Posts in Category: Europe
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Royal Birkdale Hole by Hole
This is my fifth hole by hole post from our fall 2024 trip to England’s Golf Coast organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. Yesterday we played what has been my favourite course so far, Formby,which has a completely different look than most links courses. Today we will tackle our third Open venue, Royal Birkdale which has […]
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Formby Golf Club – Hole by Hole
This is my fifth post from the fall 2024 trip to England’s Golf Coast organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. In the last post I took a day off from golf and spent the time exploring Liverpool’s wonderful waterfront. Today we will return to the links at a course that has never hosted The Open, but […]
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Liverpool Waterfront – Walking Merseyside
It’s the middle of our fall 2024 golf trip to England’s Golf Coast and after playing Wallasey, Royal Liverpool and Royal Lytham & St. Annes we have a scheduled day off. Most of the others are going on a Beatles’ tour, but I did that on my last trip to Liverpool with private guide Paul […]
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Royal Lytham & St. Annes – Hole by Hole
This is my third post from a fall 2024 golf trip to northwest England organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. In the first post we struggled a bit with the up and down terrain at Wallasey, but all agreed that it is a fantastic course. Our second course was 13 time Open host Royal Liverpool which […]
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Royal Liverpool GC – Hole by Hole
This is my second post from a fall 2024 golf trip to northwest England organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. In the first post I gave a hole-by-hole description of the Wallasey Golf Club which was a terrific place to start. However, the main attraction in coming to this part of England was to play the […]
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Wallasey Golf Club – Hole by Hole
This is the first of six hole by hole descriptions of courses I and seven friends played on a recent trip to northwest England hosted by Platinum Golf Scotland. Two years ago we first used Platinum Golf to arrange a trip to northeast Scotland where we played six courses based out of Inverness and Aberdeen […]
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Vienna – A Whirlwind Tour
Recently I found myself with three extra days in Europe. I had just finished a Canadian chapter SATW meeting in Seville, Spain and in four days I was to meet Alison in Cyprus to begin an Adventures Abroad tour there with our friend Martin Charlton. I had ascertained that there were no direct flights […]
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Jerez – Where You’ll Learn to Love Sherry
This is my third post from the spring 2024 SATW Canadian Chapter meeting in Andalusia, Spain. In the first post I described a number of the sites associated with Christopher Columbus around the city of Huelva, notably La Rabida Monastery. In the second I extolled just a few of the many reasons to visit the […]
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Mount Pelion – Land of the Centaurs
This is the final post from Alison’s and my trip to Greece in 2023. We spent most of it on an Adventures Abroad trip from Istanbul to Ioaninna in northern Greece following the course of the ancient Roman road, Via Egnatia led by our friend Victor Romagnoli. After that we flew to Athens for a […]