City

Dunfermline was one of eight locations to be granted city status as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations earlier this year. That award paled into insignificance in comparison for it being the location of today's Ramblers walk. Or maybe not.

You see, it wasn't an official Ramblers walk. It wasn't on our published programme but just something put together by one of our members and circulated round the group by email. And it wasn't really a walk, more a day-trip, an outing, a meander around the town from the Mercat Cross to the Abbey and the church where Robert The Bruce (minus his heart) is buried, from there to the Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Pittencrieff Park, the town's museum and library and back through the park. Add in a couple of coffee and lunch stops and it was a grand day out..

We even passed the pub where Dunfermline Athletic FC was founded in 1885, but as a follower of Falkirk I didn't pay any attention to that. Wearing my navy blue specs and to paraphrase Dr Samuel Johnson, the finest thing about Dunfermline is the road out of it.

(Only joking, it's a fine place to visit. But these words didn't come from me, you understand?)