Day trip in ridiculously great weather Long before there was golf,  St. Andrews homed a castle and a cathedral, both basically piles today. Prince of Wales Wullie? This was the third or forth time Connor Berg & I got together to blether. Back in Dundee, he took me to a few places I’d not been […]

My email address includes a reference to a famous Scot namesake cartoon gardener & the date of the Declaration of Arbroath ( which Tom Jefferson kept on an easel by his desk as he drafted the American Declaration of Independence).  And the smokies are great WHAT ARE ARBROATH SMOKIES? Arbroath smokies are are small haddock […]

Sleeperz Hotel is a great place to stay in Dundee. It is literally above the train station, across from Discovery & the V&A, and a few hundred steps to downtown. I’ll happily stay there again     This guy is everywhere! Do not run your finders through Wullie’s hair.  You might loose a couple of […]

“Oh, for a minute I thought you were Billy Connolly”, the disappointed woman said. Good thing I’m used to disappointing women !   The Victoria Hotel in Kirkaldy was nice and fairly priced. But seeing these flowers still in bloom so late in the year, probably due to global climate changes, is upsetting. Massive promenade […]