Castles and birds and things

On Thursday we took a tour of the school...


I kind of forgot to take pictures during the rest of the tour, so... here's St Salvator's quad. :)  (All of these are, believe it or not, taken from exactly the same standing place... I just turned around)

Ok, so I lied... I did take a few more pictures.  Two to be exact.  Here's a preview of the castle: (which I fully intend to explore at some point)

And the lovely North Sea:

We did some shopping/exploring on the way back to the dorm, and found this little fellow...

We've seen him at least twice now.  He has absolutely no fear of humans.  The only time he runs away is when someone nearly steps on him and he has to scurry out of the way.  Not sure if he  can fly at all.  Anyway, that's all for now... :)

3 days before the first day of classes...

.... and I'm finally registered for "Manuscript Illumination in Western Europe" and "Heroic History: the Age of Beowulf".

We'll see how this goes...

So it does exist here....

Settling in

Picking up where I left off...

Our lovely room:

Tuesday afternoon we went exploring around St Andrews.  We went down "South Street", apparently one of the three main roads in town, and found some interesting places.  A "rummage" store with neat old things, a bakery, cheesemonger (lol), butcher, etc.  Oh yes, and of course a kilt maker's shop...

We also saw some really pretty architecture

... and some ruins....

And then finally, after some tea at a nice little cafe/restaurant, we headed back to the dorm and explored the older part of the building.  Unfortunately we couldn't find the light switch, so you'll just have to imagine the rest of the last two pics...