Ryder Cup 2010
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:05 pm
I tend to write meandering posts, I already know that, you needn't tell me it meanders.
Anyway. The Ryder Cup this year is being held at the Celtic Manor Resort six months from now, just over the way from here. If anyone's thinking of going I recommend the Celtic Manor Hotel, it's pretty sumptuous. Views, too.
It's what's nearby that might tempt people to this year's contest. Just up the road from the resort is a Roman Legionary fortress, the ground plan and foundations in as good a preservation as the best that can be found on Hadrian's wall. It still has a turfed amphitheatre, as a day out it's instructive and pleasurable. Unlike golf. It's at Caerleon, once home to the third archbishopric of Britain and heavily involved in Arthurian legend. It's 17 miles from here so if anyone's doing the Ryder Cup, shout and I'll come over for a pint with you in the Hanbury Arms. Tennyson wrote the Idylls Of The King there. In the saloon bar.
Anyone tempted?
Here, this is the bit from a book I was reading that sparked the post:In old time there were thrée archbishops, and so manie prouinces in this Ile; of which one kept at London, another at Yorke, and the third at Caerlheon vpon Uske. But as that of London was translated to Canturburie by Augustine, and that of Yorke remaineth (notwithstanding that the greatest part of his iurisdiction is now bereft him and giuen to the Scotish archbishop) so that of Caerlheon is vtterlie extinguished, and the gouernement of the countrie vnited to that of Canturburie in spirituall cases: after it was once before remoued to S. Dauids in Wales by Dauid successor to Dubritius, and vncle to king Arthur, in the 519 of Grace, to the end that he and his clearkes might be further off from the crueltie of the Saxons, where it remained till the time of the Bastard, and for a season after, before it was annexed vnto the sée of Canturburie.
Anyway. The Ryder Cup this year is being held at the Celtic Manor Resort six months from now, just over the way from here. If anyone's thinking of going I recommend the Celtic Manor Hotel, it's pretty sumptuous. Views, too.
It's what's nearby that might tempt people to this year's contest. Just up the road from the resort is a Roman Legionary fortress, the ground plan and foundations in as good a preservation as the best that can be found on Hadrian's wall. It still has a turfed amphitheatre, as a day out it's instructive and pleasurable. Unlike golf. It's at Caerleon, once home to the third archbishopric of Britain and heavily involved in Arthurian legend. It's 17 miles from here so if anyone's doing the Ryder Cup, shout and I'll come over for a pint with you in the Hanbury Arms. Tennyson wrote the Idylls Of The King there. In the saloon bar.
Anyone tempted?
Here, this is the bit from a book I was reading that sparked the post:In old time there were thrée archbishops, and so manie prouinces in this Ile; of which one kept at London, another at Yorke, and the third at Caerlheon vpon Uske. But as that of London was translated to Canturburie by Augustine, and that of Yorke remaineth (notwithstanding that the greatest part of his iurisdiction is now bereft him and giuen to the Scotish archbishop) so that of Caerlheon is vtterlie extinguished, and the gouernement of the countrie vnited to that of Canturburie in spirituall cases: after it was once before remoued to S. Dauids in Wales by Dauid successor to Dubritius, and vncle to king Arthur, in the 519 of Grace, to the end that he and his clearkes might be further off from the crueltie of the Saxons, where it remained till the time of the Bastard, and for a season after, before it was annexed vnto the sée of Canturburie.
