Introduction aux vacances pour enfants et adolescents Les vacances pour enfants et adolescents représentent bien plus qu'un simple moment de repos. Elles offrent une occasion unique d'explorer le monde à travers des colonies de vacances et des voyages éducatifs. Ces expériences sont conçues pour … [Read more...]
Gestire il proprio patrimonio investendo in diamanti
May 11, 2025 By
Introduzione alla gestione patrimoniale attraverso i diamanti La gestione patrimoniale è un aspetto cruciale per chi desidera garantire un futuro finanziario solido e sicuro. Negli ultimi anni, i diamanti sono emersi come una forma unica di investimento, grazie alla loro capacità di integrare nel … [Read more...]
Oplev hvordan du gør vinterferien sjov og mindeværdig
May 3, 2025 By
Introduktion til vinterferien og dens betydning Vinterferien er en kærkommen pause fra hverdagens stress og jag, og den giver både børn og voksne mulighed for at komme tættere på hinanden. Det er en tid til at udforske vinteraktiviteter, hvor man kan nyde sneen og deltage i udendørs lege som skiture … [Read more...]
Where have they gone?
June 5, 2019 By
What’s happening to tournaments? Doesn’t anyone want to go anymore? Tired of seeing the same faces from across the state and the country all the time (most of whom are not very sociable anyway)? Apart from a few die-hard pros intent on beating each other’s brains out in knockouts and the souls … [Read more...]
Mr. Ping’s Thing
April 22, 2019 By
Last week my partner Christine and I closely followed the Daily Bulletins from the Florida Southeasterns Regional bridge tournament in Coral Springs. Due to her teaching and my directing commitments, we’d be able to play there only one day, Saturday [4-13-2019] Bracketed Swiss Teams with our South … [Read more...]
In Praise of Pre-empts
July 1, 2018 By 2 Comments
Personally I hate moving – I’ve done way too much of it during my life and don’t plan on ever moving again – but it must be said that a change of venue is good for some things. Take the Jacksonville bridge tournament, traditionally held just before or around the 4th of July holiday and the smallest … [Read more...]
2-Day Monkey Business
December 9, 2017 By 3 Comments
Our home club, the Vero Beach Bridge Center, this past weekend experimented with a two-day Sectional tournament, instead of the usual three-day format. According to the club’s managers, they made just as much money off a two-day Sectional on Saturday and Sunday only as they used to earn off a … [Read more...]
North of the Border
August 6, 2017 By 1 Comment
There are two major impressions my partner Christine and I took away from spending almost a week at the 2017 summer North American Bridge Championships in Toronto, Canada. On one hand, it was great to see so many friends from Florida, Canada, as well as from our former haunts in the … [Read more...]
Silver…at last
November 23, 2016 By 3 Comments
Well, I finally did it. I went over the 1,000-point mark and I am now officially a Silver Life Master. It seems like only yesterday that I had just 100 or so points and I looked up to people who had around 800 points as if that was an impossible mountain to climb. I thought I’d never get there, … [Read more...]
The Burglar’s brother steals the bid
November 9, 2013 By 2 Comments
My oldest brother Johan taught me how to play bridge some 60 years ago, but we had never played duplicate together as a pair. So naturally, when he and his wife visited me and Christine in Vero Beach – they were the first of what we hope will be many visitors – we had to play duplicate at least … [Read more...]