Went to Anstruther last night (a small fishing village south of St Andrews, which is very touristy in the summer) for some fish and chips, and wondered if they'd even be open due to lack of demand. But huge queues at all three chip shops down beside the harbour, even at 7.30pm
Of course, social distancing partly responsible for the queues, but even at 8pm still had to wait half an hour in the queue for takeaway.
Luckily I wasn't the one queuing, and for the first time in twenty years found a use for the three parking spaces beside the harbour marked 'taxi'.
Yes, I know I wasn't working, and I'm normally the one complaining about the public parking on taxi ranks, but I've never actually worked out the purpose of these spaces, and have never actually seen a taxi using them as a rank
Maybe they're just there so drivers can go and queue for fish and chips
St Andrews similar in some ways, and passed the ice cream shop the other night where there are always queues on summer evenings, and still a good queue at about 9pm
But still very little in the way of taxi business, so I'm guessing people staying away aren't travelling very far, and they're not going very far once they get there.
'Staycations', I think they're called - "a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions"
Some pubs and restaurants here opened this week, but by no means all of them, and big hotels still closed.