St. Andrews, Stirling

This morning we drove into St. Andrews.  St. Andrews is a college town, and a seaport on the North Sea. It is bursting with old structures, churches and ruins of churches.  A fascinating find was that the original "Prime Meridian" was laid out in St. Andrews at a college library 200 years before Greenwich in England established their Meridian as the line that separates the Western and Eastern hemispheres.  The line laid out by Professor Gregory is embedded in the sidewalk outside the library.  

But travelers like us do not flock to St. Andrews to see a line in the sidewalk, they come here because St. Andrews has a golf course.  Not "a" golf course, "the" golf course.  The British Open just finished here two weeks ago.  This is the Mecca of the golf world, golfers come to golf it (it is open to the public - £250/$300) or like me to just look at it and remember many of the British Open moments I have watched on television.

Famously shared greens far side going out, near side coming in.

Swilcan Bridge on the 18th hole

Me channeling Jack, I was certainly feeling it!

From there we drove to our Hotel near Stirling Castle. There we met this gentleman who was preparing for a piping performance.

Stirling Castle has always been a place of grand consequence for Scotland, here stood Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Mary Queen of Scots, and now the Davis's 

King Robert the Bruce

Monument to William Wallace