The ‘East Neuk’ of Fife runs from St Andrews south to Largo Bay and is well known for the picturesque and beautiful fishing villages of Elie, St Monan’s, Pittenween, Anstruther and Crail. There are lots of things to do (for ideas see East Neuk Wide as an example) as well as lots of fantastic self catering holiday houses such as Elie Cottage for visitors to enjoy. Most are old cottages and merchants’ houses with crow-stepped gables and tiled roofs, huddling round stone-built harbours and free from the hustle and bustle of the inland old merchant towns.
Freshly landed seafood is a specialty as are world class golf courses and restaurants with plenty of bracing coastal walks to blow off the cobwebs, including the way marked Fife Coastal Path.