Last Sunday we trekked up to St. Andrews. We wanted to visit the oldest university in Scotland, St Andrews University, dating back to 1410. We had read that the town was a beautiful coastal town, and home to St. Andrew's golf course, which I will admit I only know through x-box! Besides St. Andrew is Scott's patron saint!
St. Andrews really was amazing. Its located on the east coast of scotland in the "kingdom of Fife". Bee loved staying in the dorms (one of the dorms is turned into a "hotel" during the summer. Hotel is a stretch i would say, but the cost was right). We also had breakfast in the cafeteria each day, which Bee and Frankie thought was the most exciting thing. Between the university and st. andrew's golf course we did not lack access to good restaurants. We had excellent Thai and Indian. The only let down was the sticky toffy pudding, which is a scotland favorite (more on that one later!).
We put our feet in the North Sea, visited St. Andrew's cathedral and walked by the old castle.
And thank you to the St Andrews University x-country team. We found an excellent 10k run of which 5k meander through the old and new courses of the St Andrew golf course. I snuck off the pathway to run across the 8th green just because it seemed like fun. I snuck into a sand in one of the back holes and drew a hear in the sand - I thought maybe if someone's ball got trapped there it might make them happy.
There's more to say about st andrews and our vacation but I will just post a few pictures for now!
1 comments:
These pictures are so good! They look like postcards. Your kids are so cute.
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