lower corner, three white dots...

    Let's zoom in a wee bit closer

    Gulls siesta time

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    They are a fluffing nuisance and a pest, but are protected.

    They are cute when they are like that, but they are noisy so and so's!

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    We are walking along The Scores a road leading up from the golf course to St Andrews Castle. The castle is a ruin but is so full of history that I shall make a properly dedicated post solely to.

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    My grandmother and her family were from St Andrews so it is a town that is dear to my heart.

    I walked along here many times in my youth.

    The old swimming pool was there but some of what you see is new.

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    The day was wet windy and cold but that didn't deter some people as you will see.

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    In the distance you can see a vast expanse of sand which is called West Sands...

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    I need to take you for a proper walk along there. Of course in the summer now it is jam packed.

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    Gone are the days when you could stroll around at any time and it would only be golfers who were the real tourists.

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    West Sands is actually where I took my steps as little Edward many many years ago!

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    If you saw the bare trees in the early pictures then you might like to know that hidden in there was this gorgeous wee chappie!

    Sparrow or Dunnoch?

    I intially thought it was a sparrow but google lens threw up the Dunnoch. Maybe @nelinoeva knows more...?

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    The buildings you saw where the St Andrews aquarium

    St Andrews West Sands view

    I do love places that have information signs!

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    Do you know that I have never been to the aquarium?

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    Sharks Rays Penguins and Meerkats!

    That might be interesting to see after all ifthey feed them and give some decent talks.

    Meerkats are all over UK television commercials, not sure about your country?

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    I think this is an Italian restaurant, talk about a cracking sea view!

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    Never been though, in fact it is rare I go to an Italian restaurant anywhere!

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    One last sea view of West Sands

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    I shall leave you with a shot of loads of people on this cold wet winter's February day walking along the beach, some were even paddling.

    Join me next week as we shall explore Martyr's monument and the home of golf!

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    Cheers everyone!

    Well this post is for #wednesdaywalk which was inspired by @tattoodjay

    Thanks for visiting and I hope you managed to get out for a walk this week.

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    All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated. Note images are all snapped by me with my Google Pixel 9 XL Pro smartphone on the 15th February 2025 and some were used in canva to make the lead image.
    @tengolotodo February 19th 2025

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