{"id":1397,"date":"2025-04-22T05:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2025-04-22T05:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:16:33","slug":"alisei-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/alisei-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alisei (Italy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alisei-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"439\" height=\"526\" title=\"Alisei 1\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Alisei 1\" src=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alisei-1_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">We have made a tradition of visiting Italy from the UK during the Easter weekend (which in Europe provides 2 extra public holidays \u2013 Good Friday and Easter Monday). Just enough time for the 2-3 hour flight to warm climes of Italy at the end of the British winter. Another bonus is that Italy has a fair number of golf courses and nearly every one we have come across is dog-friendly. This year\u2019s expedition was to a longstanding destination on the <i>lista dei desideria<\/i> \u2013 Cinque Terre. Since many places are closed on the Easter holiday itself, we often play a round of golf to celebrate day and burn off our chocolate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">We found <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/golfalisei.it\/\"><font color=\"#008000\">Alisei<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#008000\"> about an hour\u2019s drive down the road. The course is a modest a \u201c6 hole\u201d in a fairly unassuming neighborhood, but it nonetheless exceeded our expectations. A friendly welcome included a well-provisioned little clubhouse with the cheeriest hello coming from their canine mascot, Theo (see photo) who frequents the course regularly.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\"><i>Walk \u2013 <\/i>As mentioned, the course is only 6 holes, but even if you play them 3 times over for the full 18 hole round, it is all completely flat and the holes are short (mostly under 100m except for a par 4 hole number 1 at 220 yards).<i><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\"><i>Water \u2013 <\/i>There are two easily accessible water hazards by Hole 1 and by Hole 2, but you are never very far from the clubhouse where a water dish is always waiting with fresh water.<i><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\"><i>Wildlife <\/i>\u2013 The area is in a fairly built-up area of the seaside and so we didn\u2019t encounter any wildlife or even any meandering seagulls.<u><\/u><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\"><i>Winddown <\/i>\u2013 The course had a small caf\u00e9 and outdoor eating area, but we felt like some seaside seafood so we drove the short distance to the shore and ate at Restaurante Europa. Not only was the fritto misto di mare possibly the best fried seafood platter we have had (especially the very tender calamari with very light battering), but it was also dog-friendly evidenced by a number of canine companions in the tables beside us.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alisei-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"280\" title=\"Alisei 2\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Alisei 2\" src=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alisei-2_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have made a tradition of visiting Italy from the UK during the Easter weekend (which in Europe provides 2 extra public holidays \u2013 Good Friday and Easter Monday). Just enough time for the 2-3 hour flight to warm climes of Italy at the end of the British winter. Another bonus is that Italy has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}