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      <image:caption>Discover the resilience and reality of life for Fife’s fisherfolk One day vehicle and site tour: 9:00am to 5:00pm Break for lunch stop in St Andrews Falkland Palace(Photo stop), St Andrews (Town walking tour), Crail, Scottish Fisheries Museum (Anstruther), Pittenweem</image:caption>
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