St. Andrew's Scotland

 

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club

We left Aberdeen and followed the North Sea. We passed lots of fields of potatoes and turnips as well as wheat, barley, and oats. Most of Scotland is owned by 20 families with farmers renting the land. Just before reaching St Andrews, we started seeing soft fruits of strawberries and raspberries. St. Andrew is a town of 17,000 about half of them students at St. Andrews University. We started at the old course, where they were just taking down the stands from the 150^th British Open. The old course is not the oldest golf course, but the Royal and Ancient Golf Club
is where the rule making body meets.

St. Andrew's Cathedral

St. Andrews Cathedral was built beginning in 1159 to hold the relics of the Saint. It was the largest cathedral in Scotland with six spires, but the cathedral was abandoned during the protestant revolution and began the path to ruin. Many of the stones were used in other buildings. It still makes for an impressive sight. St. Andrews is known for the most murders for reason of faith in the UK.

St. Andrews Cathedral

We visited Salvator Court, one of the colleges of the University. The University is the third oldest founded in 1413. It was founded here because this was the seat of the largest bishopric Scotland. We went on to see St. Andrew’s Castle, which changed hands between the Scots and English numerous times until blown up by the Scots.

After lunch, we continued to Edinburgh.