Posts in Category: Europe
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Maltese Food & Drink – A Pleasant Surprise
This is my second post from a recent six day sojourn to the country of Malta with Adventures Abroad led by veteran guide and friend Victor Romagnoli. In the first post I explained why Alison and I chose Malta as our first international destination since full vaccination allowed travel outside Canada for the first time in […]
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Malta with Adventures Abroad – An Introduction
It’s been seventeen months since we said au revoir to our friend and Adventures Abroad guide Victor Romagnoli at the airport in Belize, little thinking or knowing that the world of travel was about to change irrevocably. Like most of the people who travel with Adventures Abroad, Alison and I have an innate desire to experience the […]
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Frankfurt – Suggestions for a Layover
Frankfurt is one of the busiest airports in Europe and a place you might find yourself having to overnight, especially if your final destination is one of the smaller airports. This is the situation Alison and I found ourselves in as we made our way from Nova Scotia to Malta. Technically we could have done […]
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K Club – Incredible Golf, Incredible Luxury
This is my final post from last September’s golf trip to Ireland. We started off playing the out of this world Old Head of Kinsale in absolutely perfect conditions and we will be finishing at Ireland’s most luxurious golf resort, the legendary K Club in Kildare, not far from Dublin. During our stay we will […]
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Doonbeg – Playing Trump’s Irish Fantasy
This is my fifth review of golf courses in southwest Ireland based on a trip there in September 2019 with Barry McGuigan’s former company Golf NI. We started out with the fabulous Old Head of Kinsale followed by Arnold Palmer’s magnificent course at Tralee. Unfortunately at our third course, Waterville the weather was so bad […]
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Lahinch – Playing the World’s Craziest Par Three
This is my fourth post from last fall’s amazing golf trip to southwest Ireland with Golf Travel NI which unfortunately doesn’t exist as of right now. We did three trips with them and enjoyed them all immensely. Hopefully owner Barry McGuigan will have his new venture up and running for our next trip. We have […]
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Ballybunion – Why Tom Watson Loves It
This the third post from last fall’s amazing golf trip to southwest Ireland with Barry McGuigan’s Golf Travel NI. The first post featured the one and only Old Head of Kinsale and the second, Arnold Palmer’s Irish masterpiece, Tralee. In between we played Waterville, but the weather was so nasty that I couldn’t get a […]
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Tralee – Arnie’s Irish Coastal Masterpiece
Tralee Golf Club was the third of eight courses I and a group of friends played in Ireland in a trip arranged through our friend Barry McGuigan of Golf Travel NI. The first course was the magnificent and frankly on this trip, incomparable Old Head which I described hole by hole in this post. The […]
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Old Head – Hole by Hole in Golfing Heaven
What happens when you combine one of the most beautiful pieces of property in all Ireland steeped in over 3,000 years of history with eighteen holes of golf? You get what, for the avid golfer, is nothing short of heaven on earth. There are not enough superlatives to describe the Old Head Golf Links located […]