Spring Drive Through Lower Largo East Neuk Of Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring morning road trip drive, with Scottish music, through Lower Largo on visit to the East Neuk of Fife. Lower Largo or Seatown of Largo is a village in Fife, situated on Largo Bay on the north side of the Firth of Forth. Largo viaduct which you can see at the end of the video was built in 1857 with four masonry arches on the North British Railway line to St Andrews, the line closed in 1964. The viaduct makes a strong impression in the small village. An ancient fishing village, Lower Largo has gained fame as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk, born in 1676, the son of a shoemaker and tanner in Lower Largo. Selkirk was an unruly youth, and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession. One such expedition was on Cinque Ports, commanded by William Dampier. The ship called in for provisions at the Juan Fernández Islands, and Selkirk judged correctly that the craft was unseaworthy and asked to be left there. When he was eventually rescued by follow on English privateer Woodes Rogers, Selkirk had become adept at hunting and making use of the resources that he found on the island. His story of survival was widely publicised after their return to England, becoming a source of inspiration for writer Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe. ( East Neuk tourism has been much reduced by the Coronavirus Pandemic but will gladly welcome visitors when it is safe to do so )
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