The East Neuk

We went up to stay with M's brother in the East Neuk of Fife. Well not with them exactly but M hired a cottage
and I hired a car to get us from Glasgow Airport. Top marque, as you can see.
It cost twice as much as I expected and we hardly used it (except for picking up her dad from Cupar station and for me returning it to Glasgow Airport, to save the £35 it would have cost to return it to Edinburgh Airport, from where, bizarrely, I had booked my return flight. It went like a rocket, though). I had to catch bus/train/bus back to Edinburgh, which must have saved all of £10.
Lots of walks along the coast, to Pittenween

and Elie,

from our base in St Monans, where sadly boatbuilding is at an end. A local man is single-handedly dismantling Millers boatyard and presumably sending the scrap to China.
It is quite bizarre to be sitting outside at 1130pm with the sky still bright. A different country indeed.
Sadly I am now back in the south struggling with a possible tropical virus, while M and her dad, brother, nephew and sis in law are enjoying the northern summer.