St. Andrews, Fife

Most of the trips I’ve done have been organized by the International Students Centre at the university, which is run by other international students! These trips are great for the value (prices are often less than just one entry ticket into the tourist destination), hassle-free transportation, and plethora of international students for you to meet!

The next few posts play catch-up and highlight some photos from these trips.

St Andrews, Fife (map)
September 20, 2008

My first trip out of Edinburgh was a daytrip to St Andrews - home of golf, former ecclesiastical capital of Scotland, and a town famous for giving Prince William a university degree.

Our first stop was at the ruins of St Andrews Castle. Seeing the remains of what must have been a majestic building makes you wonder at what point people decided it's okay to stop taking care of it.






















Next up were the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral.





























Christophe, from Belgium also on exchange at Edinburgh, and I decided to climb up the very narrow 157 stairs up St Rule’s Tower. (Christophe has this photo on his blog, minus the crazy hair!)




















From this view, you can see the site of the castle ruin behind the tips of the spires.


























After a delicious lunch at a little sandwich shop, we wandered around town and past the Old Course. I decided that bringing two barely charged camera batteries would be the perfect way to not get many photos of the afternoon, but managed to snap this one of a fantastic street sign loaded with meaning...



















...and this one proving that people in St. Andrews really like St. Andrews! (That blob you can see way in the distance is the castle.)

The full album at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2169716&l=54c0c&id=90402206 has many more photos from this trip. Once again, they're on Facebook but you don't need to be a member of Facebook to see them!