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Austria - Put the skis away
Along with Wimbledon, the Tour de France, the Monaco Grand Prix and the British Open, Kitzbühel’s Downhill, the famous Hahnenkamm, two miles of glittering ice cliff skied by the aces at close on 90mph, rates among the world’s top 10…
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Oubaai - Ernie’s Garden plot
The magnificent Ernie Els design at Oubaai can now compete on a level footing with other golf resorts in the Garden Route with the opening of a new luxury hotel on what was previously just a golf estate for homeowners…
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Bulgaria’s Black Sea beauties
Even those with A-level geography might not know the precise location of Bulgaria. Well, it’s just to the south of Romania, to the north of Greece and Turkey, to the east of Serbia and Macedonia and to the west of…
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It’s all downhill after Austria
Stop anyone over the age of 40 in a British street and ask for the name of a world ski racer, any name, and chances are the answer will be “Franz Klammer”.
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Austria - the hills are alive
Vienna has been in love with many things, but golf is relatively new. Getting in the swing these days are more than 40 courses, all within a comfortable car journey of the greatest transport hub of central and eastern Europe.
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The heights of luxury
My last visit to the Sinai Peninsula ended with a taxi breaking down en route to the airport, leaving me stranded at the side of a road in the middle of the desert praying for a camel caravan to materialise…
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Mazagan - here’s looking at you kid
The rock-strewn service road which threads a twisting path to El Jadida, a small, ancient settlement perched on Morocco's north coast, is a misleading introduction to what awaits us. But there are clues.
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Legend - by name and nature
When the video of Padraig Harrington playing the extreme 19th golf hole at Legend Golf & Safari Resort was uploaded to YouTube it was viewed more than one million times in just a few days. The planet’s golfing public, it…
