Boules in the Bluegrass.
It is with great thanks to those in the Louisville Metro Parks Department that we announce the first public petanque terrain. Ok, well, officially we have to share the space with volleyball, but a terrain nonetheless. It’s located in Seneca Park just east of the tennis courts. I’ll include some photos and a Google Earth file below.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pétanque, Alliance Française Louisville and pétanque Louisville will host an afternoon of Pétanque and Picnicking on the grounds of St. Matthews Elementary School. Please bring your own picnic, blanket, chairs, beverages, boules, etc. For us, this will be the first pétanque outing of the year. We hope to see you there.
AFL and PL to host a 100th Anniversary of Petanque celebration picnic on 5/20/07 potentially at the Louisville waterfront. More info to come.
In this past sunday’s edition of the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Patrick Kampert, who covered the Midwest Alliance Doublette Tournament a couple of weeks ago, wrote a very nice article about Petanque entitled “The old boule game - petanque, bocce’s French cousin, gets first area tournament.” Our thanks to Mr. Kampert for covering the tournament and for including us in the article.
UPDATE: It appears that the Tribune now requires you to register with them before you can read the archived article. Fortunately, it’s a free registration.
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.
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’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.