Aaron Wong’s Reviews > Lonely Planet Scotland > Status Update

East Neuk
• Cambo Gardens local café
• Kingsbarns Distillery 1h Dream to Dram tour
• restaurants: Haar Asian seafood, Newport, Cellar’s Scot seafood/lamb/pork/beef, Anstruther Fish Bar (deep-fried haddock, dressed crab, battered prawns), Ship Inn seafood/steak
• farm markets: Balgove Larder barbecue lunch, Bowhouse art/craft, Pillars of Hercules vegetarian
- p. 182-185

Beyond St Andrew’s
• East Neuk
• Fife Coastal Path
• Elie Chainwalk
• St Monan’s fisherfolk church
• Craig Millar seafood (16 West End)
• Pittenweem cave chapel & antique shops
• restaurants: Haar Asian seafood, Newport, Cellar’s Scot seafood/lamb/pork/beef
• photographable Crail Harbour
• Reilly Shellfish lobster
• Cambo Gardens local café
• Kingsbarns Distillery
- p. 182-184

St Andrew’s
• Chariots of Fire’s West Sands Beach
• Old Course’s Sunday footpath walks & British Golf Museum
• eats: Seafood Ristorante’s panoramic glass walls, Tailend’s Arbroath fish & chips, Mitchell’s Deli eggs Benedict, Eat Walk St Andrew’s
• Cathedral’s St Rule’s Tower & 8c museum sarcophagus
• Castle
• University’s Wardlaw Museum
• Toppings bookstore
- p. 178-181

Beyond Stirling
• Doune Castle: Monty Python
• Culross: Abbey, Palace painted chamber & garden
• Falkirk Wheel
• Castle Campbell 30min circular walk
• Dunfermline: Abbey, Palace, Pittencrieff Park, Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
- p. 169-170

Stirling
• drinks: BrewDog’s 15 craft beers, oldest Settle Inn, Curly Coo’s 130 single-malt whiskys
• eats: Bréa (seafood, haggis, burgers), Birds & Bees pub food
- p. 166-167

Stirling
• Old Town: 16c cobblestone, Argyll’s Lodging & Cowane’s Hospital’s architecture, 15c Old Bridge stone arches, Old Town Jail
• Back Walk: reformation’s Star Pyramid, 17c octagon earthwork garden King’s Knot, Beheading Stone
• Castle: exhibition, Great Kitchens, Chapel Royal, Great Hall, Royal tapestries’ unicorn hunt, Heads Gallery
• Wallace Monument
• Battle of Bannockburn
- p. 164-166

Plans
• Day trip: St Andrew’s Cathedral & Castle’s Balgove Larder via Queensferry & East Neuk, Scone Palace’s booked 1h tour via Tay Bridge, Kinross’ Loch Leven
• Stirling: Mote Hill via Back Walk, Stirling Castle, Hermann’s lunch
• Anstruther: Scottish Fisheries Museum, Cellar lunch, harbour fish & chips
• St Andrew’s: Fife Coastal Trail, beach, golf
• Perth: Tay riverbank walk/kayak
- p. 162-3

• eats: Nile Valley Café’s Africa wrap, Mosque Kitchen aubergine curry, Sister Bao oil spill noodles & smacked cucumber
• Royal Observatory night-sky tour
- p. 95

South Edinburgh
• Bruntsfield, Morningside: Barclay Viewforth Church, Dominion Cinema’s 30s art deco carpet & chairs, Wild West Town, Canny Man’s whisky
• eats: Kalpna baingnan achari, Kora’s Scot meat/fish, Michelin Condita
• pubs: greasy 32 Below, Dagda Bar ceiling emboss, Royal Dick Bar’s Pickering gin, Southern craft beer, Leslie’s Bar mahogany island, Cloisters Bar ale & whisky church
- p. 92-95

South Edinburgh
• Craigmillar Castle
• National Mining Museum tour
• Rosslyn Chapel
• Golf courses: Prestonfield parkland, gorse Braid Hills
• The Meadows: mini golf, Chapel of St Albert the Great
- p. 89-91