Posts in Category: Europe
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Diocletian’s Palace – A Guided Tour of this Ancient Wonder
In the last post I explained why we decided to visit Croatia and how we got to Split. This is the first full day of our trip to Dalmatia and I am looking forward to it with tremendous anticipation because we are going to visit Diocletian’s Palace, a place I have longed to see since […]
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Croatia – A Cursory Introduction to a Dalmatian Odyssey
It’s October 6, 2015 and Alison and I are about to embark on a two week trip to Croatia and in particular, to the province of Dalmatia. We have long heard from other travellers about the beauty of the Croatia and in particular the coast of Dalmatia which lies on the east side of the […]
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Ardglass -The Greatest Course You’ve Never Heard Of
It’s with a twinge of sadness I’m writing this post, because it is the last on my long anticipated Irish golf odyssey. These trips are like watching a speeding car come at you down a long flat highway – it seems to take forever to get there, but once it does it roars past in […]
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Royal County Down – Playing the # 1 Course on the Planet
Yesterday we played Rory McIlroy’s home course Holywood, just outside Belfast and afterwards we headed for the resort town of Newcastle, not far from the Irish border. It has a lovely location on the Irish Sea at the base of the Mourne Mountains, the highest in Northern Ireland, and the place where many of the […]
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Holywood Golf Club – Why You Must Play Rory’s Home Course
This is day 6 of the Irish golf trip with myself and seven friends from Maritime Canada and as Monty Python would say, “Now for something completely different”. We are headed for Holywood Golf Course in the Belfast suburb of Holywood (pronounced Hollywood and not holey-wood) which is the home course of sometime world number […]
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Royal Portrush Golf Club – Golf Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
Royal Portrush Golf Club is rated #8 in the world by Golf Digest. Golf Magazine rates it as only #13. Considering that there are over 34,000 golf courses in the world I don’t think I’m going to quibble with whether Golf or Golf Digest is correct as I and seven of my mates are about […]
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Portstewart Golf Club – A Must Play Course in Northern Ireland
Today is day four of the Irish golf trip I have undertaken with seven other friends and we are headed for Portstewart Golf Club which our driver Barry McGuigan assures us will be a real challenge. If the course is as nice as the drive is then we are in for a treat. It is a beautiful morning […]
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Castlerock Golf Club – Welcome to Golf in Northern Ireland
It’s a cool rainy morning in Dublin and the weather forecast is not good. There is a vortex of rainy weather swirling around the Irish Sea drenching pretty well all of Northern Ireland, where we are headed in less than hour. Our destination is Castlerock Golf Club and according to the route I’ve downloaded it’s […]
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Portmarnock Golf Club – A Tough Test of Irish Golf Outside of Dublin
Today is day two of the eight day Irish golf tour. Yesterday four of us played Royal Dublin and were suitably impressed. Today all eight of the group will take on Dublin’s other legendary course, Portmarnock Golf Club and we will use caddies for this adventure. Unfortunately the weather is not as cooperative as yesterday and […]