So what did happen to the Coup? Well here’s some of the photos anyway. The story in summary is that The Coup was “stolen” from the Mount Wolsey hotel where the last night of the 2002 Coup was being held. After much effort, Mike Byrne tracked an identical replacement down. This was shipped from Jarnac […]
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2009 Cognac
Maybe the four year gap between trip to Ireland made us look back and decide it was time for a return to Cognac, the previous french trip had been to Evreux in 2003, and it was 10 years since the first Coup in 1999. With Les Hiboux no longer available, we stayed at a small […]
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After the joys of Les Hiboux, a new location in France was needed when Richard and Jean sold up and moved further north. T he plan was to return to Cognac and provisional bookings were made, but in the Spring Richard confirmed that they would have sold up and new owners would be there. Les […]
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In 2001 we returned to Cognac and Les Hiboux – the last time we’d stay there as Richard and Jean sold up the following year – in 2003 the plan was to return and provisional bookings were made, but in the Spring Richard confirmed that they would have sold up and new owners would be […]
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In 1993 (or 94) a group of mostly AIG (or ex-AIG) guys went on what became know as Not The Mutants Golf trip to Kenmare in SW Ireland. Gerry Canavan, Mark Linzey and I were in that group and from time to time talked about a repeat. In 1995 or 96, Mike McCue, Bill Cunningham […]
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