20140424 A Good Walk Spoiled...

...is one of my favorite book titles. Refers, of course to golf, and today was a day full of golf course views. We took a walk down to the sea on the beautiful grounds of Kinkell House, our b&b, which happens to be sandwiched between two golf courses.

Rapeseed fields are in full bloom (renamed canola in the U.S.).

Then we dropped off laundry (turns out there aren't laundromats, but instead, real people do your laundry for you in their laundromats, $21+ for a suitcase full, ouch, but nicely done) and headed into St. Andrews for some retail therapy for me and a bookstore for Allen (Sir Walter Scott, History of the Midlothians).

Met Nat for great fish and chips takeout, which we ate overlooking the Old St. Andrews golf course.

The fish/chips shop also sells fresh and smoke seafood, including local scallops, so pretty.

On to a walk through the St. Andrews golf course, and a study of golf fashions.

They call then sand bunkers here.

And back to town along the sea.

This was all so much fun that we totally forgot about our parking meter, and returned to the car an hour late to find a 30-pound fine.  Ouch again.

Pretty pickled herring

A high school band rehearsing after school.  They sounded really great!