Showing posts with label Beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beach. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Beach Golf in Great Yarmouth

There's a crazy golf course on the beach in Great Yarmouth.


Beach Crazy Golf in Great Yarmouth. Photo by Christopher Gottfried, June 2021

My brother Christopher found a minigolf course on the beach in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on his visit to the seaside resort yesterday!

Beach Crazy Golf in Great Yarmouth. Photo by Christopher Gottfried, June 2021

Great Yarmouth was one of the first places we visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and we've been back a number of times, although not since July 2016! It'll be fun to revisit and see what else is new there.

With Christopher's discovery of the Great Yarmouth Beach Golf course it brings the grand total of miniature golf courses visited by members of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour to 992 since September 2006! 

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Crazy Golf on Southsea Beach

There are plans for a new Crazy Golf course on Southsea Beach.


There are plans for a new Crazy Golf course on Southsea Beach

A new Crazy Golf course is planned to open at Southsea Beach in Hampshire.

The minigolf layout has been proposed by South Parade Pier and would be located on the shingle beach to the west of the pier.

Visit the South Parade Pier website for more information.


Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour began in Southsea back in 2006 and we've played a number of miniature golf courses there over the years. One of those courses was a 12-hole Swedish Felt layout on South Parade Pier in 2010. That course can now be played on Southend Pier!

It'll be nice to get back down to visit again in the future.

Friday, July 31, 2020

Porthcawl

Ah to be at the seaside on a day like today.


Looking through my photos from last year I spotted this lovely view of the beach in Porthcawl, Wales.

Porthcawl beach

I can't wait to be able to head back out on our travels and visit the coast.

Putting Green in Griffin Park, Porthcawl
It was slightly outside of the season so I couldn't have a game on the Putting Green in Griffin Park

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines at Coney Beach in Porthcawl
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines at Coney Beach

7D Cinema at Coney Beach in Porthcawl
What are the 7 Dimensions?

Monday, April 02, 2018

What a postcard!

A look at a Blackpool beach scene in 1975.


We bought this great old postcard from a car boot sale yesterday. It was just 10p. What a scene.

Colourmaster International postcard showing Central Beach and Tower, Blackpool. PT18795 by Photo Precision Limited, St Ives, Huntingdon
Look at that sunburn!

We've been to Blackpool a fair few times over the years, but we've never seen the beach anything like that. Although it was sunburn weather on my visit to nearby St Annes on Sea last year.

Colourmaster International postcard showing Central Beach and Tower, Blackpool. PT18795 by Photo Precision Limited, St Ives, Huntingdon
The card has a nice special postmark on it with a list of the resorts that make up the 'Happy Holiday Coast'

We'll be heading back to Blackpool soon as we've heard there's an Adventure Golf course up the Blackpool Tower!

Related blog posts:
- Blackpool
- Postcards

Thursday, December 08, 2016

A beachy bench

Looking through our photo archives for a blog post about Felixstowe Pier I noticed this great snap of a bench that had been somewhat swamped by the beach.

The seafront bench in Felixstowe as it was on the 15th December 2013
The seafront bench in Felixstowe as it was on the 15th December 2013

It may be of interest to the Dull Men's Club and the Park Bench Appreciation Society...

Related blog posts:
- Felixstowe
- Dull Men's Club
- Park Bench Appreciation Society

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Getting sharked

While we were in Nottingham for the Midlands Invitational Minigolf Tournament we made sure to go along to The Beach in the city centre after a tip-off from our friend and rival Jam Trubridge. It was well worth a visit. As well as picking up some great postcards and an interesting amusements token for my collections I also got up close to a BIG shark!

Photo of the shark at Nottingham Beach
Sharked

Check out the Nottingham Beach website for more info.

On our travels to over 650 courses we've spotted a lot of minigolf sharks too!

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Friday, October 10, 2014

Mini Golf in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote

Crazy Golf course spotted in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, Spain.

My sister-in-law Jo was recently on holiday in Lanzarote and spotted this coulourful Mini Golf course by the beach in Puerto del Carmen.

Crazy Golf in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote

Crazy Golf in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, Spain

Miniature Golf in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, Spain


Check out MiniatureGolfer.com's list of Minigolf courses in Spain.

Spain is also one of the newest members of the World Minigolf Sport Federation (WMF).

Related blog posts:
- Jo Tubby
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Monday, May 19, 2014

Award Bathing Beach

Award it what?

Directions to an "AWARD BATHING BEACH" in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey

On our recent trip to Sheerness (seaside #183 visited) on the Isle of Sheppey (island #9 we've been to) we spotted this incredibly odd bit of signage for an "Award Bathing Beach" on the seafront.

What's one of them then!?