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| A type of KFC |
Thursday, September 07, 2017
Kingtucky Fried Chicken in Manchester
It's long since closed down - or was forcibly shut down!
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer.
Pacer Face-Off at Manchester Piccadilly
What a sight for fans of Pacer Railbuses!
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| What a sight! |
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer.
Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Adventure Golf at Pontins Pakefield
A look at the minigolf course at Pontins Pakefield in Suffolk.
Our friends Sophia and Karl Moles were on a family holiday at Pontins Pakefield and sent us some photos of the Sailing Through The Ages minigolf course at the holiday park. It looks great fun.
Check out the other guest blog posts from Sophia and Karl about minigolf courses at Allhallows Leisure Holiday Park in Rochester, Haven's Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park and the Minigolf Sport Club Sanremo in Arma, Italy.
Emily and I have played two minigolf courses at Pontins holiday parks - at Prestatyn Sands and Camber Sands.
Related blog posts:
- Pontins
Link:
- Pontins Pakefield
Our friends Sophia and Karl Moles were on a family holiday at Pontins Pakefield and sent us some photos of the Sailing Through The Ages minigolf course at the holiday park. It looks great fun.
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| There's even a 'Titanic' on the course! |
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| Always nice to see BIG obstacles on minigolf courses |
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| There are plenty of nautical obstacles on the course |
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| Iceberg dead ahead! |
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| It looks like a good minigolf layout |
Check out the other guest blog posts from Sophia and Karl about minigolf courses at Allhallows Leisure Holiday Park in Rochester, Haven's Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park and the Minigolf Sport Club Sanremo in Arma, Italy.
Emily and I have played two minigolf courses at Pontins holiday parks - at Prestatyn Sands and Camber Sands.
Related blog posts:
- Pontins
Link:
- Pontins Pakefield
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer.
North Korea Exhibition in Wigan
Visiting the North Korea, An Exploration exhibition at The Old Courts in Wigan.
Last Friday we went along to the opening night of North Korea, An Exploration - an exhibition by our friend Dylan Harris from Lupine Travel. The exhibition is a showcase of a selection of rare propaganda posters and artifacts collected by Dylan from his travels to the country. There were some very interesting items and photographs from his collection on display.
North Korea, An Exporation is open at The Old Courts in Wigan until the 30th September.
Also at the exhibition opening party was photography from Sandra Ratkovic's very interesting and colourful Moscow project.
Visit the Lupine Travel website for more information on the tours they organise. It's not just North Korea you can visit with them either, as they operate tours to other far-flung places including Chernobyl, Transnistria, Eritrea, Chad, Iran, Iraqi Kurdistan, Antarctica and more!
On Dylan's 2015 trip to North Korea he and his party competed in the first-ever Pyongyang Minigolf Open Tournament! Check out the blog post Mini Golf in Pyongyang, North Korea for more information and photos of the course, said to have been in Kim Jong Un's personal residence before he gifted it to the North Korean people and had it moved to its current location.
Links:
- Lupine Travel
- The Old Courts
Related blog posts:
- Wigan
- Mini Golf in Pyongyang, North Korea
Last Friday we went along to the opening night of North Korea, An Exploration - an exhibition by our friend Dylan Harris from Lupine Travel. The exhibition is a showcase of a selection of rare propaganda posters and artifacts collected by Dylan from his travels to the country. There were some very interesting items and photographs from his collection on display.
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| Welcome to Pyongyang! |
North Korea, An Exporation is open at The Old Courts in Wigan until the 30th September.
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| Poster from North Korea's participation in the 2010 World Cup |
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| We bought a set of postcards |
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| A book on Kim Jong Il |
Also at the exhibition opening party was photography from Sandra Ratkovic's very interesting and colourful Moscow project.
Visit the Lupine Travel website for more information on the tours they organise. It's not just North Korea you can visit with them either, as they operate tours to other far-flung places including Chernobyl, Transnistria, Eritrea, Chad, Iran, Iraqi Kurdistan, Antarctica and more!
On Dylan's 2015 trip to North Korea he and his party competed in the first-ever Pyongyang Minigolf Open Tournament! Check out the blog post Mini Golf in Pyongyang, North Korea for more information and photos of the course, said to have been in Kim Jong Un's personal residence before he gifted it to the North Korean people and had it moved to its current location.
