ALL ABOARD WORLD’S LONGEST DAY TRIP

david ellis

ITS 4am and the alarm clock is going ape.

We tumble out of bed, shower, dress, and with hardly a word spoken, head for the Lido Restaurant where strong coffee may, just may, make us feel human.

Two hundred other hardy souls are already there, staring blankly at steaming coffee, or almost sullenly pushing scrambled eggs, pancakes and maple syrup around their plates. Few say much; a colleague mumbles “Morn’” as she stabs a fractious tomato that refuses to stay attached to her fork.

ENGINEERS SHOW THEIR INGENUITY, BRA NONE

ITS anyone’s guess how you explain to your wife that as a successful aircraft engineer you’ve been moved from building war planes to building the world’s first strapless bra for a busty Hollywood starlet named Jane Russell.

MUSEUM RAILROADS KIDS BIG AND SMALL

WE’re all kids at heart, and what kid – big or small – doesn’t like toy trains?

So next time you’re in the good ol’ U.S. of A, make it a must to take the family to San Diego in Southern California, don the train driver’s cap, and spend a captivating half day or more at what’s billed as “North America’s largest operating model railroad exhibit.”

CANADIAN INN SHOWS ITS SPIRIT

WITH the Americans lobbying cannon balls about them and the British and Canadian protectors of the besieged village of Newark in Ontario answering back with their own cannon and carbine, Captain Colin Swayze of the Canadian Militia decided it was no time for retreat, but one for red-blooded action.