Property News · June 22, 2018

Let’s move to St Andrews: 1,000 years old – and it’s still an old romantic


There’s gothic romance and it’s attractively odd, but maybe it’s not for you if you don’t like students or golfWhat’s going for it? As a romantic backdrop for a future king to meet their future queen, it couldn’t be improved. Rugged cliffs? Check. Wild, windy weather? Check. Glorious white sandy beaches for smoochy, regal walks? Check. Ruined gothic cathedral (dull-but-fascinating fact to entertain your intended: once the biggest cathedral in Scotland)? Check. A fair old trek for paparazzi and everyone else? Check. Captivating alleyways wreathed in spooky tales of ghosts, old saints’ bones and fishwives waiting for their husbands to come back, or not, from the sea. Check, check, check. It’s easy to fall for St Andrews. All those streets of Georgian stone townhouses, bistros and knitwear shops (OK, maybe not the knitwear shops). All that romance.It’s beautiful. It’s charming. It has connections. It’s rich. It has staying power (it’s been around a millennium and more). It’s also attractively odd. There are few other places that combine an ancient university with golf nuts, a fishing port and a bizarrely huge resident student population from North America. Nope, no idea why. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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