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| North Korea's first Miniature Golf course |
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| The Pyongyang Minigolf course and red velvet covered bench in the centre where it is claimed Kim Jong Un sat while he directed the workers on where to place each hole |
Links:
- Lupine Travel
- The Old Courts
Related blog posts:
- Wigan
- Mini Golf in Pyongyang, North Korea
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer.
Crazy Golf at the Mid Sussex Business Expo
Golf-themed business expo in Burgess Hill, West Sussex this Thursday.
The team at Network Xpress are organising the golf-themed Business Expo at The King's Centre in Burgess Hill this Thursday, 7th September. The Sussex-based business event organisers are offering a fresh approach to networking with new, fun and themed-events. In addition to the 60 exhibitors, keynote speakers, workshops and seminars there will be a Crazy Golf tournament running all day.
It sounds great.
Visit the Network Xpress website for more information on the Mid Sussex Expo and other events they run.
As a marketer I'm all for innovation in business and events. Over the years I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly of events and so it'll be interesting to hear the feedback from the Mid Sussex Expo.
Crazy Golf is experiencing a boom and is getting more poplar as a business tool. The team at Putting Edge are receiving a number of bookings from the corporate market and for events in my local area in the North West, while UrbanCrazy's range of minigolf games and course layouts have been going strong for well over a decade. One of the first portable courses I played was an UrbanCrazy layout at the International Direct Marketing Fair in May 2007. Our friends at Putterfingers also offer Crazy Golf layouts for a number of different business and leisure events.
More recently I played a very nice bespoke minigolf hole at the CIH Housing Conference and Exhibition at Manchester Central and a two-hole layout at the Prolific North Live Show at EventCity.
If you enjoy minigolf and marketing crossovers you'll like my ebook too - check out The Minigolfer's Guide to Marketing on Amazon. There's a preview of the book below.
If you'd like to know more about my marketing work and how I can help you and your business please do get in touch via my website.
Related blog posts:
- Business
- Marketing
- West Sussex
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- The Minigolfer's Guide to Marketing
The team at Network Xpress are organising the golf-themed Business Expo at The King's Centre in Burgess Hill this Thursday, 7th September. The Sussex-based business event organisers are offering a fresh approach to networking with new, fun and themed-events. In addition to the 60 exhibitors, keynote speakers, workshops and seminars there will be a Crazy Golf tournament running all day.
It sounds great.
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| Information about the Network Xpress Mid Sussex Expo 2017 |
Visit the Network Xpress website for more information on the Mid Sussex Expo and other events they run.
As a marketer I'm all for innovation in business and events. Over the years I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly of events and so it'll be interesting to hear the feedback from the Mid Sussex Expo.
Crazy Golf is experiencing a boom and is getting more poplar as a business tool. The team at Putting Edge are receiving a number of bookings from the corporate market and for events in my local area in the North West, while UrbanCrazy's range of minigolf games and course layouts have been going strong for well over a decade. One of the first portable courses I played was an UrbanCrazy layout at the International Direct Marketing Fair in May 2007. Our friends at Putterfingers also offer Crazy Golf layouts for a number of different business and leisure events.
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| The Trade On Tap Hole-in-One challenge from Plumb Center and Parts Center at the CIH Housing 2016 Exhibition |
More recently I played a very nice bespoke minigolf hole at the CIH Housing Conference and Exhibition at Manchester Central and a two-hole layout at the Prolific North Live Show at EventCity.
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| The Putting Edge layout at the Prolific North Live Show earlier this year |
If you enjoy minigolf and marketing crossovers you'll like my ebook too - check out The Minigolfer's Guide to Marketing on Amazon. There's a preview of the book below.
If you'd like to know more about my marketing work and how I can help you and your business please do get in touch via my website.
Related blog posts:
- Business
- Marketing
- West Sussex
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- The Minigolfer's Guide to Marketing
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer.
Monday, September 04, 2017
Leisure Land Crazy Golf at York Art Gallery
Playing Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf course at York Art Gallery.
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| A look at the first three holes |
On Sunday 3rd September we swung by York Art Gallery to play Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf course. The 7-hole layout became the 451st we've played and 763rd visited overall on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.
