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Meknes – Morocco’s Overlooked Imperial City
Morocco is an unusual country in that it has had four different capital cities over the course of its history. We’ve already visited the current capital Rabat on this Adventures Abroad Quintessential Tour of Morocco and found it to be a very quiet, green and clean contrast to the hustle and bustle of Casablanca. In […]
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Volubilis – Morocco’s Roman World Heritage Site
This is my fourth post from the recently completed Quintessential Morocco Tour by Adventures Abroad. The first post was an overview of the entire trip, explaining why Morocco is a great destination and why Adventures Abroad is a great choice to lead the way. The second post featured Casablanca and the last post the capital […]
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Rabat – Morocco’s Modern Capital
This is my third post on the recently completed Adventures Abroad Quintessential Morocco tour. In the first I gave an overview of the tour and Morocco as a desirable destination. In the second I featured the country’s largest city Casablanca with its amazing Hassan II mosque. In this post I’ll feature the capital city of […]
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Casablanca – Starting out in Morocco
This is my second post from the recently completed Adventures Abroad 15 day Essential Morocco tour, ably guided by Laura Carballo with assistance from George Alexander. The first post was an overview of the trip highlighting the reasons why Morocco is a great destination and why Adventures Abroad is the tour company that you should […]
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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 […]
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