Our breakfast at Craighall was really good, also. It included, besides the normal fare, haggis, which was a new experience. Upon leaving Craighall, we walked through Blairgowrie, the cute town nearby. There wasn’t too much to see, so we went on to the town Dunkeld, which is owned by the Scottish historic trust. We saw their amazing cathedral, which is still the parish church. Christians have been worshiping there since the 6th century. However, the main nave was left to ruin in the Reformation, so it is in a state of disrepair. We did find a gravestone listing Jane Beveridge—the Beveridges were from this area.
We left Dunkeld and started heading towards St. Andrews, and stopped off at the medieval chapel of St. Athanase. It was extensively modified by the Victorians, but the altar area was still original—it was begun in 1187. We finally made it to St. Andrews and checked into our hotel. It was a hot day in St. Andrews, reaching about 75. The dinner provided by the conference was quite good, and afterwards we attended a concert in Holy Trinity church of renaissance and baroque choral music and some organ interludes, which was quite nice.
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