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Postcard-collection redesigned!

Lyon - Tournament of boules (lyonnaise) at the Bellecour square

Le Cap d'Antibes (Alpes-Martimes) - La Garoupe - Boule players near the chapel (water colour by Michel Pelletier)

Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)

Saint-Jorioz (Haute-Savoie) - Guest house 'Bon Acceuil' - view on the Lake of Annecy

Petanque in Vauvert (Gard) - (drawing by C. Pelet)

From the series 'Les pétanqueurs' by Cédric Lucas

Poster of the petanque tournament Waz'Pétanque Cup in Wazemmes in May 2003 (Nord)

Sports holiday 'in a good shape'! Big kisses!

Avignon (Vaucluse) - The fortifications St-Michel (12th century)

Khourigba (Morocco) and its petanque champions

Brest (Finistère) - The Promenade Ajot and the entrance of the Castle

Vichy (Allier) - The sports performances of Yesterday

La Garde, near Toulon (Var) - Boule players during a tournament

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Petanque-app for android users

FInally there is a petanque-app for the android-users out there. And it is free. The perfect xmas-present perhaps?Full story

Top rated petanque postcards from our collection:

Petanque 600 meters underground!

Petanque is played 600 meters undergraound in the polish mines! THis is something you have never seen before!Full story

Get petanque-postcards in your twitter stream!

We have set up a system that will publish 2 new postcards to twitter every day from petanque.org. It will not work forever of course, in only 2,5 years we will start with re-runs of cards we have already previously published on Twitter . We do have a lot of petanque-postcards here.Full story

Have you looked at the postcards?

We have a very nice collection of postcards here on petanque.org, and all of them are about petanque of course. Currently we have more than 1750 postcards available for your enjoyment.Full story

Help us get de-spammed!

Google has all of a sudden decided that petanque.org is spam, and we need your help to prove otherwise. Please click the "google-plus" button or the "facebook"-like on the page to prove to the google-people that this is a real site built by real people!

We are now also on Facebook, who is by petanque.org standards a very new site. We started in 1996, around the time Mr.Zuckerberg was born.

If this does not help, we are planning to go to California and play petanque outside the googleplex until they fix this issue!

Building a Petanque Court in SE England

Having talked about it for years (especially during games in French holiday villas), I finally decided it was time for action and set about my own construction.
Andrew Pincott has sendt us this excellent guide on how to build a petanque-pisteFull story

Rules updated

We have updated the rules, they are here

There is an app for that! - BoulOmetre Petanque

Ever had problems measuring what boule is really the one that has the poin? Do not worry - now there is an app for that!Full story

Petanque-festival in Wrocław

Klub Sportowy „Petanka” Wrocław and Polska Federacja Petanque would like to invite you to Petanque Festival, which is taking place on 19th and 20th of May 2012 in Wrocław. On Saturday 19.05.2012 there is Centrope Cup tournament – triples and on Sunday 20.05.2012 there is Open Championship of Wrocław – doubles.Full story

Petanque in action - a photo series

Bent Toe from Sweden sent us a few photos of boule in actionFull story

The ultimate francophile boule-set

If you area true francophile you will need this. OBUT has in their wisdom created a "Tour de France" Boule set. Mais Oui! Full story

Rules regarding a broken boule?

We have received a question from South africa regarding the rules of boles that break during play. A new one for us, so we need your help.Full story

Pétanque - The greatest game you never heard of!

Byron Putman discovered petanque some two years ago and fell in love, head over heels. Then decided to analyze every angle of the game, including its development in the USA. He started clubs in Palm Springs, CA and in Lake Oswego, OR. And wrote a book about it, aptly named "Pétanque - The greatest game you never heard of!"Full story

Manifestation 1.000 Boules in the Netherlands

10 shooters, amongst one woman, were present at the finals of the manifestation 1.000 Boules in Nieuwegein (very near to Utrecht in the centre of the country) on Saturday night, the 29th of October 2011. Amongst the players there was also Philippe Quintais, the former French world champion (12 times!) who gave a demonstration at the end of the manifestation, visited by almost 400 spectators. All players had to shoot 100 boules within 10 minutes at a distance of 8 meters.
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Doping Agency Lifts Alcohol Ban for Pétanque

Devotees of pétanque will now be able to enjoy a glass of pastis before a match again: The World Anti-Doping Agency is to remove alcohol from its list of prohibited substances for competitions.Full story

South African pinball petanque

At Parkhurst Petanque in Johannesburg, we developed a new game called Petanque Pinball.Full story

UBK Studios needs your help!

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Rivonia Sports Club plays with ANC Youth League

Last night the regular boules (or petanque) players at the Rivonia Sports Club encountered over 1000 African National Congress Youth League (the ANC is the ruling party in South Africa)members who had congregated to register for their national general council at the sports club. The participants provided a noisy and crammed backdrop to our normal sedate afternoon's play.Full story

Pétanque tournament Documentary on the way

This year's Pétanque tournament in Amelia Island Florida is going to be documented by an independent film production group called UBKStudios. They are a group of low budget independent film makers from Chicago. They first learned about the game while traveling to Cannes France as part of the Cannes Film Festival. The short documentary about Pétanque, "Ludo", won an award for best Cinematography at the Real Ideas Studio Festival.Full story

Hand-painted Cochonnets

Carter Ingram from Novato, California has an excellent hobby: He makes haind-painted Cochonnets. Have a look, and think: Would you risk one of these babies by throwing a boule at it?Full story

The story of petanque.org

petanque.org is actually one of the oldest user-driven websites on the internet today. When we started up in 1997 there was no plan, it all started with a group of web-designers and programmers that enjoyed drinking beer at the local pub. However we realized that drinking beer was not a good excuse to leave home at any given time, we needed a better plan. Or just simply a plan. Full story

We know what's on your petanque mind

Every time you look at a webpage, the address of the page is remembered. Forever. And out most visited page in the last couple of months has not been about pastis, petanque, france or anything like that. Apparently you are all very interested in French fashion! And small furry animals..Full story

New book about Petanque

As an outstanding popular game, the game of boules had his hour of glory at the beginning of the 20th century, at the same time as the photographic postcard. Through these amazing and particularly live snapshots, Yves Moreau proposes to depict the history of the game of boules.Full story

Petanque Picture from Malaysia

Abu Seman Awang Besar from Malaysia has sendt us a pictureFull story

Petnaque Forum updated

After 10 years we have made some small changes to the forum. All postings are in one long list. So a full thread may be read without wearing out the button on your mouse. If there are any problems please tell us!
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Micro loans from petanque players.

We have put a new banner on petanque.org, for an organization called kiva. They make it possible for anyone to make a microloan ( a very small loan) to people in need. You do not give the money away, it is a loan. And we would like you to contribute!Full story