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| Playing hole 2 |
In our match-up on the course I picked up the win with a score of 16 to Emily's 38.
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| My score was enough to top the leaderboard - the previous best on the day had been 26. Although when we walked back through the gardens just as the course was closing a score of 15 had been made later in the day |
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| Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf |
The minigolf layout consists of holes and obstacles created by different artists from the contemporary art world.
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| Hole 1 - Reactor - Alligator Resort |
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| Hole 1 |
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| Hole 1 |
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| Hole 2 - Yinka Shonibare MBE - Football Cloud |
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| Hole 2 |
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| Hole 3 - Eyal and Ines Weizman - The Bridge of Königsberg |
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| My favourite hole - it's always great to score less than 1 on a hole! |
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| Hole 4 - Hetain Patel - Coloured Processor |
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| Hole 4 not the easiest hole(s) to play! |
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| Hole 4 |
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| Hole 4 |
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| Hole 5 - John Akomfrah - The Turkey Shoot Galactico |
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| Hole 5 |
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| Hole 5 |
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| Hole 6 - Doug Fishbone - SOS |
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| Hole 6 |
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| Hole 6 |
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| Hole 6 |
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| Hole 7 - Ellie Harrison - Life Raft |
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| Hole 7 |
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| X marks the spot |
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| The green on hole 7 |
Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf course was open at York Art Gallery throughout the summer following its installation as part of an Art Happens campaign to bring the course to York. It was originally created for the Venice Biennale in 2015 and last year was in Nottingham and Derby. I played the course in Nottingham - it was 10-holes then. And indoors.
Who knows where it'll be installed next...
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| Emily playing hole 2 |
Minigolf is a popular theme for artists and we've played a few other art-installation pop-up crazy golf courses on our travels. Our friends of at A Couple of Putts have also created a few holes, obstacles and courses for art galleries and shows!
Visit the York Art Gallery website for more information on the exhibition.
Links:
- York Art Gallery
Related blog posts:
- York
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf in Venice
- Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf in Nottingham
Videos of the course:
- Hole 1
- Hole 3 - scoring a '2'
- Hole 3 - scoring another '2'
- Hole 3 - scoring a hole-in-none!
- Hole 4
- Hole 5
- Hole 7
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer.
Crazy Golf at York Golf Range
Playing the Crazy Golf course at York Golf Range.
On Sunday 3rd September we visited York Golf Range in Towthorpe near Strensall to play the Crazy Golf course there. The 11-hole layout became the 452nd we've played and 764th visited overall on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.
In our match-up on the Adventure Crazy Golf course Emily picked up the win with a score of 40 to my round of 42.
As well as the Crazy Golf there's also a Driving Range, 9-hole Golf course and a good looking Footgolf layout.
Link:
- York Golf Range
Related blog posts:
- Yorkshire
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
On Sunday 3rd September we visited York Golf Range in Towthorpe near Strensall to play the Crazy Golf course there. The 11-hole layout became the 452nd we've played and 764th visited overall on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.
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| Playing hole 5 |
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| Emily on hole 2 |
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| Playing hole 6 |
In our match-up on the Adventure Crazy Golf course Emily picked up the win with a score of 40 to my round of 42.
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| You get a nice scorecard to mark your round |
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| The Rules |
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| Hole 1 |
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| Hole 2 |
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| Hole 3 |
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| Hole 3 |
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| Hole 4 |
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| An interesting rule. Neither of us made it through the windmill |
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| Hole 5 |
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| Hole 6 |
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| Hole 6 |
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| Hole 7 |
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| Hole 8 |
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| Hole 9 |
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| Hole 10 |
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| Hole 11 |
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| The obstacle on hole 11 is nigh on impossible to complete! |
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| The course is called Adventure Crazy Golf - a new synonym for us! |
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| Emily on hole 4 |
As well as the Crazy Golf there's also a Driving Range, 9-hole Golf course and a good looking Footgolf layout.
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| The Footgolf course at York Golf Centre was a lot shorter than other layouts I've seen. It looked good, like a Footgolf 'Putting' course |
Link:
- York Golf Range
Related blog posts:
- Yorkshire
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer.
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