HOT NEWS! TOURNAMENT SUNDAY MARCH 28 IN AUSTIN TEXAS

Hello and welcome everyone. I am proud to announce on behalf of The heart of Texas petanque club our second annual tournament  on Sunday March 28  in Austin Texas at the French Legation Museum
802 San Marcos Street Austin, TX 78702. It is a doublette style tournament meaning team of two. Registration fee is $15 by person $10 for club members The tournament is open to everyone please have your team appoints a captain, who is responsible for registration, payment and communication. tournament start at 9.30 AM   Registration dateline 20 MARCH Please email or call arsene.dupin@gmail.com or 512 468 0957 for any questions See you here  A + LOVE Arsene

HOT NEWS! NEW MEMBERS SPOTLIGHT

Hello and welcome everyone!  It is that time of the year when we renew our membership to the world of Petanque and the time to welcome new players that love and support the game so meet Kimberly Kelzenberg.  She is an artist painting oils she as being painting since she was a child She was in France the past October and wished she could have played petanque while there She enjoy the challenge to be learning the sport  and learning from the best in Texas  Also meet Kelsey Strauch and Jules Mc Eroy- Schaeter. Two fantastic individual that only have being playing the game for a year and took it at heart  Acrobats and jugglers extraordinaire             A + LOVE Arsene

HOT NEWS !

Hello everyone and welcome    We are back in Austin TX just on time for my wedding anniversary and  to go play on a Wednesday at the French legation  Again  with kelsey and Jules, we had the great opportunity to go around the country doing shows and visiting petanque clubs. We spend time with the Biltmore Miami Petanque club and after we went to Amelia Island where we were welcome by Philippe Boets from petanque America  ( he as a tournament coming up March 27 Amelia island ) and the club members What a welcome  a  TV crew was there but most important players great players that came out of nowhere on a cold and windy  Monday afternoon  for Florida We played ,we laugh, we did some tourist things, we visited Philippe warehouse full of petanque balls and we even stayed over night with a great French  couple  by the bay Also in Miami we visited my extraordinary  friend DC Bhagavan Antle  www.tigerfriends.com I dont even know how to start talking about him Check out is website it is just amazing  Even more a like a miracle of what he can achieve with love with his  animals the picture speak by itself    A + LOVE Arsene

HOT NEWS ! ON THE ROAD AGAIN

HELLO AND WELCOME EVERYONE !  WELL WE HAD TO GO ON THE ROAD AGAIN TO DO SHOWS THIS TIME IN MIAMI AND LIKE ALWAYS THE FIRST THING I DO IS TO CHECK OUT THE LOCAL PETANQUE CLUB AND MIAMI IS NO EXCEPTION.    THEY HAVE A REALLY GOOD CLUB LOCATED AT THE HISTORIC  BILTMORE HOTEL  http://www.biltmorehotel.com/resort.php   THEY GATHER EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT AND THEY HAVE A TOURNAMENT.   WHAT A GREAT BUNCH OF PEOPLE FROM BEGINNERS TO PROFESSIONALS  THEY EVEN HAVE RAFFLE  FOR A FREE BRUNCH AT THE HOTEL FROM WHAT I UNDERSTOOD ONE OF THE OWNERS  IS FRENCH THAT IS WHY HE BUILT A PETANQUE COURT.     WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE SETTING.      THAT’S  THE PLACE TO PLAY ANYTIME YOU ARE IN MIAMI A + LOVE ARSENE

HOT NEWS ! JOYEUX NOEL

Hello and welcome everyone. The holidays are here so a lot more players have the opportunity to play, the other day on Sunday  at Pease park  about 27 of showed up and the weather was perfect we even had a Bûche_de_Noël  is a traditional dessert served during the Christmas holidays in France , Belgium, Quebec, Lebanon and several other Christian-populated francophone countries as well as in the UK. As the name indicates, the cake is generally prepared, presented, and garnished so as to look like a log ready for the fire. Pease park as being remodel a little so the grounds are was hard to play but the hardest it is the more we learn. All is well in the game of Petanque in Austin HAPPY HOLIDAYS A+ Love Arsene

HOT NEWS !

Hello and welcome everyone! Game day at the French legation, about 50 of were there. We had six pistes playing at once, so great to see so many people playing and having a good  time, you could hear the ooo and ah across the garden  all is well for the game of Petanque in Austin Texas A + LOVE Arsene 

HOT NEWS! all weather petanque

  Hello and welcome everyone. I was thinking it is time to show how the club is dedicated to the game and that not even hard  weather will stop us  A+ LOVE Arsene

HOT NEWS! HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Hello and welcome everyone and a Happy Thanksgiving.  On Wednesday about 14 of us got together at one point at the French legation  the weather was perfect.   The HOT banner came back from Florida so a few of us had the opportunity to take a picture,  keep on practicing.           A + LOVE Arsene

HOT NEWS !

  Hello everyone and welcome !  The club was represented for the first time in a big petanque tournament at Amelia island in Florida both teams did excellent Jeanne  and Drew and  Amine and Saïd, they got to see and play against some top champions from Canada and France What a great time and result for the club thank you for going there  A + LOVE Arsene

HOT NEWS!

Hello and welcome everyone. About 18 of us got together yesterday at the French legation in downtown Austin what a beautiful place to play at.  we had 4 new players showing up  Jim was one of them he had just returned  from France where he played in a local club there,we had Albert a retired french teacher it was his 75 years birthdayFrench legation Nov 4 Stephanie and Randy he celebrated playing petanque with us,we also had 2 special guests from the west coast Stephanie and Randy who had previously only played indoor petanque on the island of Hawaii but rapidly adapted to metal balls It was a perfect day A + LOVE Arsene