HONG KONG SUCCESS (March 08)

Some of you may know that one of our members, Roger Humphrey, went to Hong Kong with three other bowlers from Cyprus. They had entered as a team of four in three different competitions, an International Mixed Fours, the Tiger Bowls Tournament and the China Open. Roger went with Mike Cooper and Dave Webb from Coral Bay and George Walker, the current Cypriot Men’s Champion who plays at Club Aphrodite in Erimi.

They finished in a very respectable 58th position out of 78 countries who took part but as Roger says “The highlights were beating Australia B in the Tiger Bowls and in the China Open we pulled off a major surprise by beating Scotland A, one of the fancied teams.”

The web-site of The Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association contains all the information. Roger also says “Fantastic experience though very, very hard on grass!”

ISRAEL TRIP (March 2008)

Attempts to organise a bowling holiday to Israel have failed – but only for the time being. A small number of people had put their names down for the trip which was going to take place in March or April but as a result of some internal turmoil and strife in Israel, a majority of those going decided that it would be best to postpone it.

There are only a small number of bowling destinations which we can travel to direct from Cyprus, Israel being one and also the one which received the highest level of interest when club members were first asked about the idea last year. Spain and Portugal are other possibilities but there are no direct flights. South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand etc. are possibilities but are clearly expensive options.