The Masters Crazy Golf in Southport

A visit to the Crazy Golf course at King's Gardens in Southport.

Back in 2009 the 18-hole Arnold Palmer Putting Course at King's Gardens in Southport became the 150th course played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The very tall sign and lucky 19th hole

We revisited the course in October this year, and as Southport is now relatively local to us we went along for another look while we were in the seaside town to see Roger Moore at the theatre last month.

Our third visit to Southport and The Masters Crazee Golf course

The Masters Crazee Putting is a great looking course. It's bright, colourful, full of tricky obstacles and when open proves very popular.

A view of the course from hole 11

We're looking forward to a game on the course next summer.

 

 

  

 

 

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Pirate Adventure Golf in Ryde

Revisiting the Pirate Adventure Golf course in Ryde.

The first minigolf course visited on our trip to the Isle of Wight in October was the Adventure Golf course at Peter Pan's Funfair and Amusements on the Esplanade in Ryde. As we were on the isle slightly out of season we weren't expecting all of the courses to be open for a game.

A BIG minigolf skull. And Mr Bump

We also weren't expecting to see the course quite as flooded as it was! We'd clearly escaped being thoroughly drenched while on the hovercraft over from Southsea.

Floody hell!

Good luck teeing off

I believe there's a skellington in a cell in that tunnel

An even trickier uphill shot now

The course still looks to be in great condition

The Pirate Adventure Golf course in Ryde was the 68th course visited and played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour back in 2009.

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Happy National Christmas Tree Day 2016!

A visit to Christmas Tree World in Cheadle Hulme.

To mark the occasion we popped round Christmas Tree World at Lion House Farm in Cheadle Hulme to buy our first real Christmas tree. Marvellous.

The perfect sized tree for our new place. Great service at Christmas Tree World too. And you get to see ducks, geese and chickens on the ponds next to the trees

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The end of Felixstowe Pier...and the new one

Taking a look at the building of the new pier in Felixstowe.

Last weekend we visited the seaside town of Felixstowe in Suffolk. It's probably our most visited seaside as we take a trip there pretty much every time we go back to Ipswich to visit friends and family. On this occasion we had a look at the pier as it's undergoing a great deal of redevelopment!

How the pier looked in January 2015.

The pier entrance building in May 2011.

And in December 2011.

On our visit last year we walked UNDER the pier for the first time and saw this ominous message!

The new pier is scheduled to reopen in August 2017. It'll be interesting to see how it differs to the old one.

Check out our other blog posts about Felixstowe.

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

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

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Sea Road Adventure Golf course in Felixstowe

A visit to the Fantasia Adventure Golf course on Sea Road in Felixstowe.

It's something of a tradition that when we're in Felixstowe we have to visit the Fantasia Adventure Golf course on Sea Road. Even when it's out of season.

Luckily we've played the course a lot over the years and we had a great match on the 9-hole layout in June.

The course was the 7th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour back in November 2006. 

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The volleyball net in Felixstowe

I've been visiting the seaside town of Felixstowe in Suffolk for many many years now and not once have I seen anyone using the volleyball net on the bit of grass on Sea Road.

And yet, there it hangs, year after year, peak season, out of season, come rain or shine. It's always just there.

The Felixstowe volleyball net

Inflatable Santa Claus

Spotting a MASSIVE inflatable Father Christmas.

This has got to be the BIGGEST inflatable character I've seen on my travels! He was at Star City in Birmingham.

What a GIANT inflatable Santa Claus!

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