Hello! How have you been? This month has been a tough one on so many fronts, so we took a much needed holiday last week. It was a bit of an unplanned one – we hadn’t booked a holiday this year. Between this, that, and the other the idea of a holiday fell by the wayside, but when the chance came up to have a little holiday in Fife for a week, thanks to my sister-in-law, we jumped at the chance. So the three of us (plus our pet parrot!) journeyed 20 miles up the road, over the Firth of Forth, and settled down in Fife for the week.
Despite living so close to Fife for the past five years, it isn’t a place I’ve really explored very much. I grew up on the west coast of Scotland, so the east coast is still a bit here be dragons land for me! What a blast we had this week exploring the area though – it just goes to show that you don’t have to travel far from home to have a fantastic family holiday!
The first place we hit up was Burntisland. Burntisland is fantastic for families – it has a brilliant green flag beach, a lovely park, heaps of walks, some great cafes (we like Potter About on wet days – great for keeping kids entertained – and Food for Thought, which also has a great fair trade market in it), and in summer a funfair on the links by the beach. We caught the last day of the funfair which went down a treat with my thrill seeking little ‘un!
You can even wave to Edinburgh from the shore of the beach!
On another day of our holiday we visited the town of Falkland. I hadn’t heard of Falkland before, but it was like a little undiscovered gem for me!
As well as being such a picturesque town, there is the lovely Falkland Palace, a National Trust for Scotland property. It’s a little pricey to get in (£12.50 each) and not much for toddlers to do inside the actual palace, but the gardens and orchards of the palace are a dream.
We had hours and hours of fun in the gardens and orchard, where we happened upon some amazing willow sculptures, like this one of Mary Queen of Scots, above!
It’s probably enough photos for one day – I’ll share some more from our holiday in Fife another day. There was a surprising amount of fun things to do there!
Ooh this makes me want to go to the Kingdom of Fife again!
Looks like a lovely holiday, you were in our neck of the woods, we live in Aberdour and love Potter About and Food for Thought too. Falkland looks beautiful, would love to go there one day, we don’t have a car so it’s a bit tricky but we get visitors with cars so could go with them.
I’ve only ever gone through Aberdour on the train, but it looks so pretty! It’s on my list of Fife places to visit! We don’t have a car, but my parents-in-law do and live near Falkland so we were able to hitch a ride with them!
E is getting so so big, we will need to see you guys again soon!
I’ve not been to Fife for a while, I’ve got family in Burntisland and think there are some links to Aberdour but its a long time since I’ve been over! x