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The Henry Jones Art Hotel Claim Australia’s Best Young Chefs
The Henry Jones Art Hotel is celebrating the success of two of its young chefs, who were this week named winners of the Nestle Golden Chef’s Hat Award. Hobart chefs Libby Green and Daniel Garwood, who work in Henry’s Kitchen, were awarded two gold and one silver medal for three courses of decadent delights they […]
The Henry Jones Art Hotel Claim Australia’s Best Young Chefs
The Henry Jones Art Hotel is celebrating the success of two of its young chefs, who were this week named winners of the Nestle Golden Chef’s Hat Award. Hobart chefs Libby Green and Daniel Garwood, who work in Henry’s Kitchen, were awarded two gold and one silver medal for three courses of decadent delights they […]
Struth! United we stand
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says United Airlines, America’s second largest carrier, is licking its wounds after accidentally giving away hundreds – or possibly even more – air tickets by mistake last Thursday.Social media went into overdrive when intending passengers booking flights […]
PETER’S PASSION FOR THE AUSSIE PRODUCT
Wc16Sep13 David Ellis PETER Logan is a passionate Aussie, and the more-so when it comes to the product of our own home-grown wineries, because as he says, “with some of the most interesting, excellent value, and even quirkiest wines around, why go looking abroad for something to stand out from the crowd?” His own Logan […]
Tolmer’s Tale: Saving Adelaide from ruin
ALEXANDER TOLMER’s BOTTLER OF A TALE David Ellis STRANGE as it may sound, Adelaide as we know it today may well have never come about had it not been for the achievements in the 1850s of a resourceful Police Commissioner who not only saved the city from bankruptcy, but also the potential abandonment […]
&Beyond offer free SA domestic fly drive transfers to Phinda Mountain or Forest Lodge
&Beyond’s family friendly Phinda Mountain Lodge or romantic and secluded Phinda Forest Lodge are renowned for Cheetah and Black rhino sightings. When you stay for three nights at either lodge, &Beyond will host your return transport from Johannesburg, via Richards Bay, or Durban for free until 31 December 2013. At Phinda you can encounter predators […]
&Beyond offer free SA domestic fly drive transfers to Phinda Mountain or Forest Lodge
&Beyond’s family friendly Phinda Mountain Lodge or romantic and secluded Phinda Forest Lodge are renowned for Cheetah and Black rhino sightings. When you stay for three nights at either lodge, &Beyond will host your return transport from Johannesburg, via Richards Bay, or Durban for free until 31 December 2013. At Phinda you can encounter predators […]
The resort that never opened: Sheraton Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Around the world there are numerous tales of failed hotel projects, but in the South Pacific at least, this is a celebrated case. If ‘celebrated’ is the right word. Some say the grounds are cursed. (c) Roderick Eime The project was kicked off by a shady Italian who managed to enlist numerous backers. He seduced […]
The resort that never opened: Sheraton Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Around the world there are numerous tales of failed hotel projects, but in the South Pacific at least, this is a celebrated case. If ‘celebrated’ is the right word. (c) Roderick Eime The project was kicked off by a shady Italian who managed to enlist numerous backers. He seduced the tiny island nation of the […]
Deserted Places: Hotels and Resorts
Travelling around the world I sometimes encounter these forlorn structures. Some were once bursting with life and history, others were never even opened and abandoned before seeing their first guests. Ryu-Gyong Hotel (markpanama)
