There are many good reasons for visiting the fishing community of Anstruther on the east coast of Scotland, south of St. Andrews. Situated “in the old Kingdom of Fife," as it says in the brochure, a tourist gets the chance here to gain an insight into the background of the Scotland we know today.

It was the lady behind the counter where I go to buy my morning paper in Stirling, a town in central Scotland, who recommended I take a trip to Anstruther during the Easter holiday.

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