A walk from Aberdour to Burntisland
The doorway to the walled garden of Aberdour Castle, with a pediment dated 1632, seen on 20th July, 2015.
A view across the Firth of Forth from the footpath between Aberdour and Burntisland, towards the Pentland Hills behind Edinburgh on 20th July, 2015. The hills were bathed in sunshine during the whole of the time it took me to walk from Aberdour to Burntisland, while all around was dark and dismal.
A view across the Firth of Forth from the footpath between Aberdour and Burntisland, towards the Pentland Hills behind Edinburgh on 20th July, 2015. I balanced the camera on top of a steel fence-post in order to take these pictures. The light was very poor and I was surprised they came out reasonably sharp at such a high zoom.
A view across the Firth of Forth from the footpath between Aberdour and Burntisland, towards the Pentland Hills behind Edinburgh on 20th July, 2015.
A view across the Firth of Forth from the footpath between Aberdour and Burntisland, towards the Pentland Hills behind Edinburgh on 20th July, 2015.
A view across the Firth of Forth from the footpath between Aberdour and Burntisland, towards the Pentland Hills behind Edinburgh on 20th July, 2015.
A view across the Firth of Forth from the footpath between Aberdour and Burntisland, towards the Pentland Hills behind Edinburgh on 20th July, 2015.
A view across the Firth of Forth from the footpath between Aberdour and Burntisland, towards the Pentland Hills behind Edinburgh on 20th July, 2015.
A view along the footpath between Aberdour and Burntisland on 20th July, 2015.
A view along the footpath between Aberdour and Burntisland on 20th July, 2015. At this point, a stream cascades down a rock-face on the left and passes beneath the castellated bridge.
Cherries ripening on a tree in the garden of a house near Rossend Castle, Burntisland, on 20th July, 2015. There were masses of them.
Cherries ripening on a tree in the garden of a house near Rossend Castle, Burntisland, on 20th July, 2015.
Cherries ripening on a tree in the garden of a house near Rossend Castle, Burntisland, on 20th July, 2015.
Ideal gala day weather! Who could ask for more? I arrived at Burntisland Links on 20th July, 2015, just in time to catch this torrential downpour. I was absolutely soaked through, and had to wait nearly half-an-hour for a bus.
Despite the rain, the floral beds at Burntisland Links were a blaze of colour.
A view towards the shows at the Links during a torrential downpour on Burntisland gala day, 20th July, 2015.
A view along Kinghorn Road from the bus stop at The Port during a torrential downpour on 20th July, 2015. Burntisland's bus service is abysmal and has declined hugely since I lived there. In the 1970s, if I remember correctly, there were the Nos. 306, 308 and 312 - each hourly - between Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy/Leven/Upper Largo, and Nos. 27 and 57 hourly from Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively to Leven. Now there is only the No. 7 from Dunfermline to Leven, half-hourly. At Leven, I noticed that the last No. 7 departs at 18.00. Too bad for anyone in this part of Fife who has to rely on buses.
After walking from Aberdour to Burntisland on 20th July, 2015, I took the bus to Leven in order to avail myself of the facilities for food-shopping presented by the big Sainsbury's supermarket there. My camera-lens was still wet from the soaking it had received at Burntisland.
It's always good to see that a much-loved landmark such as the S orehea Cafe (formerly the Migraine Cafe) still exists as it always has. But I wonder why the council don't add a few more of those very beautifying signposts around the building? 20th July, 2015.
My eventual destination on 20th July, 2015: the big Sainsbury's supermarket in Leven.