Thornton, Fife

Today we drove out of Edinburgh and into the countryside north of the Firth. We crossed the magnificent Forth of Firth bridge.





It took about 2 hours to get to Thornton and it was an easy drive once we crossed the river. We are of course the first relatives ever to visit Thornton, to get lost. We spent half a hour driving down every street we could find, two phone calls to Helen and Alex, and still we could not find them. In the end we spotted Helen standing on a courner and we managed to get to their house. We had afternoon tea and Helen and Alex looked after us well. Alison and James (Helen and Alex's kids), their partners and another couple soon came over to share afternoon tea and stories. Lindsey took a picture of us.

We then went over to Alison and Lindsey's place, they live two doors away. The kids got to ride on the Harley and rev the engine, both of them caused it to backfire. The neighbours started twitching the curtains. At about 6.30pm and all six of us went down to the local chippo. I had red pudding!!! Kids had macaroni cheese and J had fish and chips. The people who ran the place were lovely and gave the kids a great scottish children's book "The broons and oor Willie". We gave them some little keepsakes of Australia. There was a lot of discussion about how the Aussie's were out of the soccer and how well they thought the French might do - no interest in what the English were doing!!!