Midgetgolfbaan De Leeuwenkuil in the Netherlands

A look at the Midget Golf course in Muiderberg, Netherlands.

A lovely looking loop-di-loop on the course

Charter member of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour Christopher Gottfried has visited another minigolf course while on holiday, this time in the Netherlands.

While cycling he spotted the flags and sign for the 18-hole Midgetgolfbaan De Leeuwenkuil in Muiderberg.

You can find the 18-hole Midgetgolfbaan De Leeuwenkuil at Nienhuis Ruyskade 3, 1399 GR Muiderberg, Netherlands. The course opened in 1967! Visit the course website for more information.

Middle Hill and Labyrinth lanes on the 18-hole Eternit Miniature Golf course

Christopher has now visited 27 courses on his own branch of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. Emily and I have also visited eight of those courses, but 19 of the courses are from travels to other courses in the UK, Turkey, Majorca, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, France and Indonesia!

The combined total of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour is now at 909 courses visited!

Crabstix Adventure Golf course at Cromer Boating Lake in Norfolk

A visit to the new Crabstix Adventure Golf course at Cromer Boating Lake in Norfolk.

Charter member of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour Christopher Gottfried has visited the new Crabstix Adventure Golf course at Cromer Boating Lake in Norfolk.

The new 18-hole Adventure Golf course was built by the team at Castle Golf and replaced the old Crazy Golf course that had been at the Boating Lake site for the past 27 years.

We visited Cromer in July 2016 and enjoyed our time in the seaside resort. The old Crazy Golf course at the Boating Lake was the 687th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. We've now been to 887 courses since September 2006.

The Crazy Golf course at the Boating Lake as it looked in 2016

We're looking forward to a return visit to Cromer to play the new Crabstix Adventure Golf course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Visit the Crabstix Adventure Golf Facebook Page for more information.

Christopher has visited 26 courses on their own branch of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. Emily and I have also visited eight of those courses, but 18 of the courses are from travels to other courses in the UK, Turkey, Majorca, Italy, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany, France and Indonesia!

The combined total of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour is now at a mammoth 905 courses visited!

Related blog posts:
- Cromer
- Norfolk
- Minigolf in Norfolk
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Crazy Golf on Grass in Cromer, Norfolk

Jiggers Miniature Golf at Thorpeness Golf Club & Hotel

A look at the Jiggers Miniature Golf at Thorpeness Golf Club & Hotel in Suffolk.

Last May we played the Jiggers Miniature Golf course that had recently opened at Thorpeness Golf Club & Hotel in Suffolk. In March this year my brother, and Charter Member of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, Christopher spotted the course while on a wander round the area and sent over these snaps.

The branding at Jiggers has a nice Art Deco theme to it

Jiggers Miniature Golf is a 9-hole minigolf course on the banks of the Meare boating lake. It was nicely designed and a fun layout to play.

The windmill on the left and the house in the clouds on the right

The attention to detail on the course is brilliant, with miniature versions of the windmill and the 'House in the Clouds' just like the real things just a stone's throw from the course.

The real House in the Clouds

A view of the Jiggers Miniature Golf course and House in the Clouds obstacle

Visit the Thorpeness Golf Club & Hotel website for more information, opening times and prices.

The Jiggers Miniature Golf course at Thorpeness Golf Club & Hotel was the 479th played and 814th visited overall on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Christopher has visited a number of minigolf courses on their travels too:

