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 ...
D’Etretat Golf Club – A Take Your Breath Away Spectacular Normandy Clifftop Setting.
Spectacular, stunning, dramatic, breath-taking and any other ‘take your breath away’ adjective is how you can only describe sensational D’Etretat Golf Club in the Normandy region of northern France.
This 18-hole layout is laid out on relatively flat land but some 50-metres high above chalk-coloured cliffs,
overlooking the Bay of Etretat and the English Channel. It’s around a 3-hour drive north-west of Paris and some two-hours driving east along the same coastline as the ...
Orkney Golf Club – Scottish Islands Golf AGlow Amid Fields Of Heather.
If you’re not Scottish born but consider yourself a serious golfer, then you’ve no doubt visited the Home of Golf nation.
And if you’ve played many of the Scottish golfing gems then you probably are keen to savour some other of the not so well-known Scottish golf courses.
So, with this thought in mind can I recommend extending your next Scottish golfing adventure by heading to the top of the Scottish mainland, and then take the short 90-minute ferry trip to the stunning Orkney Islands.
The ...
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 ...
Roganstown Hotel, Golf & Country Club – From A Family Farm To Irish Parkland Golfing Gem
Golf fans around the globe know that Ireland is famed for some of the best links courses on the planet.
Courses such as Royal Portrush, Royal County Down, Castlerock, Portstewart, Rosapenna, Enniscrone, Donegal, Portsalon and Ballyliffin in the north and north-west to the likes of Waterville, Ballybunnion, Dooks and Tralee in the south-west where there right there on the virtual front doorstep of Dublin is the likes of Portmarnock, Royal Dublin, The Island and then my favourite a little to the south, ...
Mull Of Kintyre – The Southern Tip Of Scotland
Mention Mull of Kintyre and first thoughts is the ex-Beatles Paul McCartney’s hit tune of the same name.
The Mull of Kintyre is located on the southern tip of Kintyre peninsula, and the most southerly point of Home of Golf nation.
The word ‘Mull’ is Gaelic and means a rounded hill, a summit, and a mountain that is bare of trees.
There is certainly no trees on this mostly windswept, rocky and very steep location, and certainly no sandy beach where a full Scottish pipe band could ...
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
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