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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 […]
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Royal Dublin Golf Club – A Great Place to Start an Irish Golf Trip
This is the first in a series of posts on a guy’s golf trip to Ireland starting with the Royal Dublin Golf Club, but first some preliminaries. Why Ireland? The group of guys I have been traveling with for many years go on an annual golf trip to United States in conjunction with watching an […]
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Merrion Square – A Must Visit Location in Dublin. Here’s Why.
Join me in exploring Merrion Square later in this post, but first a few words on why I’m here in the first place. This is the second day of a guys golf trip to Ireland. Yesterday we flew overnight from Toronto and after checking in at The Conrad, to avoid any chance of jet lag, we […]
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Liberation Tours – My Choice For Canadian Military Tours
This is a link to the last in a series of twenty-seven articles I wrote describing a tour I took in April and May 2015 with Liberation Tours out of tiny Georgina. Ontario. The trip not only met the expectations of myself, my wife Alison and my sisters Anne and Kaye, but exceeded it by […]
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