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Diana Jackson

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  • Scottish Author Book review ~ A Darker Domain by Val McDermid

    This is a multi layered crime / mystery, with flashbacks to the time of the tumultuous miners’ strike in Fife, as DI Karen Pirie works to solve two seemingly very different cold cases. Meanwhile Bel Richmond, a freelance journalist, finds a sinister poster and some blood stains in an abandoned villa near where she is…

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  • Diana’s Virtual Tour of the Fife Coast ~ Crail ~ The Jewel of East Neuk

    My first awareness of Crail was as a jigsaw puzzle, the harbour being so full of character with its wee fisherman’s cottages and boats bobbing in the water inside the protective harbour wall. When you first stumble across Crail you usually park in the village, with ample off the road parking, a neat tree lined…

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  • Diana’s Virtual Tour of The Fife Coastal Path ~ Anstruther

    Continuing my walk along the Fife Coastal Path, following the wee fishing villages of Pittenweem and St Monan’s you come to Anstruther, or ‘Ainster’ as the locals call it. It is from here in the summer that you can catch a ferry to The Isle of May and even over to North Berwick, passing the…

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  • A Birthday Party al fresco in the January Sunshine

    On Wednesday we went back to the roots of our Scottish adventure and our total change of life’s experience. A little bird told us that it was Moira’s birthday and though The Wee Shoppe is not usually open on a Wednesday there were whispers that there was going to be a wee celebration. The Wee…

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  • Pittenweem ~ The Fisherman’s Hub and other Special Attributes

    Next along the Fife Coastal Path from St Monan’s is the fishing village of Pittenweem, the hub which catches and distributes fresh fish to all of Fife and beyond. There is a fish shops straight from the boats at the back of St Monan’s. We buy ours in Burntisland, but a van also brings fish…

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  • St Monan’s ~ One of the Gems of The Fife Coast

    The folks of Edinburgh all know the secret of East Neuk, a coastal region in Fife where the estuary of The River Forth merges with The North Sea. Each village has it’s own character and features; St Monan’s being just one of those places. ‘Neuk is the Scots work for nook or corner,’ Wikipedia informs us,…

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  • Lower Largo to Elie ~ A Pause for Reflection on the Fife Coastal Path

    The walk between Lower Largo and Elie is at first wild and wonderful; a long sandy rock strewn beach, a nature reserve, shell bay and the hill you see in the photo above, where we looked back and reflected on ‘life ~ past, present and future’ as we gazed back over the coastal path already…

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  • What’s in a name? The Walk Inn, West Wemyss

    After visiting East Wemyss Caves (my last post ) one of my friends suggested popping in to The Walk Inn in West Wemyss. I cheered at her mention of the name because this cafe, once run by the community of West Wemyss, was a regular haunt for my husband and I during our first stay…

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