Tour Scotland Winter 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of a road trip drive on Christmas Eve Morning, December 24th, 2023 to the old tidal bathing pool on the coast of the fishing village of Cellardyke on ancestry visit to the coast of the East Neuk of Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. I spent many happy days here as a child growing up in Cellardyke, The pools contain water even if the tide is out. The swimming pool was once known as The Cardinal's Steps after Cardinal Beaton of St Andrews who had a seaside residence here in the 16th century. It was developed into a formal bathing pool in the 1930s by local volunteers. The sea air would be rather bracing, the water not much warmer than freezing and the chance of swallowing a lungful of salty seawater extremely high. Long before heated and indoor swimming pools arrived, generations of hardy Scots learned to swim in Scotland’s coastal tidal pools. Interest these in days tidal pools is thought to have been sparked both by a resurgence in interest in wild swimming in Scotland, plus a wave of nostalgia for a simpler age when summer holidays were spent closer to home. Tidal pools cropped up all around the Scottish coast and waters, including in Dumfries and Galloway. The UK’s most northerly pool, in Scalloway in Shetland, was bulldozed in 1993 to make way for a car park. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip
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