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‘Sampler’ sailings in Baltic
Romantics, old salts, and those looking for a different nautical experience can book ‘sampler’ sailing cruises on the replica clipper ship Star Flyer next year. Star Flyer will operate two four-night cruises in northern Europe: Amsterdam to Hamburg, and Hamburg to Ostend, Belgium. The May 5 off-the-beaten-track sailing from Amsterdam to Hamburg includes a seven-hour […]
‘Sampler’ sailings in Baltic
Romantics, old salts, and those looking for a different nautical experience can book ‘sampler’ sailing cruises on the replica clipper ship Star Flyer next year. Star Flyer will operate two four-night cruises in northern Europe: Amsterdam to Hamburg, and Hamburg to Ostend, Belgium. The May 5 off-the-beaten-track sailing from Amsterdam to Hamburg includes a seven-hour […]
Struth! Down a stubbie at Drinkastubbie Downs
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that his retired schoolteacher brother and wife found two sides of our approach to a cold drink on a hot day during a recent campervan adventure through the Outback and inland Australia. A couple of Canberra-ites, […]
RAISING A GLASS TO WINE’S ‘MR MICK’
David Ellis FOR South Australian winemaker Tim Adams, buying the Clare Valley’s historic old Leasingham Winery this month with wife and business partner Pam Goldsack was not so much a business decision, but a homecoming. Because it’s allowed him to achieve what so many starry-eyed young hopefuls dream of: from starting as a bottom-of-the-ladder […]
RAISING A GLASS TO WINE’S ‘MR MICK’
David Ellis FOR South Australian winemaker Tim Adams, buying the Clare Valley’s historic old Leasingham Winery this month with wife and business partner Pam Goldsack was not so much a business decision, but a homecoming. Because it’s allowed him to achieve what so many starry-eyed young hopefuls dream of: from starting as a bottom-of-the-ladder […]
RAILROADING THE KIDS’ INHERITANCE
David Ellis and John Rozentals IT may not have the mystique of Agatha Christie’s Orient Express, or require the week-long stamina of the Trans-Siberian, but there’s no doubting the status of Australia’s The Ghan as one of the world’s great rail journeys. Because this is an epic 54-hour transcontinental expedition covering almost 3000km […]
RAILROADING THE KIDS’ INHERITANCE
David Ellis and John Rozentals IT may not have the mystique of Agatha Christie’s Orient Express, or require the week-long stamina of the Trans-Siberian, but there’s no doubting the status of Australia’s The Ghan as one of the world’s great rail journeys. Because this is an epic 54-hour transcontinental expedition covering almost 3000km […]
ON TRACK PRESERVING OUR STEAMY PAST
David Ellis WHAT ever it is about trains that attracts people – and it seems the older the trains, the more the attraction – Trainworks has struck gold doing it with the largest rail museum in the Southern Hemisphere. And located at Thirlmere around just an hour’s drive southwest of Sydney’s CBD, it attracts 34,000 […]
ON TRACK PRESERVING OUR STEAMY PAST
David Ellis WHAT ever it is about trains that attracts people – and it seems the older the trains, the more the attraction – Trainworks has struck gold doing it with the largest rail museum in the Southern Hemisphere. And located at Thirlmere around just an hour’s drive southwest of Sydney’s CBD, it attracts 34,000 […]
CLEANING UP THE REAL ROBINSON CRUSOE
JUAN FERNANDEZ’ Robinson Crusoe Island ALEXANDER Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe’s) cave home for four years and four months STATUE of Alexander Selkirk in his home town of Lower Largo, Scotland DANIEL Defoe’s original book MODERN day Robinson Crusoe Islanders survive on small tourist trade and lobster fishing David Ellis WHEN a cantankerous, foul-mouthed seaman named Alexander […]
