We left home in the campervan quite early, and drove to the Ruby Bay car park just outside Elie on the Fife coast. This has a number of motorhome bays, with a 24 hour toilet.
The way you pay for it is a bit inconvenient though. It's £15 for overnight 8pm to 8am, but you can't actually pay for that until 8pm. So if you want to stay for a normal 24 hour period, you have to buy a £2 day ticket, then pay £15 at 8pm. Then in the morning if you want to stay beyond 8am you have to buy another £2 day ticket, making £19 in all.
Anyway, it was beautifully sunny when we got there, and we set off on a walk northwards up the Fife Coastal Path.
After a couple of miles the next village you come to is St Monans. Just before it is the ruined Newark Castle.
On the edge of the village is St Monans Auld Kirk.
We walked to the harbour and had a wander round. Overlooking the harbour is the house where Scott had a lots of seaside holidays as a child, as it was owned by his cousins' family. It brings back a lot of memories.
We sat on a bench overlooking the harbour and had a sandwich.
Then we carried on out the other side of the village, where there is an open air swimming pool and the ruins of salt pans. In the past they used windmills to pump seawater into large pans, then a coal fire to evaporate off the water so they could harvest the salt.
We passed some cormorants sunning themselves on the rocks.
Next village is Pittenweem, which has an open air swimming pool that's been renovated in recent years, and is well used despite the temperature.
Then we walked past the harbour and fish market.
Beyond Pittenweem the path follows the edge of a golf course. We stopped at some rocks to have the rest of our lunch in the sun, it was pretty warm at this point.
As we approached Anstruther there was a display of knitted and crocheted poppies outside a church.
In Anstruther we had an ice cream from Scoop, which was very nice.
On the other side is the smaller village of Cellardyke which has a very picturesque and historic harbour.
We decided there wasn't enough light left in the day to walk as far as Crail, so we went a couple of miles further then headed to the main road to catch a bus back. There was an old dovecot in a field just before the road.
The bus was a bit late in coming but eventually arrived and took us back to Elie.
Later we left Oscar in the van and went to the Ship Inn for a drink. It was pitch dark at 6pm and there were no lights in the car park, we had to use torches to find our way out.
Back at the van we had ratatouille for dinner.
