Balmeadowside Country Lodges and Cottages

Stays of all sorts are sorted around the locale: lots of local hills are around for brisk hiking days, and the area is crisscrossed too by several pretty pre-Reformation pilgrim walks between abbeys, priories and holy wells, and some are along the River Eden and its tributaries between the area's eight historic mills. Leisurely strolls of varying lengths stretch between various points around the locale such as those between Riverside East and Old Curling Pond, Hawklaw and Kingask and Cupar to Moonzie Kirk via Hilton, all of which make for smashingly scenic countryside ambles. For those particularly keen on touring Fife’s spectacular coastline on foot, the Fife Coastal Path is an absolute must. Speaking of which, sandside days around the seashore are within 25 minutes’ drive at the village of Leuchars – known for its annual RAF Leuchars Air Show – or 45 along Fife’s fab East Neuk area. For sightseeing and city shopping trips, Dundee and Perth are 40 minutes away by car. For those with littlies, the splendid Scotch seaside town of St Andrews is a short drive away: here they’ll be muchly amused by a trip to the aquarium, where they can gawp at watery critters like sharks, piranhas and seahorses, take a look at the twice-daily seal feeding and get involved in nice little nature safaris around its rockpools. Elsewhere, wildlife watchers would be well advised to head over to the cracking coastal spot of Tentsmuir National Nature Reserve; covering 50 square miles, the reserve’s forest is set among what was once sand dunes and moorland and visited by all sorts of coastal creatures, with many a migratory bird to be found around Morton Loch and the forest’s hidden mudflats.