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Morocco with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I are decompressing at the Eden Andalou resort just outside of Marrakech after a hectic and very exciting 17 day tour of Morocco with Adventures Abroad. As with all our Adventures Abroad trips I will start off with an overview post which I hope will give the reader a fair assessment of whether […]
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Banff Springs GC Hole-by-Hole
Stanley Thompson is unquestionably Canada’s most revered golf architect. He is to Canada what Old Tom Morris is to Scotland and Donald Ross to United States, and strangely enough both of them have a connection to Banff. Among the 175 or so courses Thompson is credited with nine are in Canadian National Parks of which […]
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Fredericton – The Maritimes Newest Golf Destination
Canada’s Maritime provinces have, in recent years, risen to the top of the list of must visit golf destinations in Canada. First it was Prince Edward Island, which promoted itself as Canada’s top golf vacation spot with courses like The Links at Crowbush Cove, the two great courses at Brudenell and a number in the […]
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Links of GlenEagles Hole-by-Hole
This will be my third hole-by-hole post from a recent trip to Alberta. The first two were from the Links and Old courses at Wolf Creek, both in the SCORE Golf Top 100. In this post Alison and I will play The Links of GlenEagles in Cochrane, just to the west of Calgary. This is […]
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Wolf Creek Old Course – Hole-by-Hole
In late August 2025 Alison and I embarked on a mini-golf tour of Alberta which started with the Wolf Creek Links course just outside of Ponoka. As I explained in my hole-by-hole post, avoiding the bunkers at all costs is the only way to score well on this Rod Whitman layout that is quite wide […]
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Wolf Creek Links Course – Hole-by-Hole
Wolf Creek Golf Resort, just outside Ponoka, Alberta and about 30 minutes north of Red Deer, is a 36 hole destination with two completely different courses designed by Rod Whitman, the same architect behind Cabot Links, the first true links course in Canada and currently #3 on the SCORE Golf Top 100. Years before Mr. […]
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Forges du Saint-Maurice NHS
This is my fourth and final post from a recent trip to Quebec to visit lesser known, but important National Historic Sites administered by Parks Canada. The three previous posts featured Grosse Ile, Chateau Saint-Louis and Fort Levis No. 1. In this post I’ll move away from the Quebec City area to Trois-Rivières some 130 […]
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Fort Levis No. 1 – Beware the Americans
This is the third of four posts I am writing about lesser known National Historic Sites in Quebec. The first featured Grosse Ile and the Irish Memorial while the second focused on the remains of Chateau Saint-Louis underneath Dufferin Terrace in Quebec City. In this one I’ll cross the St. Lawrence River and visit Fort […]
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Chateau Saint-Louis NHS – History Beneath Your Feet
This is the second of four posts I am writing on lesser known, but extremely important National Historic Sites in the Quebec City area. In the first post I visited Grosse Ile and the Irish Memorial NHS and learned about the 4 million + immigrants who first set foot on Canadian soil there, including my […]
From the road
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April 20th, 2023
I’ve had a bad case of writer’s block since getting back from Southeast Asia, but I did finish this post on the fan… https://t.co/HoJjP4jeha
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April 12th, 2023
One of the main reasons to visit the Galapagos is to see the giant tortoises. This latest post explains where you c… https://t.co/mQ8PWha8j3
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April 11th, 2023
Spring is very late this year so it’s nice to see the crocuses finally show up. https://t.co/7HD6wvsEJ6
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April 9th, 2023
Sunday morning is a good time to reflect back on another Sunday in Reading, England which I wrote about here:… https://t.co/EJ4Is2NSqz