New Adventure Golf course to open in Leicester

New Adventure Golf course heading to the Highcross Shopping Centre in Leicester.

The team behind Treetop Adventure Golf in Cardiff are opening a brand new Adventure Golf course to the Highcross Shopping Centre in Leicester. The new indoor minigolf course is planned to open by the end of 2018.

Check out the Treetop Adventure Golf and Highcross Shopping Centre websites to keep up to date with news of the course.

We're looking forward to playing the new course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in the future.

Minigolf is most certainly booming!

A gluten free burger in a gluten free brioche-style bun!

We're always on the lookout for new and interesting gluten free food and we made a great discovery at Waitrose in Lutterworth, Leicestershire at the weekend when we spotted the packs of brioche style buns made by Just: Gluten Free Bakery!

What a find!

For dinner tonight we cooked up some gluten free burgers from the Co-Operative and put them in the brioche buns. They were delicious.

A fine burger, topped with bacon and cheese and stuffed in a nice brioche style bun. The free from Onion Rings from Tesco were great too. Note the healthy items on the plate

Check out the links below for more info on Just: Gluten Free Bakery.

Links:
- Just: Gluten Free Bakery website
- Just: Gluten Free Bakery on Twitter
- Just: Gluten Free Bakery on Facebook

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- Gluten Free
- Coeliac
- Funny things about being a Coeliac

Minigolf at Charnwood Golf Complex in Loughborough

A visit to the Miniature Golf course at Charnwood Golf Complex.

A view of the Charnwood Minigolf course

On Saturday 29th August we visited the 9-hole Minigolf course at Charnwood Golf Complex in Loughborough.

It's a nice little course

The course was designed and built by UrbanCrazy and is a great skill-based layout.

The colourful third hole. Emily aced it

In our match-up I scored 16(-2) with Emily hitting a 25(+7). The course was the 670th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and the 388th played.

The tricky second

I had a pleasing ace on the first

And I got a hole-in-one on the ninth

A tough long hole, but it has a forgiving green

Up and around

Another view of the third

Another tricky hole position

For more information on the course, opening times and prices visit the Charnwood Golf Complex website.

Links:
- Charnwood Golf Complex
- UrbanCrazy

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- UrbanCrazy
- New Miniature Golf course open in Loughborough

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Mini Golf at Rutland Water Visitor Centre

A round of Mini Golf at Rutland Water.

The Rutland Water Mini Golf course

On Friday 8 May 2015 we went to Rutland Water to play the 12-hole Mini Golf course at the Visitor Centre.

Emily on hole 3

The course was the 597th visited and 361st played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Hole 5

It's a great layout with some good hole-in-one opportunities and nice obstacles including a big loop-di-loop.

A BIG minigolf loop-di-loop

The cups on the holes are quite wide and very shallow!

Hole 1

Hole 7

Hole 11

 

Emily playing the incredibly difficult last hole

Emily won our contest, shooting a 27 to my 29 in round one, followed by a 27 to my 25 in round two. We both had four aces across the two games.



The Mini Golf course is located at the Rutland Water Visitor Centre on Sykes Lane, Empingham, Rutland, Leicestershire, LE15 8QL.

The sign for the course on the entrance road

For more information, opening times and prices please visit the Rutland Water website.

A view of the course from hole 1

We enjoyed our visit to Rutland Water and would go back. It's a pleasant spot and a very good Crazy Golf course.

Crazy Minigolfers at Rutland Water Mini Golf

Rutland Water

Link:
- Rutland Water website

Video:
- Minigolf Hole-in-One at Rutland Water

Related blog post:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - list and links for all courses visited to date

Congo River Adventure Golf at Blaby Golf Centre

Playing the 329th miniature golf course on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour at Blaby Golf Centre in Leicestershire.

Blaby Golf Centre is home to an 18-hole Minigolf course - the Congo River

On Thursday 27th March 2014 we visited Blaby Golf Centre in Leicestershire to play the Congo River Adventure Golf course.

A previous visitor to the Congo River Adventure Golf course in Blaby!

There's a crashed plane on the course too!

On the day of our visit we were told that three of the 18-holes were being cleaned/repaired so we'd only be able to have a partial round.

One of the closed holes

As we'd travelled to Blaby specifically to play the course we weren't put off by the prospect of not having a full game.

The Adventure Golf layout is interesting and has some unique hole designs. Some of the holes have a carpet-like surface, while others are felt coverings.

Emily putting at Blaby Golf Centre

  

Richard putting by the crashed plane

One of the holes sees you Putting over a bridge walkway

A view of the Congo River. In Blaby, Leicestershire!

Emily playing hole 17 on her way to a slight victory over Richard

In our match-up Emily and I tied on a score of 49 apiece, although as Emily scored a hole-in-one and I didn't she picked up the victory.

The course was the 329th played and 549th visited overall on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Link:

- Blaby Golf Centre

Related blog post:

- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

From the archives - Coalville Minigolf, Leicestershire (June 2008)

Back on the 14th June 2008 we were heading to Northallerton on a roadtrip (that would also see us play courses in Scarborough and Filey) and were passing by Coalville on our journey up the M1 so decided to look in on the (then) brand new 9-hole hole course.


The course in Coalville, Leicestershire was the 54th we visited on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour at that point.



While we were there we held a three-player Irregular Mini Golf Tour competition that saw me, Emily and our friend Daniel Marsh play a two-round (18-hole) match. The first round was a qualifier, with the top two players then facing off against each other in round two.

In round one Emily scored a 28(+10), to me and Daniel's 23(+5).

In the second round Daniel hit a 24(+6), while I scored a 23(+5) again to just sneak the victory with a two-round +10 score of 46!




The next time we're heading north we must pass by the course for another round or two.