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
On ...
Whiting Bay Golf Club – Three Centuries Of Isle of Arran Golf
The late 1890s was a great time for the birth of golf on the Scotland island of Arran.
Arran remarkably boasts six golf courses founded within 11 years of each other, and up to the dawn of the 20th century.
They include – Lamlash (1889), the 9-hole Corrie (1892), Whiting Bay (1895), Shiskine (1896), Brodick (1897) and the 9-hole Machrie Bay (1900).
Six years later in 1906 the six clubs got together to form the Arran Golfers Association.
Our first introduction to golf in Arran was visiting The ...
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 ...
