Had an all too short visit to St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. St Andrews appears to be better known for golf and the Prince William-Kate Middleton romance, but it also houses a university and medical school (pre-clinical only) that punches well above its weight where research is concerned. It was a treat touring Falkland Palace as well as the small but remarkable Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History. Many thanks to Prof Matthew Holden for hosting us!

Falkland Palace

Exhibits at the Bell Pettigrew Museum

Lots of mammal feet bones at the Bell Pettigrew Museum

Liver flukes

Old microscopes at the Bell Pettigrew museum

Stuffed mailed mole at the Bell Pettigrew museum

With our host at Falkland Palace, Fife, where we heard much about Mary Queen of Scots.