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France On Two Wheels

by Adam Ruck

France On Two Wheels

CONTENTS

  • Home
  • Introduction
  • Route 1
    Lake Geneva to Caen
    • Dinner with Marc Meneau
    • Guédelon
  • Route 2
    Massif Central (Loire 1)
    • The serial killer hoteliers
    • Troisgros
    • His finest hour
  • Route 3
    La Bastide to Arcachon
    • Roquefort
    • Yquem
  • Route 4
    Biarritz to La Charité-sur-Loire
    • A pelota champion
    • Aymeric Picaud – the pilgrim’s guide
  • Route 5
    Moulins to St-Brévin (Loire 2)
    • Hornblower on the Loire
    • Turner’s Loire
  • Route 6
    Paris to Avignon
    • The recipe road
    • Wine tasting in Tain L’Hermitage
  • Alsace Tour
  • Corsica
  • Brittany Tour
  • St Moritz on two wheels (and the train)
  • The Western Front
  • Ridgeway Rides
  • Travel Notes, Updates, Feedback
  • Hotel Archive
  • Contact Adam
  • Adam’s Blog
    • All Blog Posts
    • Skiing Posts

Category Archives: golf

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Gone for a swim

Posted on September 5, 2020 by adamruck

When I learnt from http://doggolf.info/ that Wales is among the least dog-friendly golfing corners of what for the moment, however inappropriately, we still call the United Kingdom, I felt an extra surge of pride in the lovely course and excellent … Continue reading →

Posted in golf, holidays, Wales | Tagged Aberdovey, aberdovey golf, Adam Ruck, Golf, Wales

Golf and covid: the new abnormal

Posted on May 10, 2020 by adamruck

At least the lockdown spared us the torture of golf. Tasting an unfamiliar hint of serenity in the mixed salad of my mood, I can only attribute it to an absence of missed tiddlers and sliced drives onto the railway … Continue reading →

Posted in France, golf | Tagged Adam Ruck, corona virus, covid, France, Golf

Hickory Trickery

Posted on April 18, 2018 by adamruck

  The Golf Collectors took their canvas bags and hickory sticks to Merioneth – some of them travelling by train, I trust – for their annual match against Aberdovey last Saturday.  The fixture was a couple of weeks later than … Continue reading →

Posted in golf, Wales | Tagged Aberdovey, Aberdyfi, Adam Ruck, Golf, Golf Collectors, Hickory

Brittany at half term: le golf de Morbihan

Posted on October 29, 2015 by adamruck

  Two weeks for half term in late October is a long haul for parents, especially those abandoned by their wives and daughters (in Venice for a weekend of bellinis and vaporetti).  My godson’s father suggested a ‘get into golf’ … Continue reading →

Posted in France, golf | Tagged Adam Ruck, Brittany, Brittany Ferries, France, Golf, Lorient, Omaha Beach, Rhuys Kerver

“Is my friend in the bunker, or is the bastard on the green?”

Posted on October 12, 2015 by adamruck

A friendly golf match was played in an excellent spirit on Saturday, and needless to say the tactics employed came under close scrutiny at the de-briefing which went on late into the night. Ian’s ball couldn’t possibly have landed where … Continue reading →

Posted in golf | Tagged 007, Adam Ruck, Goldfinger, Golf, James Bond, Royal St George's, sandwich, Stoke Park

Wethered on the spoon

Posted on October 5, 2015 by adamruck

I doubt that my latest investment in golf, £2.50 for Golf From Two Sides by Roger and Joyce Wethered (1922), will do much for my game, but it is a stylish read and illustrated by a few good pics that … Continue reading →

Posted in golf | Tagged Adam Ruck, Golf, Joyce Wethered, Roger Wethered

Casper’s last stand

Posted on February 8, 2015 by adamruck

  Tributes to the late Billy Casper have been strangely silent on the subject of his heroic 106 on the first day of the 2005 Masters, a record that was made to last.  Not content to compile the worst ever major … Continue reading →

Posted in golf | Tagged Billy Casper, Crans Montana, Golf, King Hassan II, Morocco, Omega Masters

A good walk soiled?

Posted on April 12, 2014 by adamruck

“I like a golf club that allows dogs,” a non-dog-owning friend told me the other day. “It makes the place more human, if that makes sense.”  It certainly does.  It signifies an openness of mind not always typical of golf … Continue reading →

Posted in golf | Tagged Adam Ruck, Budleigh Salterton, dogs, flat-coat retrievers, Golf, Saunton, Swinley Forest

If it’s April, this must be Augusta

Posted on April 9, 2014 by adamruck

Mastering the Majors, round one. The Masters. Golf goes viral or at least mildly contagious four times a year, when a Major Championship is under way.  Inside the clubhouse, golfers stop talking about their own never-ups and downs for a … Continue reading →

Posted in golf | Tagged Adam Ruck, Augusta, Bubba Watson, Colin Montgomerie, Golf, The Masters

Never up, never in

Posted on January 15, 2014 by adamruck

One of the skilful columnist’s tricks is to make us feel better about ourselves.   We warm to him, and will read him again.  There is enough in life and golf to depress us, without having the newspaper add to our … Continue reading →

Posted in golf, writing and editing | Tagged Adam Ruck, Bernard Darwin, Golf, putting

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