1 Brighton - Crazy Golf

2 Paignton Pier - Crazy Golf

3 Herne Bay - Mini Golf

4 Great Yarmouth - Windmill Theatre Indoor Crazy Golf

5 Margate (Cliftonville) - Little Oasis Crazy Golf

6 Newquay - Mini Golf

7 Letoonia Golf Resort, Belek, Turkey - Minigolf

8 Mundesley - Adventure Island Golf

9 Ladram Bay - Crazy Golf

10 Majorca (Vista Alegre, Porto Cristo, Mallorca) - Minigolf

11 Sirmione, Lake Garda, Italy - Minigolf

12 Gorleston-on-Sea (Pop's Meadow) - Crazy Golf

13 Amsterdam - GlowGolf

14 Remich, Luxembourg - Eternit Miniature Golf

15 Nittel, Germany - Minigolf

16 Zeltingen-Rachtig, Germany - Beton Minigolf

17 Traben-Trarbach, Germany - Eternit Miniature Golf

18 Kobern-Gondorf, Germany - Abenteuergolf

19 Kobern-Gondorf, Germany - Eternit Miniature Golf

20 Bernkastel-Kues, Germany - Minigolf

21 Ville de Sète, France - Mini Golf - now a skatepark

22 Lac de la Cavayère, Carcassonne, France - Mini Golf - only open in July and August

23 Bali Mini Golf and Luwak Coffee Garden, Indonesia - Mini Golf

24 Alnwick (The Alnwick Garden) - Forgotten Garden Adventure Golf

25 Thorpeness (Thorpeness Golf Club & Hotel) - Jiggers Miniature Golf

Related blog posts:
- Jiggers Miniature Golf at Thorpeness Golf Club & Hotel
- Christopher Gottfried
- Guest Blogs

Monorails and Minigolf at Butlin's Minehead

A look back at the Monorails and Minigolf course at Butlin's Somerwest World holiday camp in Minehead.

My brother Christopher was recently looking through some old family photos and spotted this snap of us riding the monorail at Butlin's Minehead back in the early 90's.

Riding the Tango branded Monorail at Butlin's Minehead in the early 1990's

My family holidayed at the camp a number of times in the late 80's and early 90's and I've got brilliant memories of the monorail, funfair, laser tag and arcades there. It's little wonder that even now I'm such a big fan of the British seaside, monorails, crazy golf and video-games.

Emily and I also had one of our first holidays together at the camp in 2004 and we remember playing the Arnold Palmer Putting Course you can see in the postcard below. This card is from the time the camp was known as Butlin's Somerwest World from 1987 to 1999. Sadly we haven't got any photos of us from our pre-Crazy World of Minigolf Tour game on the course.

A Butlin's Holidays postcard of Somerwest World. Postally unused. Undated

While looking at the history of Butlin's for a feature in Picture Postcard Monthly to mark the 80th birthday of Butlin's in 2016 I found that the UK's first commercial monorail was opened at Butlin's Skegness in 1965! The Skegness holiday resort is the one remaining camp I haven't been to.

It's brilliant collecting old postcards of minigolf courses, monorails and holiday camps as they are superb pieces of social history, as well as bringing back some great memories.

Related blog posts:
- Butlin's
- Postcards

Link:
- Butlin's

Forgotten Garden Adventure Golf at The Alnwick Garden

A look at the Forgotten Garden Adventure Golf course in The Alnwick Garden at Alnwick Castle.

The Fogotten Garden Adventure Golf course has some huge obstacles and decorations

Charter member of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour Christopher Gottfried has added another course visit to his list as he recently spotted the Forgotten Garden Adventure Golf course in The Alnwick Garden while on a trip to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.

An oversized club, ball and spider at the miniature golf course

At least the signmaker didn't forget

A Tremor-sized worm!

Check out the Forgotten Garden Adventure Golf website for more details.

Some nice big toadstool obstacles on the course

We're looking forward to playing the Forgotten Garden Adventure Golf and a visit to The Alnwick Garden - they've got a Poison Garden there! Intriguing.

Alnwick Castle

Christopher Gottfried has now been to 24 minigolf courses on his part of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, including courses in Turkey, Spain, Italy, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany, France and Indonesia!

Link:
- The Alnwick Garden

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Bali Mini Golf in Indonesia

Photos from a course visit to Bali Mini Golf in Indonesia.

Charter member of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour Christopher Gottfried was recently on holiday in Bali, Indonesia and while there he swung by Bali Mini Golf and Luwak Coffee Garden!

Christopher at Bali Mini Golf

You can find minigolf courses - and interesting business combinations - around the world!

