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The Big Walk – March 24th 2025

Anstruther can get pretty busy on sunny days and definitely in the Summer season but it wasn’t too bad for us to negotiate across town towards our planned route on the other side.

You can see the wonderful sky in that shot. Almost all, of these images are phone shots, I decided not to carry a camera, easier to keep walking and concentrate on that and the family.

All the buildings here are old and some reminded me of old Dutch style buildings with castellated roofs.

The building on the left looks like it is now apartments but my memory tells me it was a hotel in the past, someone took a lot of effort decorating the side wall with sea shells.

As we cleared the town, we followed the Fife Coast Path.

Our trek started on the far rightmost before that orange coloured 90 degree bend and ended just above the number 3 in Pittenweem, following the blue trail.

The shoreline is pretty rocky and there’s loads to see and explore, if you stopped for that 🙂

There was a good stiff breeze blowing as we rounded the headland and started getting glimpses of Pittenweem.

Over there, across the Firth of Forth is the coast and North Berwick, Tantallon castle and so on.

You can see the structure of the shoreline in this panorama with Pittenweem on the far right.

As a note for anyone who takes lots of phone photos, I use an app called Bimostitch to create my panoramas.

We finally dropped down into Pittenweem via the harbour.

We were looking for St. Fillan’s Cave and found it very easily up a steep hill tucked between houses but, it was closed!!!!

There’s a fair amount of up’n’down again in many of these old fishing towns!

It’s quite small in there and fascinating. Of course I had to volunteer to run back up to the cafe with the key we no longer needed 😉

I did stop for a quick cloud photo though 🙂

And that was that! We set off back the way we had come, there are buses that run between all these coastal towns but everyone decided we’d walk back.

I spotted an interesting bit of rust just off shore.

An old ships boiler by the look of it, there are plenty wrecks in this area.

The sky had been beautiful all day but odd clouds were forming now.

We all managed the full walk, some a little achy and ready for the rest. This ruined church sits just on the edge of Cellardyke and I just love the photo opportunities.

After that walk ….

The walk was just over 2.1 miles, one way so, around 4.5 miles all told.

We’d been lucky with the weather and thoroughly enjoyed our walk, if I remember right, we had fish n chips that night, with two award winning chip shops, who wouldn’t!

DELICIOUS.

More tomorrow.

I’m adding a link to Walk Highlands route maps for the Fife Coastal path, for those of a mind to come over and have a go, I’ve met a lot of people from all over the world on this walk.

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