First German International Ladies Polo Tournament 2005

✎ Published: 2005-07-07 10:30:30

I attended the first German International Ladies Polo Tournament, enjoying a three-day stay at a restored 16th-century castle. The tournament featured intriguing conversations and delightful company, punctuated by memorable moments. Afterward, I traveled to Usedom to visit relatives. Additionally, the next Ladies Polo Tournament is set for Russia, offering another potential adventure.

First German International Ladies Polo Tournament 2005

I've been attending the first German International Ladies Polo Tournament last weekend. Yes I've been watching Polo, that game which looks like Golf on horseback, has a reputation like really dusty books and isn't actually known for it's gigantic pool of followers. There're quite some reasons why I, over the course of the last years, grew an interest in polo, mostly though because I live right next to a polo club.
The venue lasted over three days, and the lucky coincidence that the tournaments manager is a very good friend of mine allowed us to stay in a castle-hotel for free over these three days as the polo club paid the hotel for us.
The hotel was a totally restored castle from the 16th century which had been rebuild as to serve as a hotel about 8 years ago. The castle was surrounded by other related dark-age structures like stables or even cannons. Right in front of our room, that is directly visible through a big window, was a beautifull lake seizing the corn fields, reflecting the morning sun, drawing people and animals who wanted to enjoy the calm atmosphere. Especially in the morning, when mist still covered the lake in light layers, the view was more than awesome.
But back to polo itself. The tournament itself was nice, we had really intriguing conversations, met kind people and - which has to be stressed - got drunk with "ain't cheap bud" champagner.
On sunday (after recovering from a slight headdache, probably caused by an extraordinary amount of alcohol on the previous evening), we continued our journey to Usedom, a german island, in order to visit relatives of mine who own a little cottage there. However, I just figured that I'm really bad at writing travelogs, thus I'll stop here though not without concluding that it was a really awesome weekend - albeit I wasn't home before 3am just to get up for work again at 7am.
PS: The next Ladies Polo Tournament will be held in Russia, I wonder if I'll once again have the option to go there for free. That'd rock.