Burntisland

Here are just a few photos of are explorations so far.

Sunrise from our window.

A Bullfinch in the garden.

There is a coastal path in Fife going all the way from North Queensferry to Tayport.  These pictures are from the Burntisland to Aberdour section.

Entrance to Rossend Castle.

Rossend Castle.

Burntisland Docks.

Shipyard on the way to Aberdour.

Icicles at a waterfall.

Seals basking on the rocks.

More seals!

Arthur's Seat and the Edinburgh skyline. 

John at the Aberdour lighthhouse.

Ruined pier at Aberdour.

New Year

 John's family came to stay at New Year.  

Barney enjoying the freezing water at the beach.

Jane

The family

Barney in the Sunlight

Tom

 One morning this rig appeared out of the fog.  It stayed for a few days while they carried out repairs.  It was the source of great entertainment over the weekend.  Its actually sat on a Hawk cargo ship.  The cargo ship consists of the two end sections and and a flat section between them which the rig is sat on.

The rig.

On New Year's Eve we watch the fireworks in Edinburgh and lit a Chinese latern.  I'm afraid my firework shots are too blurry to include here.

Lighting the Chinese Lantern.

On New Year's Day we visited Aberdour and stumbled on the annual Looney Dook! 

We decided not to join in.

The Looney Dook 

Christmas Day in Burntisland

When the tide is out you can walk out to "Black Rock" and Kinghorn. 

With our new Wellies we set off across the sands.

Snow on the beach and a view back towards Burntisland.

Burntisland with "The Bin" (The Hill) behind.

Our House.

Its us

The view towards Inchkeith island.

John testing his new wellies.

A Curlew.

Local runners.

The Move

Only we could pick the week of the worst snow in 50 years!

Thankfully its all over and we are now settled in Burntisland.

Spott before we left.  This is the path that all our belonging came out to the van over.

We planned to park the van round the back and load up there but the 2 feet of snow put pay to that.

Mulder deciding not to venture out. And he didn't for the next 5 weeks!

 There was just us moving all our things so we hired a van, little did we expect a diesel shortage due to the weather.

Rutted ice on the motorway at Edinburgh.

John - still smiling even though a 1 hour journey took 4 hours!

We had to do multiple journeys in the van but heavy snow, ice, temperatures of minus 9 and massive jams slowed us down a bit.

Congestion and snow on the journey between Spott and Burntisland.

Plenty of time to take photographs.

Aberdour - en route to Burntisland.

Burntisland - heading down to our road.

Our road - it would be unadopted and ungritted wouldn't it!

We couldn't get up the drive so everything  had to come up this slope.

Home sweet home.

 We planned to stash boxes in the garage but the previous owners had to leave their furniture there as the removal firm wouldn't collect it in the snow.  So everything had to go upstairs.

But it was worth it for the view.

The view across to Arthur's Seat.

 You can expect more pictures of the view to come!