Golf De La Bresse – Let The ‘Rooster’ In Your Game Crow.
The quintessential French town Bourg-en-Bresse lies in the eastern region of the country, north-east of Lyon and about a 100 kilometres west of Geneva in neighbouring Switzerland.
The town is known worldwide not for its golf but its poultry – Poulet de Bresse or Chicken of Bresse.
France has long enjoyed a strong association with the rooster. It’s one of the national emblems of France, the Coq Gaulois (the Gallic Rooster) decorated French flags during the Revolution. It is also the ...
Christmas 2023 – Sights & Sounds Of Sainte Maxime, France
Christmas/New Year greetings from Sainte Maxime (pronounced ‘Maksim’), located here on the Mediterranean Sea in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in Southeastern France.
We’re located in the French Riviera (Côte d’Azur), 90 km (56 mi) south-west from Nice and 130 km (81 mi) north-east from Marseille, and about a 20/30 minute drive from Saint Tropez or about 15-minutes in catching the ferry the runs between both towns.
Sainte Maxime boasts a population of ...
Doing It Tough On Tour – Visiting Lochranza Distillery & Visitor Centre.
It was a great way to celebrate one’s birthday – visiting the Lochranza Distillery & Visitor Centre on the Isle of Arran.
The centre, and open 7 days a week, is owned by the award winning Isle of Arran Distillers Ltd, is situated in the beautiful village of Lochranza at the north end of the Isle of Arran.
We had arrived on Arran a few days earlier and enjoyed playing golf at Whiting Bay and Shiskine golf clubs, so what a wonderful offical last stop before boading the ferry and returning ...
It’s Christmas Day, The Golf Club Is Closed But You Still Had To Wait Ages To Tee-Up
I was looking at some of the latest golf-related stories the other day when I came across this article: ‘Should You Play Golf on Christmas Day?”
It quickly took me back decades when my brother, Steve and I used to play golf on Christmas Day, and in those years when we were first getting into the deep end in playing golf.
We grew-up in the lower North Shore region of Sydney. Our father, Terry, was the first in the family to play golf. He joined the 9-hole Castlecove Country Club course, ...
Sainte-Mère-Église – Visiting The First Town To Be Liberated On D-Day.
Sainte-Mere-Eglise is a lovely French village located around 12 kilometres straight inland from the famed D-Day beaches at Normandy.
Some 80-years ago, Sainte-Mere-Eglise and its surroundings was a strategic area along the national road connecting Cherbourg to Paris, at a key road junction between five departmental roads.
Early on the morning of June 6th, 1944 Saint-Mere-Eglise would become the first town in Europe to be liberated from more than four years of German occupation.
Welcome to Saint-Mere-Eglise
On ...
Arran – A First Visit To This Unique Scottish Isle.
A first visit to the isle of Arran.
Yes, after many visits to Kintyre and the Outer Herbrides we are heading to Arran, an island off the west coast of Scotland.
It is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh-largest Scottish island, at 432 square kilometres (167 sq mi) and located just 90-minutes by ferry from the mainland at Ardrossan to Brodick.
Though culturally and physically similar to the Hebrides, it is separated from them by the Kintyre peninsula and where we were headed after ...
A Wee Dram At The ‘Am Politican’ On The Isle Of Eriskay
One of the most well known, and also somewhat amusing events in the recent history of the Western Isles was the wreck of the SS Politician on the 5th February 1941.
It was the story used by Compton Mackenzie for his book Whisky Galore, and later for the Ealing Studio in turning the story in a hit-winning comedy by the same name.
The SS Politician was an 8000-tonne cargo ship which had left Liverpool laden with amongst other things 260,000 bottles of whisky, bound for Kingston in Jamaica and New Orleans. ...
