Good morning welcome to Prestonpans train station, I'm going on a train trip, surprisingly enough,
today it's a short one out to North Berwick, it's only a short ride and there are some great
cafes, restaurants and some beautiful beaches to explore, fancy joining me welcome to RogVLOG.
here comes the train, and it's a ScotRail class 380, and the train is pretty deserted,
it's only a quick trip to North Berwick,
but there's some lovely East Lothian countryside to see on the way,
at this time of day, there are far fewer people going to North Berwick
than there are going in the other direction to Edinburgh,
I think North Berwick train station is so cute, only one platform and surrounded by greenery,
from the station it doesn't take long to get into town, we're going to cross the road
and then we're going to turn down into this ginnel and we'll be there in no time,
love some of these old buildings and cottages, North Berwick is about 30 miles east of Edinburgh,
so it's a quick 30 minutes on the train, once you get here there are two beautiful
beaches, plenty of coffee shops, restaurants and boutique shops and a fabulous harbour
today on this walking tour I'm going to show you the West Beach,
and the Harbour
and the East Beach, but first let's take a walk along the high street,
you can have Tea at Tiffany's, I'm sure if you ask nicely you could have breakfast at Tiffany's too,
a whole host of interesting shops, crafts, paintings, food,
this church behind me is Saint Andrew Blackadder, fantastic Blackadder, love it,
let's have a look at West Beach first and then I think it'll be time for a coffee,
oh that's glorious, that's glorious,
so over there we have the harbour,
and we'll be going there later, looking in the other direction, look at that's beautiful,
that way takes us right back down to the Firth of Forth, back into Edinburgh,
what an absolutely glorious day it is today,
oh a glorious lungful of salty sea air nothing quite as bracing as that is there,
all right it's time for coffee, and here in North Berwick there is a coffee shop called Steampunk,
yeah Steampunk, and with a name like that it would be absolute sacrilege not to give it a try,
just to warn us Steampunk is not on the high street,
and of course, they welcome dogs but they only serve coffee to humans,
good job I'm human then let's get in there,
Steampunk is rustic, and you can see everything from the
roasting of the beans to the making of the coffee,
wow, that was a really strong black americano just as I like it,
just opposite Steampunk, across the road is Saint Andrews Kirk,
or the ruins of Saint Andrews Kirk, well worth having a little walk around,
this was the original Saint Andrews church now superseded by the Blackadder one we saw earlier,
so time I think now to find something to eat,
I believe there's an incredibly good chip shop just down here, or there's Alandis Gelato,
but I do think I need something a bit more substantial first,
shall we try out the famous North Berwick Fry,
well I really fancy some chips and gravy, but they've run out of gravy,
so back up I asked for curry sauce, but they're out of curry sauce as well,
just have to make do with the chips,
look at the colour on those chips, those chips were sensational, even without the gravy
or the curry sauce, but not the healthiest of lunches, I'll admit, but I'm not worried,
I'm not guilty I've got a body combat class to teach later so I'll work them off
this is the North Berwick war memorial, right now we're gonna go and find the other beach,
ah I can see the sea, let's head down this pretty little street, I've been really lucky with the
weather today, but it looks like it's starting to cloud over, but hopefully, we'll get to see the
beach and the harbour before it starts to rain, fingers crossed, right here we go East Beach,
and as we sweep around you're going to catch a glimpse of Bass Rock right over
there in the distance, BassRock is the home to gannets and puffins and
loads of other sea birds, must get a ferry boat trip around Bass Rock sometime in the future,
well that black cloud came and went, and it's quite clear again,
so let's have a walk along the beach towards the harbour,
I'm not quite sure what this is it's like an enclosed
tidal pool with a wall going out to sea and then back in again, it's almost like a swimming pool,
but obviously, it's not a swimming pool, I'm gonna have a walk around,
up ahead there on the clifftop that's the Scottish Seabird Centre,
and they have webcams over on Bass Rock, so you can watch the puffins and the gannets,
I'm not gonna go there today, but that's probably worth a trip in the future, so I just asked the
local lady there and apparently, this is it's like a paddling area for children, so that there's
always water for them even when the tide goes out, so I really quite like that it's a great idea,
just past this obelisk, there's a restaurant and it's called
The Rocketeer Restaurant what a great name for a restaurant
there are two statues at the Scottish seabird
centre looking out over bass rock the first one is called The Watcher
and I particularly love the second one this Arctic Turn is absolutely beautiful,
and here it is the harbour, is not quite as big as I was expecting it to be,
I think it's actually smaller than Fisherrow Harbour,
it's very pretty though, let's go and have a look at the boats that do the trips over to Bass Rock,
this is from a company called Sula Boat Trips and this ship is called Sula 3.
well that's another harbour to add to my collection, can't believe I've lived here
for so long in Scotland and I've never actually been to North Berwick harbour,
I've been to North Berwick hundreds of times, but never to the harbour itself, it's lovely
well I've really enjoyed my little wander around North Berwick this afternoon, what a glorious day
for a walk by the seaside, thank you so much for watching RogVLOG,
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