22 Sep, 2021 @ 12:45
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IN PICS: Discover ‘bonkers’ new Crazy Golf course just opened on Spain’s Costa del Sol

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A FABULOUS new crazy golf course includes a toilet to circumnavigate.

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The ingenious hole sits alongside other holes with gnomes, the Rock of Gibraltar and a windmill.

All part of the zany mind of Paul Hickling, it sits in a hidden valley between Casares and Manilva.

One of the coast’s longest-running entrepreneurs, Hickling came up with the idea of a crazy golf course after shutting his famous Roman Oasis restaurant two years ago.

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Not content to ‘sit back and do nothing’ he bust a gut (literally) to sculpt the course out of nothing this summer.

“I did it all on my own and lost ten kilos from all the hard work,” he explained.

But it has been more than worth it, with dozens (even hundreds) of visitors a day beating a trail to his door, hidden up a quiet country lane inland from Sabinillas.

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“I knew it would do well as there’s no other place like it on the coast,” he added.

Once the secret escape of legendary TV chef Keith Floyd, fortunately the former bar of the restaurant is still intact and you can order any drinks you fancy before, during or after your game. The Olive Press recommends the former.

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Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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