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Aurora Antarctica 2012/13 brochure out now
Antarctica 2012/2013 10% early bird discount, book today!* Aurora Expeditions are delighted to release their 2012/2013 Antarctica brochure.With increased capacity, this season is set to be our biggest and best yet! NEW FOR 2012/2013 * Choice of two ships – Polar Pioneer & Akademik Shokalskiy […]
Aurora Antarctica 2012/13 brochure out now
Antarctica 2012/2013 10% early bird discount, book today!* Aurora Expeditions are delighted to release their 2012/2013 Antarctica brochure.With increased capacity, this season is set to be our biggest and best yet! NEW FOR 2012/2013 * Choice of two ships – Polar Pioneer & Akademik Shokalskiy […]
STRUTH! Oktoberfest Carnage
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that if you thought patrons at this year’s Oktoberfest in Munich were pretty good at tossing down the amber stuff, they were anything than remiss when it came to getting stuck into the tucker as well. […]
PRISON-BREAK EARNS CONVICT A PARDON
David Ellis OUR early colonial governors usually gave convicts a ticket of leave as a reward for good behaviour, not one for breaking out of prison. But such was the case with notorious Western Australia bushranger and serial jail-breaker, Joseph “Moondyne Joe” Johns. Joe earned himself ten-years in England for stealing some bread, bacon and […]
PRISON-BREAK EARNS CONVICT A PARDON
David Ellis OUR early colonial governors usually gave convicts a ticket of leave as a reward for good behaviour, not one for breaking out of prison. But such was the case with notorious Western Australia bushranger and serial jail-breaker, Joseph “Moondyne Joe” Johns. Joe earned himself ten-years in England for stealing some bread, bacon and […]
FLOODING RAINS BRING OUT THE INNOVATIVE
SEAFOODS and poultry go particularlywell with this Sauvignon Blanc. Wc17Oct11 David Ellis THE 2011 vintage in South-eastern Australia can best be summed up in three words, wet, wet, wet, with some vineyards totally inundated by flood waters, areas reporting rains of six or eight times their normal for summer – and still others drenched with […]
FLOODING RAINS BRING OUT THE INNOVATIVE
SEAFOODS and poultry go particularlywell with this Sauvignon Blanc. Wc17Oct11 David Ellis THE 2011 vintage in South-eastern Australia can best be summed up in three words, wet, wet, wet, with some vineyards totally inundated by flood waters, areas reporting rains of six or eight times their normal for summer – and still others drenched with […]
TROOPSHIP’S DEATH A MINEFIELD OF STUPIDITY
David Ellis WITH increasing Japanese activity in the South Pacific in late 1942, America had urgent need to bolster its base on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu,) where it was readying for a massive assault on Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal. And the quickest way to get its troops there was to […]
TROOPSHIP’S DEATH A MINEFIELD OF STUPIDITY
David Ellis WITH increasing Japanese activity in the South Pacific in late 1942, America had urgent need to bolster its base on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu,) where it was readying for a massive assault on Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal. And the quickest way to get its troops there was to […]
Struth! Jersey cops by the dozen
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says the British Crown Dependency of Jersey in the English Channel has a population of 95,000 – and an amazing thirteen police forces. It’s because of a custom that goes back to the 13th century when the […]
