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Struth! GPS to Guide Delhi’s Rickshaws
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that drivers are up in arms, but passengers are delighted, with a decision by authorities in New Delhi to order that satellite navigation devices be fitted to all of the city’s 55,000 motorised rickshaws. It’s being […]
Struth! GPS to Guide Delhi’s Rickshaws
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that drivers are up in arms, but passengers are delighted, with a decision by authorities in New Delhi to order that satellite navigation devices be fitted to all of the city’s 55,000 motorised rickshaws. It’s being […]
Coral Princess releases Spring Specials of up to 25% on selected expeditions.
Australia and the South Pacific’s pioneer of small-ship expedition cruising Coral Princess Cruises is offering Spring Specials of between 15 and 25 per cent on September, October & November 2011 departures of their Kimberley Coast, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia expeditions aboard the state-of-art, 72 passenger small ship Oceanic Discoverer. The Kimberley wilderness of Western […]
Coral Princess releases Spring Specials of up to 25% on selected expeditions.
Australia and the South Pacific’s pioneer of small-ship expedition cruising Coral Princess Cruises is offering Spring Specials of between 15 and 25 per cent on September, October & November 2011 departures of their Kimberley Coast, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia expeditions aboard the state-of-art, 72 passenger small ship Oceanic Discoverer. The Kimberley wilderness of Western […]
Antarctica: Frozen Folly
A trip to East Antarctica is anything but a walk in the park. Our Adventure Cruise Guide editor follows gingerly in the footsteps of Sir Douglas Mawson. Words & Photos: Roderick Eime “Beyond the Roaring Forties there are the Furious Fifties and Shrieking Sixties, for the storms that ravage these regions become more and more […]
Antarctica: Frozen Folly
A trip to East Antarctica is anything but a walk in the park. Our Adventure Cruise Guide editor follows gingerly in the footsteps of Sir Douglas Mawson. Words & Photos: Roderick Eime “Beyond the Roaring Forties there are the Furious Fifties and Shrieking Sixties, for the storms that ravage these regions become more and more […]
Cruise ship sinks. Dozens missing
File picture of 50-year-old river vessel, Bulgaria AT least one person died and 97 were missing yesterday after a Soviet-era cruise ship sank on a Russian river. The ship carrying more than 180 people sank in a heavy storm on Russia’s Volga River, officials and witnesses have said. A total of 84 people were rescued […]
Cruise ship sinks. Dozens missing
File picture of 50-year-old river vessel, Bulgaria AT least one person died and 97 were missing yesterday after a Soviet-era cruise ship sank on a Russian river. The ship carrying more than 180 people sank in a heavy storm on Russia’s Volga River, officials and witnesses have said. A total of 84 people were rescued […]
Funeral Service for Otto Habsburg (1912-2011), son of the last Austrian Emperor
A great European passed away on 4 July 2011: Otto Habsburg-Lothringen, son of the last Austrian Emperor and Empress, Karl and Zita, passed away in his house in the Bavarian town of Pöcking. He was 98 years old. Otto Habsburg-Lothringen will be buried together with his wife Regina, who died in February 2010, in Vienna’s […]
Funeral Service for Otto Habsburg (1912-2011), son of the last Austrian Emperor
A great European passed away on 4 July 2011: Otto Habsburg-Lothringen, son of the last Austrian Emperor and Empress, Karl and Zita, passed away in his house in the Bavarian town of Pöcking. He was 98 years old. Otto Habsburg-Lothringen will be buried together with his wife Regina, who died in February 2010, in Vienna’s […]
