We have a lot of information on the history of petanque, but just when we thought we had it all we got a series of pictures of the ancient Minoan sport played just outside the palace ruins of Kato Zakros in Crete.
The fact was , unfortunately, that it was just a couple of Frenchmen that had had it with summer, swimming, snorkling and tzatziki. All they wanted was a bit of petaqnue-action, but sadly their boules were back in good old France.
But a true petanque-player is not hampered by such a minor detail, and when you are right next-door to a Minoan palace the idea arrived - lets play it like the ancients, with stones.
The results:: Minoans 13 stones - france 0 Boules
Many years ago there was no way of getting your pictures online unless you knew someone with a homepage. Or you mailed them to petanque.org, and we'd put it on the web for you. But nowadays nobody does this thing anymore, there are thousands of ways to get your images online, and our pictures-section is about as dry as the sahara. So we have had to make some changes
Lars Refn was one of the founders of the Copenhagen Petanque Club in Denmark. He is also an illustrator, and has produces a vast number of t-shirts with petanque as the theme over the years.
A positive newsflash fron Chiltern - the young ones have started playing petanque!
We often get questions about when you are to old to play petanque. Some say 90, some 100 and some 120..
A report from Tim Truluck in Charente, France.
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