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World Title Surfing Competition Returns to Fiji

Fiji has just experienced one of the biggest swells of the last twenty years, at the legendary Cloudbreak –  a permanent six-metre wave found offshore at Tavarua.  Professional and Big Wave surfers from all over the world flew in to experience what is recognized as one of the most perfect waves on the planet. So […]

World Title Surfing Competition Returns to Fiji

Fiji has just experienced one of the biggest swells of the last twenty years, at the legendary Cloudbreak –  a permanent six-metre wave found offshore at Tavarua.  Professional and Big Wave surfers from all over the world flew in to experience what is recognized as one of the most perfect waves on the planet. So […]

World Title Surfing Competition Returns to Fiji

Fiji has just experienced one of the biggest swells of the last twenty years, at the legendary Cloudbreak –  a permanent six-metre wave found offshore at Tavarua.  Professional and Big Wave surfers from all over the world flew in to experience what is recognized as one of the most perfect waves on the planet. So […]

THOUGHTS OF ROMANCE A WILD CALAMITY

THOUGHTS OF ROMANCE A WILD CALAMITY

david ellis   STUDENTS of America’s Wild West are as mystified today as ever they were about the real relationship between two of the most-opposite characters to walk the boardwalks together of legendary Deadwood – the suave former lawman Wild Bill Hickok and part-time hooker and some-time drinking mate, Martha Jane Burke, better known to […]

Struth! Cruising to Mars – out of this world shopping at Harrods

Struth! Cruising to Mars – out of this world shopping at Harrods

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that not content with an-already 1.2 million items for sale in its 330 departments, London’s Harrod’s department store now has something totally new for its most-discerning inner-CBD customers – multi-million pound super-yachts. The store’s built a […]

Struth! Cruising to Mars – out of this world shopping at Harrods

Struth! Cruising to Mars – out of this world shopping at Harrods

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that not content with an-already 1.2 million items for sale in its 330 departments, London’s Harrod’s department store now has something totally new for its most-discerning inner-CBD customers – multi-million pound super-yachts. The store’s built a […]

THE ARMAGH REMAINS A CLASSIC, TO BE SURE

THE ARMAGH REMAINS A CLASSIC, TO BE SURE

Wc08Aug11 VERY special occasion– you’ll certainly not be disappointed. David Ellis WHILE wine has been flowing in the Clare Valley since 1851, just two years after the first settlers arrived there from Ireland in 1849, production from the region is still just 1.5% of Australia’s total wine output. But what wines some of these are, […]

THE ARMAGH REMAINS A CLASSIC, TO BE SURE

THE ARMAGH REMAINS A CLASSIC, TO BE SURE

Wc08Aug11 VERY special occasion– you’ll certainly not be disappointed. David Ellis WHILE wine has been flowing in the Clare Valley since 1851, just two years after the first settlers arrived there from Ireland in 1849, production from the region is still just 1.5% of Australia’s total wine output. But what wines some of these are, […]

Australian Business Travellers – Not So Keen To Be Green (If It Costs) Despite Having Largest Travel Budgets in Asia Pacific

Business travel research highlights differences between corporate ‘road-warriors’ from eight Asia Pacific countries Australia might portray itself internationally as a leader in environmental commitment, but a new business travel survey shows that if this translates into paying extra to stay in an environmentally-sensitive hotel, Australian corporate road-warriors appear to be more mean than green. The […]

Australian Business Travellers – Not So Keen To Be Green (If It Costs) Despite Having Largest Travel Budgets in Asia Pacific

Business travel research highlights differences between corporate ‘road-warriors’ from eight Asia Pacific countries Australia might portray itself internationally as a leader in environmental commitment, but a new business travel survey shows that if this translates into paying extra to stay in an environmentally-sensitive hotel, Australian corporate road-warriors appear to be more mean than green. The […]