Going for Golf

Le Paradis

Was ever a golf course more appropriately named than Paradis Golf Course? At the south-western tip of the tropical island of Mauritius, this must surely rank among the most beautiful 18 holes anywhere in the world.

The almost impossibly…

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Bovey Castle

Think of Dartmoor and images of wild moorland, rock outcrops, granite tors and scary-eyed escaped convicts wielding axes spring readily to mind. It is a place of myth, beauty, fact and fiction.

Fans of Sherlock Holmes, for example, will be…

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Thracian Cliffs

Spectacular is a word that’s often overused when describing a golfing venue. While many layouts are memorable for one reason or another, all too often you can be left disappointed by a visit to a course that fails to live…

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Palmeraie Golf Palace

OK, I will admit it, I am a shopaholic. I can’t resist a bargain, and have been known to out-shop girlies I have travelled with on several trips. My favourite sort of shopping involves lots of haggling. So for me,…

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Souillac Golf & Country Club

Historians know the Dordogne-Correze-Lot area of southern central France for the Hundred Years War of the 14th and 15th centuries. On the face of it this was an extra-time battle between the French and English, but the Thomas Levets of…

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