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A Move Upscale Sees Club Med Enter A New Era Of Success
Club Med’s chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Henri Giscard d’Estaing was in Sydney on Monday night to update the market on a significant programme of refurbishment underway in Asia Pacific. Since 2004 over $US51 million has been allocated to renovate Club Med resorts in Asia Pacific alone. Since taking the reins of […]
Cruise Weekly Comment: Fiji
Cruise Weekly – Comment by Roderick Eime My first trip to Fiji was as a nine-year-old aboard P&O’s Himalaya, so any return to the friendly islands is always a nostalgic affair and gives me a chance to compare progress over the years. My stay at the beautiful 5-star Radisson Resort Denarau Island reminded me that […]
Cruise Weekly Comment: Fiji
Cruise Weekly – Comment by Roderick Eime My first trip to Fiji was as a nine-year-old aboard P&O’s Himalaya, so any return to the friendly islands is always a nostalgic affair and gives me a chance to compare progress over the years. My stay at the beautiful 5-star Radisson Resort Denarau Island reminded me that […]
SAVE UP TO 50 PER CENT ON UNIQUE VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
Cruiseco has released a brochure of exclusive out-of-the-ordinary Northern Hemisphere cruises aboard the expedition ship Discovery in 2009, including discounts of up to fifty per cent for early bookings, special rates for singles in select cabin categories and included London stays and transfers with cruises starting in the UK. In all there are twenty-three cruise […]
SAVE UP TO 50 PER CENT ON UNIQUE VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
Cruiseco has released a brochure of exclusive out-of-the-ordinary Northern Hemisphere cruises aboard the expedition ship Discovery in 2009, including discounts of up to fifty per cent for early bookings, special rates for singles in select cabin categories and included London stays and transfers with cruises starting in the UK. In all there are twenty-three cruise […]
GRAZING TO GRAPES BRINGS SWIFT REWARDS
wine with david ellis BACK in 1996 when Jim and Ruth Swift turned 12ha of their historic farming and grazing property at Orange in NSW’s Central West over to wine grapes, the Orange Viticultural Region as we now know it had not even been defined. How quickly and how much things have changed, with Orange […]
GRAZING TO GRAPES BRINGS SWIFT REWARDS
wine with david ellis BACK in 1996 when Jim and Ruth Swift turned 12ha of their historic farming and grazing property at Orange in NSW’s Central West over to wine grapes, the Orange Viticultural Region as we now know it had not even been defined. How quickly and how much things have changed, with Orange […]
STAMPING A MARK ON JUNEAU’S HEART OF GOLD
david ellis WHEN mining engineer George Pilz heard in the 1880s of gold to be found in the mountains that tumbled down to the sea around what was to eventually become known as Alaska’s Inside Passage, he had no intention of hiking into such inhospitable terrain himself. Instead he sat back in his office and […]
STAMPING A MARK ON JUNEAU’S HEART OF GOLD
david ellis WHEN mining engineer George Pilz heard in the 1880s of gold to be found in the mountains that tumbled down to the sea around what was to eventually become known as Alaska’s Inside Passage, he had no intention of hiking into such inhospitable terrain himself. Instead he sat back in his office and […]
Budding actors take heed
Travel briefs w/c August 18 2008 TRAVEL BRIEFSBy John Crook Go fly a kiteCoolum, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, is the centre of action for kite flyers at the October 11-12 kite festival. Join kite flying mates from Canada, China, and New Zealand at what is becoming another Australian ‘big event’. Close handy to the event […]
