Posts in Category: Europe
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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 […]
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Seville – Highlights from a Fabulous City
The 2024 SATW Canadian Chapter meeting was held in Seville, Spain and provided me with the opportunity to visit this wonderful country twice in six months. I had been in Caceres and other areas in the Extremadura in November, 2023 for the SATW Freelance Council meeting and came away with a fond appreciation of that […]
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Cyprus with Adventures Abroad
Cyprus is not a destination that is on the radar of most North American tourists, yet it’s wildly popular with Europeans, especially Brits and Germans. While they are primarily attracted by the beaches, great weather and the fantastic Cypriot cuisine there is much more to do in Cyprus than just laze in the sun on […]
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The Acropolis of Athens Without the Crowds
My last post from Greece featured the final days of the Via Egnatia tour led by our good friend Victor Romagnoli for Adventures Abroad. However, it was not the end of trip for Alison and me. We are going to spend a few days in Athens and then at Victor’s suggestion, head to the Pelion […]