The whole East Neuk of Fife is best treated as one trip. Crail, Anstruther, Pittenweem, and St Monans are each within ten minutes' drive of Elie and all share the same arrangement — a small harbour, a cluster of crowstepped stone houses, and a tradition of inshore fishing. Anstruther has a deserved reputation for the best fish and chips in Britain.
St Andrews, 20 minutes north, is the cathedral city and home of golf — a substantial half-day in itself for the cathedral ruins, the university, the Old Course, and the West Sands beach. The Fife Coastal Path connects all of these places on foot, and the bus 95 from Leven to St Andrews runs along the same route.
