Castle of hilltop
Edinburgh & Fife
LOWLAND
HERITAGE
COAST
FOOD
Five nights split between Edinburgh and the East Neuk. A morning at the National Gallery before opening, a private viewing of a country house collection not on the public list, and three quieter nights in a fishing village in Fife — lobster suppers, long beach walks, and a town that has lived off the sea since the fifteenth century.
A sense of the days
ARRIVAL — EDINBURGH
Met at the airport. Into the Old Town by early afternoon. A walk through the famous closes - Mary King's, Anchor, Advocate’s. Nobody on the Royal Mile has heard of. Dinner in the New Town, somewhere we'd send our family.
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EDINBURGH
A morning in the National Gallery. Lunch in Stockbridge. Afternoon at the Portrait Gallery, the smaller and better of the two. Old Town for the last evening.
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NORTH TO FIFE
Across the Forth in the morning. A long stop at Culross which you’ll recognise as the village that BBC period dramas use because they don't need to dress it. Lunch in Crail. To a small hotel in the East Neuk by evening.
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ST ANDREWS AND THE COAST
A morning in St Andrews — the Cathedral ruins, the West Sands, the Old Course pavement if you care about golf. Lunch at the Cellar in Anstruther. The food the village is rightly proud of. Afternoon in Pittenweem or back along the coast at a slow pace.
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DEPARTURE
Back across the Forth. One stop at a Fife garden if the departure flight is in the afternoon. Edinburgh airport by lunch.
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DEPARTURE — GLASGOW
Driver to the airport.