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Dont blow it under tough new French drink driving laws
SELF-drive holidays specialists, DriveAway Holidays has a novel surprise in glove-boxes for clients collecting one of their rental or long-term lease cars, people-movers or motorhomes when visiting or driving into France – two disposable breath-test kits. It’s because from 1 July 2012 France has made it compulsory for all vehicles to have a breath test […]
Struth! Mount Titlis Cliff Walk – Don’t look down
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a must-do for those with steely nerves is to take a walk on Switzerland’s new Mount Titlis Cliff Walk – billed as Europe’s highest suspension bridge and most-certainly one of the world’s scariest. Stretching almost 100m […]
Saving on Helen Wong’s Tours China Wonders
The ancient Army of the Terracotta Warriors, China’s find of the 20th Century, is one of a host of highlights on Helen Wong’s Tours’ discounted series of China Wonders group tours.Priced from $3380 per person, twin share from Australia, the 14-day tour also includes visits to bustling Shanghai, the canal cities and towns of Suzhou, […]
Saving on Helen Wong’s Tours China Wonders
The ancient Army of the Terracotta Warriors, China’s find of the 20th Century, is one of a host of highlights on Helen Wong’s Tours’ discounted series of China Wonders group tours. Priced from $3380 per person, twin share from Australia, the 14-day tour also includes visits to bustling Shanghai, the canal cities and towns of […]
Another small ship runs aground
ms Marco Polo A Cruise & Maritime Voyages ship ran aground in a remote Norwegian fjord north of the Arctic Circle last night, suffering damage to its hull. The 22,080-ton, 800-passenger Marco Polo was leaving Sortland, Norway, under the command of a local pilot when the ship struck a previously uncharted rock. No injuries were […]
APT MS Caledonian Sky – Transportation to van Diemans Land
MS Caledonian Sky at anchor in Coles Bay, Tasmania Roderick Eime “Sit down now!” “Don’t step onto the boat until you are told to do so!” “Give me both hands first!” Such are our stern orders as we prepare to go ashore at Maria Island, one of Tasmania’s gruesome penal sites off the east coast […]
Adventures through Greenland’s icy seas
“ICEBERG dead ahead.” Once a feared encounter on the high seas, tourists now clamber to see these mighty menaces. With that alert from the bridge, passengers abandon their champagne and hors d’oeuvres and scramble like startled children from the dining room, nearly knocking our waistcoated stewards over in the rush. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/holiday-ideas/adventures-amid-greenlands-ice/story-e6frfqf9-1226593001351#ixzz2NDaCLHfv
Kawah Ijen. Worst job in the world?
Kawah Ijen, 2,799m. East Java. By Michael Travers Antok has a hernia. He has dropped his basket of sulphur and sits against a rock on the mountain path. “Obat, obat – medicine, medicine,” he calls as he clutches his stomach in obvious agony. We have nothing but cameras, passports and crackers. I give him my […]
MSC Cruises has a hot Caribbean cruise
HOT for 2013-2014 is a series of Western Caribbean cruises aboard the new MSC Divina, prices starting from $699 per person, twin share. Book a seven-night cruise of the Eastern Mediterranean, also on the MSC Divina, and prices begin at $719pp, twin share. And for cruise fans who want to merge the two for a […]
MSC Cruises has a hot Caribbean cruise
HOT for 2013-2014 is a series of Western Caribbean cruises aboard the new MSC Divina, prices starting from $699 per person, twin share. Book a seven-night cruise of the Eastern Mediterranean, also on the MSC Divina, and prices begin at $719pp, twin share. And for cruise fans who want to merge the two for a […]
