James Tucker in Cov

Laura and I went to St Andrew's for an academic conference in September, staying in University halls and wandering around the town. It's a nice, very small place on the coast, accessable through a couple of miles of Scottish countryside from the train station. The train ride from Edinburgh was good, with views back to the city for half the trip. For the first couple days, we didn't get to see the main sights of the city, except glimpses down streets and over rooftops. Even with that, it would have been worth visiting, as the beach (seen in Chariots of Fire) and the famous golf course fed a nice quietish place with good fish and chips, pubs and an abundance of second-hand stores.
That the ruined cathedral, once the largest in Scotland, isn't even the most famous thing about the town is part of it's charm, as is the way in which it has now turned into a large park, with graves around the walls- the only burials inside them are from before the Reformation. Most of the missing stone has gone on to build the towns and university buildings; free, carefully-cut granite apparently being too big a temptation for the townsfolk.
You can spend a lot of time in St Andrew's without seeing the golf-course, oddly. It's quite close to the centre of town, and all, but aside from a row of dominating clubhouses and golf shops, there's not quite the industry around it that one might think. Of course, we were there for an academic conference, and there was no tournament on; I rather expect it's a bit busier at other times.