Boules in the Bluegrass.
If you’ve noticed those 4 little thumbnail sized photos over there in the sidebar on the right, those are generated from the PetanqueLouisville Flickr Feed. We would love to see your photos from the games this past weekend. You can either join our Flickr group or tag your photos in your Flickr account with chicagopetanquetourney2006.
We’re in Chicago (Oak Park, IL) for the doublettes tournament. We’ll keep you posted.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, rain delayed the tournament twice. First, for only a couple of hours. Then the rest of the afternoon. Sadly, we couldn’t stay through sunday to finish the qualification round. We had a great time despite the rain. We enjoyed meeting all of the talented boulistes from Chicago and Michigan, and look forward to playing together again sometime soon. Say in Louisville. See you soon.
Mark and Chase
I just returned from a delightful picnic of food and petanque with Alliance Francaise of Louisville and others. This was PL’s first membership campaign. I had a blast and I look forward to hearing back from Guy, Michel, Olivier and others.
The results: Our team won the first. Their team won the second. An even draw.
So, there should be a rematch. Let’s make a date.
Mark
Our friends to the north are gearing up for The Midwest Petanque Alliance Fall Doublettes Tournament.
The doublettes tournament will be held in Forest Park, Illinois less than 10 miles west of downtown Chicago.
We hope to participate in the tournament. We hope you’ll be there too.
We very much appreciate all of the friendly welcome notes from the greater Petanque community. Thank you.
We finally have a way to contact us thanks to Ryan Duff.
Our Game page is now up. Finally.
We’ve started a flickr group titled, creatively enough, PetanqueLouisville. Join us, share your photos, discuss p&ecaute;tanque.
We’ve added a Google map with links for directions on the community page so that you can easily find your way to the piste on the Louisville Waterfront. We hope this helps. We would really like to hear your feedback, suggestions, criticisms. Write to us: contact form.
UPDATE: We’ve changed the Local Community Info page to reflect the new piste construction proposal site that’s currently under review by the Louisville Metro Parks Department.
Well, we’re up and running. There isn’t much here, yet. We hope to help spread the word about the sport of P&ecaute;tanque to the Bluegrass State. We discovered Pétanque by accident and immediately wanted to invite all of our friends over to play a game or two on our piste (the designated court within the terrain on which the game is played). We hope to see ya’ll soon.