{"id":92100,"date":"2018-06-22T22:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-st-andrews-1000-years-old-and-its-still-an-old-romantic\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T16:04:16","slug":"lets-move-to-st-andrews-1000-years-old-and-its-still-an-old-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-st-andrews-1000-years-old-and-its-still-an-old-romantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to St Andrews: 1,000 years old \u2013 and\u00a0it\u2019s still an old romantic"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThere\u2019s gothic romance and it\u2019s attractively odd, but maybe it\u2019s not for you if you don\u2019t like students or golfWhat\u2019s going for it? As a romantic backdrop for a future king to meet their future queen, it couldn\u2019t 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\u2019 bones and fishwives waiting for their husbands to come back, or not, from the sea. Check, check, check. It\u2019s 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\u2019s beautiful. It\u2019s charming. It has connections. It\u2019s rich. It has staying power (it\u2019s been around a millennium and more). It\u2019s 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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