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NC500 - The Long Journey Home (Day 12)

There's not really much to say about our final day of our NC500 trip. We had planned to spend the morning enjoying the views in St Andrews. Unfortunately, we managed to choose a very foggy day. We walked along the coast from the golf course to St Andrews Beach. The weather started to clear as it got towards lunchtime, however sadly we couldn't stick around too long as we were conscious of the very long journey we had ahead. We managed to find time to pop to The Cheesy Toast Shack to try their famous cheese toasties. I opted for their classic Mac 'n' Cheese toastie, and Nicole had the vegan haggis one. I would like to say mine was delicious, but a few bites into the first half the seagulls decided that they fancied to finish this half off for me. By the time we then walked the 20-30 minutes back to the car, it was cold so this detracted from the taste. St Andrews is definitely somewhere we will have to think about going back to, but will learn from this lesson and ensure we park somewhere we can eat our lunch in the safety of the car!

After this, we embarked on the long journey back home. We were lucky with traffic and made it in good time, and even managed to make a stop at Tebay services. This is somewhere we have wanted to stop off at, but usually when we are travelling to Scotland we are only going just over the border and therefore it seems like a silly stop to make. We weren't disappointed by the Tebay farm shop and decided to treat ourselves to a rosemary and garlic focaccia and some sausage rolls (1 vegan and 1 meat) to have with the soup we had frozen ready for our tea when we got back. We also picked up a couple of traybake slices too as an afternoon snack. The foods we bought were all delicious and we will definitely be making another stop in the future, possibly even on one of our shorter trips to Scotland. 

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