Fun Days Out
Your holiday property is the perfect base for day trips to local nature reserves, animal centres, adventure parks, museums, heritage sites, and sport centres.
Within five miles of your holiday home is the Birnie and Gaddon Lochs Nature Reserve, created from an old sand and gravel quarry. There are facilities for bird watching, walking and picnics. You can see otters, red squirrel, numerous water mammals and a wide range of birds from redshank, oyster catcher, lapwing, and water rail to name a few. www.snh.org.uk
In the same area, near Colessie, you will find the Fife Animal Park and Pet Centre, with a wide range of animals from ponies, to parrots, to zebras and birds of prey.
Birniefield, Colessie, Ladybank, Fife KY15 7UT. Tel 01337 831830
www.fifeanimalparkandpetcentre.com
The Scottish Deer and Raptor Centre is eight miles south of your holiday property. You can experience a close encounter with majestic birds of prey, set in amazing Scottish scenery. Bow of Fife, by Cupar. Tel 01250 874656 www.raptorworld.co.uk
MAD4X41T.COM is an off-road driving centre with 15 minutes of your holiday house. You can have an “extremely mad and totally wild off road experience” with groups, individuals and children welcome. Glentarkie, by Strathmiglo Tel 01337 860528 www.mad4x4it.com
Abernethy Round Tower is less than ten minutes drive from your holiday property. You can visit the 74 foot high, 11th Century, Irish Style round tower. Abernethy was the South Scotland Pictish Capital and the village museum depicts life from Pictish times to present. Open mid May to end September. www.museumofabernethy.co.uk
Take the A913 from your holiday home and you will be at Cupar Sports Centre in twenty minutes. It has a 25 metre pool, sports hall, squash courts, fitness suite and steam baths. Carlogie Road, Cupar. Tel 01334 412290
Cairnie Fruit Farm and Maze, Cupar, is only 20 minutes from your holiday cottage. You can pick your own fruit, explore the megamaze and children’s activities, or use the farm shop and café. Tel: 01334 655610 and www.cairniefruitfarm.co.uk
