Includes Forfar
famous for Forfar Bridies , a Scottish meat pasty
Glamis estate workers cottages, now a museum
Friday, March 2, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monday, February 26, 2018
Transport to Inverkeithing - Park and Ride. Taxi Trams Train Bus
2 miles north of the holiday cottage
Stances 1 to 6 to Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow.....
The waiting room
snack dispenser
Also electric car charge points
quote No.1 or no.2 holiday cottage at bottom of Masterton road.
British rail 0845 748 4950
Airdirect bus or train to Inverkeithing station runs every few minutes
Tram station
Historic Forth rail bridge with regular trains to Edinburgh.
Traveline 0870 608 2608
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Islands by boat trip - Forth Estuary. Isle of May. Loch Leven (Kinross) Loch Katrtine
(The Inches)
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Bo'ness and steam railway
Just 12 miles from your holiday cottage.
Run by volunteers. £9 p.p.. £7 concessions.
A one hour exciting burl along the Forth estuary and back.
If you are able, you can alight at the fire-clay mine for a visit underground.
Also railway exhibition museum.
01506 822298
Tea room, shop, disabled facilities.
both seen from cottage window
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Aberdour - Black sands. Aberdour hotel
Excellent home cooking and smaller portions if requested.
To Black sands
6 miles from holiday cottage
Friday, April 21, 2017
Pittenweem and East coast fishing villages
About an hour from the holiday cottage
Anstruther fish bar
Anstruther harbour
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Anstruther. Isle of May
An east coast fishing village
1 hours drive from the holiday cottage
23.10.2013. Still cooked to order
Animals.Otterston Loch, Vane farm.Edinburgh Zoo Pandas. Shetland pony knit
5 miles from holiday cottage (near Dalgety Bay)
Several variety of duck:- Coot, Moorhen, Mallard, etc.
Our woodland:-
The grass meadow paths are a favourite with the badgers,
as well as their well trodden ash paths,
passing over in to the farmer's field for a bit of straw for their bedding.
Although they are usually a dusk and dawn sighting, we have seen a mother and 2 cubs at 3 p.m. in early summer, meandering home.
What else you might see:-
Hare- Pops up all over the woodland.
Roe deer (Seen regularly in groups up to four.)
Fox ( also seen with the cub in her mouth.)
Grey squirrel.
mink, voles.
3 types of bat.
Birds:-
Buzzard, sparrowhawk, peregrine falcon, http://twitter.com/VisitBritain/status/294428139969462272/photo/1
Treecreeper, green woodpecker, long eared owl, lapwing, oystercatchers, yellowhammer,
song thrush, robin, dunnock, magpie, blackbird, chaffinch, great tit, coal tit and blue tit,
linnet (nests in front garden), woodpigeon, goldfinch, greenfinch, pied wagtail on the cottage roof,
unidentified warbler.
Swallow and swifts in summer, fieldfare and redwing in winter.
Curlew in the field in front of the front garden, common gull, geese, the odd skylark.
Pheasant nest each year and several young can be seen following mum up the grassy path to the far away orchid meadow.
December, we've seen 2 pairs of bullfinch and some long tailed tits.
Butterflies and moths.
Bugs and insects:-
Dragonflies, beetles, ants, worms...
Dormant Hawthorn shield bug spotted December 2009
Sunday, December 18, 2016
The Kelpies Falkirk
To commemorate the horses that pulled the barges
on the Forth and Clyde canals
Tours from £4 to £7 per person
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