Lower Largo

We set off for Shell Bay woods this morning, but it was such a beautiful sunny day that we went to Lower Largo instead. It’s only twenty minutes away.
We parked the car near the beach and walked along until we came to The Crusoe hotel. It’s in the process of being refurbished, but they are open for food and drink now. It’s dog-friendly so we stopped for lunch. I had a bowl of Cullen Skink and some fresh bread. It can be quite a risk ordering this but they obviously have a good chef, because it was delicious. Chunky, creamy and full of flavour.

After lunch we headed through the village and walked the Coastal Path to the West towards Leven. There were very few people out walking. The beach seemed vast and empty and Geordie would have loved to be running around enjoying himself, but no, he stayed on the lead and I just picked up my pace a bit. I wouldn’t have liked to be stuck there for hours trying to get him back on the lead.
We turned and retraced our steps back though the village to the car, and home.

Extra is the statue of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish Privateer and Royal Navy Officer, who, in the early 1700s spent four years and four months marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. It was on this experience that Daniel Defoe based his book Robinson Crusoe.