Last week I flew over to St Andrews, Scotland to celebrate Flicky's 21st birthday with her. Five days of fun with some of my kids is just the ticket when I'm missing home.
If you've never visited St Andrews, or Scotland for that matter, it's absolutely beautiful with tons of history but also quite bleak and very cold. I've put together a few photo collages from the weekend.
There was lots of food and drink and a fab spa day at the Fairmont resort.
My son, Joe and his partner Katie joined us and, as it was their first visit to St Andrews, we did the touristy bit showing them around the town.
The University
The Castle...
...don't you love a loo with a view? (centre pic below)
and crawling through the tunnels underneath the castle was a lot of laughs too, though I think there were moments when we were laughing just so we didn't cry.
The Cathedral
Love this selfie of us all at the top of the Cathedral Tower.
The Gin Tour
We also visited the local brewery and gin & whisky distillery, Eden Mill, where we may or may not have sampled four G&Ts each as part of the Gin Tour.
If you're a gin girl (or boy) I highly recommend the gin tour. All the Eden Mill gins are abs delish, the guys at the Eden Mill were super friendly and I think you can tell from the pics we had a lot of fun there.
Eden Mill Gins
Original gin - citrus and seabuckthorn - forget the lime slice add some pink grapefruit
Love gin - tastes of berries and citrus - try it with raspberries
Oak gin - tastes of whisky - great with an orange slice
Golf gin - made using hickory (golf club wood)
Hop gin - tastes of beer - add a sizzling chilli slice
And on Sunday, Flicky's actual 21st birthday, there was even a birthday cake...
...with candles that Rob and Colin, Flicky's two housemates helped her blow out.
It was over all too soon but I was almost glad to get back to slightly warmer weather on the US east coast and slightly pained in the knowledge it'll soon be just as cold or colder here too.
Happy 21st Birthday Flicky xxx
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