March 26, 2017. Hiking the Fife Coast Trail

LOCATION:  Housesitting in Cupar, Fife, Scotland.

WEATHER:  Another beautiful day.  Sunny. Highs about 60

A bit about this housesit....   We are about 30 miles north of Edinburgh.  The closest town is Cupar, with a population of about 9000.  Our housesit is about 3 miles outside of Cupar, in the middle of farmland.  

  There is a big house, that used to be the owner of all the property, then 4 small stone cottages where the farm workers used to live  The cottages were built in the early 1800s.  The previous owner of ours combined two of the cottages into one home.  So, there are several small rooms, including a pool room, an office, lounge, and bedrooms.  

On the backside there is a lovely conservatory.  On sunny days, it gets really toasty inside.  

For Mothers' Day today, George picked some daffodils for me.  He knows I would have been angry if he had actually paid cash for flowers!  This is the view inside the conservatory out to the backyard.  

This is the entrance on the backside.  

 

Our cottage is surrounded on three sides by a farm with cows, baby calves and one sheep. There are baby lambs in many of the nearby fields.  So cute!  

After doing some morning chores and eating a steak and kidney pie for lunch, we set off for the Fife coast.  The little fishing towns on the coast are very picturesque.  They are only about 15 miles away, but it takes awhile to get there, due to the tiny, windy roads.  

We parked in one town and then hiked along the coast trail to another fishing village, about 1.5 miles away.

Between the two towns is a swimming area, a small area walled off the North Sea.  A few people were actually swimming!  I'm sure the water never gets very warm there.  

We ended up in this village, then turned around.  There were a lot of people out, taking advantage of the sunny Mothers' Day.

Back home, we did some computer work, and looked at the weather forecast.  This nice weather is supposed to last another 2-3 days, then the rain will return.  We are going to try to do several hikes while the weather is nice, then will plan to visit a brewery and distillery on the rainy days.  Why not?

 

DINNER: Smoked Scottish salmon in a creamy papperdelle pasta sauce.  Spot on!