Midweek hike to Balwearie Castle in the Kingdom of Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland

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This morning Mrs T and I set off on a hike.

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Although it did not start out that way, it was just a walk on the pavement!

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We walked down the road by the park it was on our right side... and then it happened!

Yes can you believe it, the wildlife appeared!

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Okay so it was a standing stag, actually their next door neighbours had some absolute stoaters of flowers!

Look at this one, gorgeous no?

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It turns out that it is an Inula magnifica or the giant fleabane and it is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family Asteraceae at least that is what I found out with my wiki research.

Makes sense as it did remind me of a sunflower, the magnifica handle is pretty spot on as I think it is magnificent.

Speaking of magnificent, just look how beautiful and magnificent our local Beveridge Park is looking in the summer sun!

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We were not going there today, no sireee we were carrying on straight down the road, towards the golf course actually...

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One thing that Mrs T loves about the UK is that in towns, we use our green spaces so well, also the fact that we actually have green spaces.

Okay so now we are going off road! We zip past the golf course, and then it's ...

Decision Time

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Normally we take the right trail and either go to the waterfalls, the park or Raith Lake.

Would today be the day to be different?

Can you see the white sign that says Auchertool Walk?

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experience - engage - enjoy

What great words are on the bottom of the sign, and it is how I like to participate in life and now also in Hive!

How about you? Do you like to experience - engage - enjoy?

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There underneath the Walk in Auchertool Walk is a castle symbol and Balwearie Castile beside it.

That would be our wee walk today and judging from the sign we should be looking for something like this 👇...

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So with the engrained on our minds, off we set in the glorious sunshine!

According to the wee map,that means turning the corner.

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Over the stream and up the hill...

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Hill or was it hills...

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How about those clouds @deraaa , are they fluffy enough?

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I do love me some pretty flowers. In the background is a field we often walk past which has horses, I can't see any at the moment!

Up Up Up We Go!

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Standing taking pictures of trees and hills was all well and dandy but it was not getting us any closer to our destination of Balwearie Castle.

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You don't need to walk far to see the change in scenery. I love how all the stone dykes mostly survive. Do you know in Scotland we call a stone wall like that a dyke, but in England a dyke is the ditch.

Do you know the crop that is in the field?

Well it is not ripe yet, but it is wheat.

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When it is all ripe and ready to harvest, it will be quite the colourful sight.

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Gives us an excuse to go back at harvest time!

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Decision time Round 2!

We had been walking when we had a choice to make. The path we were coming up vertically joined one that was running horizontally.

So should we turn right?

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I looked at our photo of the sign and the red trail to Balwearie seemed to keep left and hugged the golf course.

Well we had not seen the gold course since we started walking, now we had doubts about the accuracy of said sign!

This was the trail to the left ...

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As we allegedly should have been hugging the golf course to the left I decided we should take the left road.

Was this the gateway to Balwearie Castle?

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I was getting some good vibes!

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There was no turning back for us now!

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I really felt we were on track as there seemed to midges all around us, the wee buggers!

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We have had quite a lot of rain recently which I reckoned had made for perfect breeding conditions for the Scottish mosquito aka the dreeded midgie!

But then I saw it ....

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We were back at the golf course, so maybe the sign was right after all.

But look at the bloody big water patch on the golf hole! That is the breeding ground for the bloody midgies.

The hole was on the right side of the track.

Meanwhile do an about turn!

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To the left of the track we were standing on was more golf holes.

It seems the sign was spot on after all.

The castle must be just up ahead!

Okay let's go! Said I rather enthusiastically....

I had seen some stone ruins through the trees...

OH FLUFF

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That was not Balwearie Castle! I have no idea what it is, some old church by the looks of it!

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This concludes Midweek hike to Balwearie Castle in the Kingdom of Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland and is my post for this week's #wednesdaywalk challenge hosted by @tattoodjay in collaboration with #makemesmile hosted by @elizacheng.

Come back for the next episode as we continue on wth our quest to find Balwearie Castle...

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!

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All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated.
@tengolotodo July 12th 2023

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What a beautiful Scotland and I see you were having a great time Tito Ed. I so love the greenery and the scenic views. Happy Wednesday Walk!
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Salamuch CJ, yeah you forget how green and beautiful Scotland is, especially in summer!

It was a fun walk today, and great I walked and posted about it on the same day!

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Those clouds are really fluffy! Very! And that field! I could play there for hours!!!!! Say, did you by chance count your steps?

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I always count my steps, well Fitbitch does.

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That’s really the name of the app😅?

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So I'm guessing the ruins you took pictures of are the old castle? What a beautiful place for a walk, looks wonderful.

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I don't what the house with the ruined wall was. It was not the castle, that will be today.

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Such a nice walk you have there and that church looks really like a castle. I can feel the heat of the sun by looking at your photos. The yellow flower, I thought it was a sunflower whose petals were starting to fall haha...

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It is a beautiful walk, although it was muddy and first time for ages when walking I got dirty shoes!
The yellow flower hehe it did remind of a sunflower too...

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Omg, what a beautiful place to have a walk. Loving all the sceneries on the way especially in the gulf course. I feel like rolling on the ground just seeing it's green green grass (◍•ᴗ•◍), hahaha. Do you think they will allow me to roll in there like a hotdog ╮(^▽^)╭

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Hehe the golf course is fun to walk beside as yes there is a lot of green short grass to roll around in!
You should so totally come and do it Ruffa!

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A beautiful walk
experience engage enjoy
I like that concept and seeing lots of your comments as I visit posts today you sure have been engaging 👍😎

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Thanks Jay, I thought the tag line of experience engage enjoy was perfect for Hive!

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What a nice walk. But seriously? you didn't show us the Balwearie Castle, lol. But did you at least get there or do I have to wait for the next episode to find out? 😉😆

Scottish mosquito, hehe. I don't know how annoying they are, but I tell you mosquitoes here are unbearable.

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hehe hopefully you will find out today Super Eli, pero yes we found it!

Yeah the midges are vicious, more so on the West coast and bite you nonstop, the difference is they don't carry malaria and are fluffing tiny!

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Mosquitoes do not transmit malaria usually here, except in the Amazon jungle, especially near the Brazilian border. And the smaller ones we call them in Spanish jejĂŠn, there are many of those on the coast, and at sunset, at certain times of the year they can be an invasion.

I look forward to the continuation of the adventure 🌀

Have a magic day, Super Ed!

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That looks like a great walk and you had some super weather too. Hopefully you will find the castle soon! lol

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We just managed to beat the rain tbh Steve!

We did find the castle in the end lol

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Nice walk - pity about the castle !
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Yeah we did find it, but in an overgrown field and me in shorts was not going through it to see it lol
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