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  • In the middle of August there's also the Pittenweem arts festival in the East Neuk of Fife.

    The insider's guide to free arts 2011

  • After Crail, the A917 hugs the east coast, traveling through the East Neuk of Fife, where one finds a string of ancient fishing villages from Anstruther, famous for its fish and chips; Pittenweem, known for its annual arts-and-crafts festival; and St. Monans, whose church, the Auld Kirk, has a sailing ship suspended from the ceiling, a nod to its maritime past.

    Drives That Leave the City Behind 2011

  • In the middle of August there's also the Pittenweem arts festival in the East Neuk of Fife.

    The insider's guide to free arts 2011

  • Every year in the picturesque fishing village in Fife's East Neuk, homes and outbuildings become temporary galleries, and this year visitors will be able to sample the more luxurious elements of the locavore Fife diet – cullen skink a smoked haddock soup, mussels, prawns and smoked salmon – at Trotter's as-yet-unnamed restaurant.

    Pop-up restaurants: here today, gone tomorrow 2011

  • I have already mentioned a tract of waste, boggy ground, lying between the Tower on the Moor and Bracken Wood, formerly the haunt of wild fowl, and still called “The Bogs Neuk.”

    Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

  • Indeed, she rather gave the impression that she had never had one, but had simply risen from the foam, probably somewhere just off the East Neuk of Fife.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • When he gained the foot of Candlemakers Row, a crescent of tall, old houses that curved upward around the lower end of Greyfriars kirkyard, water poured upon him from the heavy timbered gallery of the Cunzie Neuk, once the royal mint.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • Neuk, and on the stairs that descended from it to the steep and curving row.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • It was half-past three o'clock when a tiny, wizened face popped out of one of the rude little windows in the decayed Cunzie Neuk at the bottom of Candlemakers Row.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • Neuk, the crippled laddie could see only the shadowy tombs and the long gray wall of the two kirks, through the sunny haze.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

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