Scotland 2019 10: Crail and Anstruther

Having driven around the outskirts of Edinburgh and gone over the new Queensferry Crossing, we headed along the Fife coast.  The weather wasn't great; nor, to be honest, was the scenery until we'd passed Kirkaldy and the mining towns of East Wemyss, West Wemyss and the (appropriately named) Coaltown of Wemyss.  Once into the East Neuk (literally, "corner") of Fife, everything started to improve - including the weather.  We were too early to check into our B&B in Anstruther, so headed along the coast to Crail: a picturesque fishing community overlooking the Firth of Forth.

 

I've decided that, when I grow up, I would like a house with a tower.  The views from the one below must be spectacular.

The Crail "lobster and crab" shack, where the seafood is cooked to order.

The East Neuk has a reputation of being somewhat isolated, and there's an old story about a man who - when asked if he had ever been abroad - said: "Na, but I ance kent a man who had been to Crail".

After Crail is was back to Anstruther for a bite to eat.  Given the location, and the town's reputation for serving the best fish & chips on the planet, we made a beeline for the Anstruther Fish Bar.  

Yet another Turkish Barber, which we had begun to realise is de rigeur in any Scottish settlement.

The Holy Grail of fish & chip shops, but time spent in the queue was repaid tenfold by the quality of the food - made better still by eating it in the evening sunshine overlooking the harbour.

 

 

Replete, we walked slowly back to the B&B having booked slots on the following day's sailing to the Isle of May.