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The Classic Safari Company offers a Kenyan Classic – a traditional mobile camping safari.

The Classic Safari Company has just released an exclusive ten day itinerary with fourth generation Kenyan, Hamish Grant, owner of Grant & Cameron Safaris.   To celebrate this event, Hamish Grant and Kieran Barnard, a professional safari guide, will be visiting Sydney to present their journey to the more discerning safari enthusiast.  Grant grew up on […]

Michael Palin: On The Road Again

Michael Palin: On The Road Again

In these days of Twitter and Facebook and instant messaging, a gap of nine months between website messages seems positively Neanderthal, so I apologise. It’s not that I take a long time to type, it’s just that I haven’t been zooming around the world with my normal regularity. Until last month that is, when, in […]

Michael Palin: On The Road Again

Michael Palin: On The Road Again

In these days of Twitter and Facebook and instant messaging, a gap of nine months between website messages seems positively Neanderthal, so I apologise. It’s not that I take a long time to type, it’s just that I haven’t been zooming around the world with my normal regularity. Until last month that is, when, in […]

Cruise Weekly: All time high for Aussie cruise industry

 There was a huge 27% growth in Australian cruise passenger numbers last year, according to International Cruise Council Australasia figures just released. A total of 466,692 Aussies took a cruise holiday in 2010 – up 100,000 on the previous year, representing the largest hike in passenger numbers since statistics began being compiled nine years ago. ICCA […]

Cruise Weekly: All time high for Aussie cruise industry

 There was a huge 27% growth in Australian cruise passenger numbers last year, according to International Cruise Council Australasia figures just released. A total of 466,692 Aussies took a cruise holiday in 2010 – up 100,000 on the previous year, representing the largest hike in passenger numbers since statistics began being compiled nine years ago. ICCA […]

HOTEL IS ALL A MATTER OF IMPRESSIONS

HOTEL IS ALL A MATTER OF IMPRESSIONS

  David Ellis       IT’S not every day you check into a big-name resort and find that the lady at the Front Desk is a Director.       Or when you go for a well-earned drink in the bar, you’re served by a Director there too – and when its time for […]

HOTEL IS ALL A MATTER OF IMPRESSIONS

HOTEL IS ALL A MATTER OF IMPRESSIONS

  David Ellis       IT’S not every day you check into a big-name resort and find that the lady at the Front Desk is a Director.       Or when you go for a well-earned drink in the bar, you’re served by a Director there too – and when its time for […]

STRUTH! Derailed Flyer up for grabs

STRUTH! Derailed Flyer up for grabs

  STRUTH !       IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that if you’ve always wanted your own steam train, there’s one for sale in New Zealand complete with steam engine, two passenger carriages, a kitchen van, 14km of track, two stations, and […]

STRUTH! Derailed Flyer up for grabs

STRUTH! Derailed Flyer up for grabs

  STRUTH !       IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that if you’ve always wanted your own steam train, there’s one for sale in New Zealand complete with steam engine, two passenger carriages, a kitchen van, 14km of track, two stations, and […]

RICH IN HISTORY, BUT NOT FOR THE CELLAR

RICH IN HISTORY, BUT NOT FOR THE CELLAR

IDEAL partner with your favouritepastas and creamy sauces. Wc04Apr11 David Ellis ANDREW Margan won’t be the least offended if you don’t even think of the word ‘cellar’ when buying a bottle of his 2010 Margan Hunter Valley Verdelho. Because this is a more-ish wine that once you’ve enjoyed the first bottle you’ll be looking for […]