  

Since 2011 Christopher has now visited 23 courses on his own mini-Crazy World of Minigolf Tour! Details below:

1. Brighton - Crazy Golf
2. Paignton Pier - Crazy Golf
3. Herne Bay - Mini Golf
4. Great Yarmouth - Windmill Theatre Indoor Crazy Golf
5. Margate (Cliftonville) - Little Oasis Crazy Golf
6. Newquay - Mini Golf
7. Letoonia Golf Resort, Belek, Turkey - Minigolf
8. Mundesley - Adventure Island Golf
9. Ladram Bay - Crazy Golf
10. Majorca (Vista Alegre, Porto Cristo, Mallorca) - Minigolf
11. Sirmione, Lake Garda, Italy - Minigolf
12. Gorleston-on-Sea (Pop's Meadow) - Crazy Golf
13. Amsterdam - GlowGolf
14. Remich, Luxembourg - Eternit Miniature Golf
15. Nittel, Germany - Minigolf
16. Zeltingen-Rachtig, Germany - Beton Minigolf
17. Traben-Trarbach, Germany - Eternit Miniature Golf
18. Kobern-Gondorf, Germany - Abenteuergolf
19. Kobern-Gondorf, Germany - Eternit Miniature Golf
20. Bernkastel-Kues, Germany - Minigolf
21. Ville de Sète, France - Mini Golf - now a skatepark
22. Lac de la Cavayère, Carcassonne, France - Mini Golf - only open in July and August
23. Bali Mini Golf and Luwak Coffee Garden, Indonesia - Mini Golf

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Christopher Gottfried
- Guest Blog Posts

Link:
- Bali Mini Golf

Minigolf in Carcassonne - Lac de la Cavayère

A look at the minigolf course in Lac de la Cavayère, France.

Charter member of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour Christopher Gottfried has been off on his travels in continental Europe again and this time has come up trumps in finding a minigolf course at Lac de la Cavayère.

However, the course is only open in July and August!

  

A view of the course from afar

Christopher remarked that the place seems to combine my love of mini golf and park benches... one for every hole it seems!

What a lovely spot it'd be to have a sit down

There do certainly seem to be ample facilities for sitting

A couple of days ago Christopher was in Sète and spotted Mini Golf listed on this map (C1), however it's been turned into a skatepark.

C1 is now a skatepark

Earlier this month Christopher ticked off a few more minigolf course visits in Europe during a cycling trip in the Mosel Valley in Luxembourg and Germany.

Minigolf in the Mosel Valley, Germany

A selection of minigolf photos from a cycling trip in the Mosel Valley, Germany.

Charter Member of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour Christopher Gottfried has just returned from a cycling trip in the Mosel Valley, Germany. While travelling along the route he managed to spot quite a few miniature golf courses.

He began his journey in Luxembourg where he found this Eternit Miniature Golf course on the Esplanade de la Moselle in Remich.

Minigolf in Remich

He followed that visit over the border in Germany when he went looking for the Minigolf course in Nittel.

A sign for the Minigolf course in Nittel

Next up was a stop in Zeltingen-Rachtig where he found this Beton / Concrete style of Minigolf course.

The Minigolf course in Zeltingen-Rachtig

The Hammer Cage lane - you have to pitch the ball from a tee, across the grass and onto a large concrete circular 'green. We've played this tricky hole in Finland and Sweden

In Traben-Trarbach he found this Eternit Miniature Golf layout.

The approach to the minigolf course in Traben-Trarbach

The Eternit miniature golf course in Traben-Trarbach

The minigolf course in Traben-Trarbach

While in Kobern-Gondorf he spotted an indoor Abenteuergolf course, as well as an Eternit Miniature Golf.

Christopher Gottfried outside an indoor Adventure Golf course in Kobern-Gondorf

The Eternit Miniature Golf course in Kobern-Gondorf

The last course he found on his mini-tour was in Bernkastel-Kues.

The minigolf course in Bernkastel-Kues

Check out the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour list for details of the 815 courses Emily and I have visited, along with the 20 Christopher has been too as well.

Knowing my interest in petanque and trains Christopher also sent over these snaps from the trip.

A Boule-Platz in Traben-Trarbach

A freight train in Bernkastel-Kues