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Parked up behind the west end church in St Monans on a fine sunny morning.
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From the summer of love.
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St Fillan we just
know you have been in there...
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Going up the lane to get the key from the coffee shop.
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Bass Rock
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£2 gets us a loan of the key to the cave...
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Interesting cave with lots of St Fillan related info.
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St Fillan no doubt wandered up and down this very staircase many, many times.
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Here one can almost sense the presence of St Fillan as if he was still here.
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What is that ghostly saint-like silhouette there?
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So happy to have stood in St Fillan's cave.
Filled with imaginings of St Fillan's struggles in the cave we wandered back up to the coffee shop where we handed the key over and thanked the custodian for a very interesting visit. They were happy to hear that we'd enjoyed our visit and carefully explained that St Fillan had never actually been in the cave, just his followers. What?! And that the cave is to be re-named the Mary Magdalen cave next year.
Stunned, we wandered in a daze back down to the Fife Coastal Path. Do we get our two pounds back we wondered...
Well I suppose we could open our garden to the public as St Fillan's garden. He was definitely possibly there in the past. Either him or his followers or maybe Mary.
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Interesting shore but, to be honest, still reeling.
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Bass Rock and North Berwick Law.
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James V really was here obviously because it is completely believable that a Fife woman carried him across a burn for fear of him wetting his hose. Who'd have thought, king
and part-time fireman.
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Don't believe this at all however. Surely everyone knows that Neptune is somewhat more than 5mm in diameter.
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Wee window.
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Church, yellow.
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Another likely story. Here lies the original stone coffin of St Adrian that supposedly drifted across from Isle of May.
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Back to the car via bus and a short walk then a quick diversion to Newark Castle.
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Bit of a ruin to be honest.
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