Having lived in the ancient town of St Andrews for more than twelve months without once swinging a club, I assure you that its beaches, ruins, and cobbled streets offer far more than just the Old Course and hotel culture. After an hour’s travel north by bus, train, or rented car from Edinburgh, you’ll find …
The Fife Coastal Path is an 82-mi/132-km trail that runs along the southern and eastern coasts of Fife from North Queensferry (near Edinburgh) to Tayport (near Dundee). It takes approximately six days to walk the path in full. A small stretch of it, to which I became particularly attached during a yearlong residency in the …
The perfect weekend or day-trip destination from Lisbon for backpackers, café romantics, and families alike, Portugal’s Sintra offers its palaces, ruins, gardens, and squares to the explorer’s imagination. This historic UNESCO World Heritage Site is accessible from downtown Lisbon by a quick 10-mi/31-km drive or a more leisurely one- hour train ride. The Sintra National …