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ARMY OFFICERS SWAN IT UP AS PIONEER WINEMAKERS
David Ellis IT’S a safe bet that when three British Army officers who’d served together in India bought a farm block in the Swan Valley outside the fledgling township of Perth, they wouldn’t have realised that wine-lovers across Australia would be raising a toast to their venture in November of this year – 175 years […]
ARMY OFFICERS SWAN IT UP AS PIONEER WINEMAKERS
David Ellis IT’S a safe bet that when three British Army officers who’d served together in India bought a farm block in the Swan Valley outside the fledgling township of Perth, they wouldn’t have realised that wine-lovers across Australia would be raising a toast to their venture in November of this year – 175 years […]
WHAT TALES THESE HOTEL WALLS COULD TELL
David Ellis IF its walls could talk, what tales could they tell of the romantic encounters consummated within the centuries-old bosoms of Venice’s Hotel Danieli – a grand hostelry created by bringing together no less than three one-time, side-by-palaces. Few of us do not know of one of the most famous of these love stories, […]
WHAT TALES THESE HOTEL WALLS COULD TELL
David Ellis IF its walls could talk, what tales could they tell of the romantic encounters consummated within the centuries-old bosoms of Venice’s Hotel Danieli – a grand hostelry created by bringing together no less than three one-time, side-by-palaces. Few of us do not know of one of the most famous of these love stories, […]
TARANTULAS AND SNAKE WHISKY – THE DINING’S FINE
David Ellis TARANTULAS, crickets and a swig of snake whisky are now on the menu for the more culinary-adventurous during eight-day Mekong River cruises between Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City and Cambodia’s Siem Reap. But daring as they may appear, such “delicacies” are not actually part of the cuisine aboard the river ships AmaLotus and […]
TARANTULAS AND SNAKE WHISKY – THE DINING’S FINE
David Ellis TARANTULAS, crickets and a swig of snake whisky are now on the menu for the more culinary-adventurous during eight-day Mekong River cruises between Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City and Cambodia’s Siem Reap. But daring as they may appear, such “delicacies” are not actually part of the cuisine aboard the river ships AmaLotus and […]
HOW A SEADREAM SURVIVED SEPTEMBER 11
David Ellis & Malcolm Andrews NORWEGIAN entrepreneur and cruise industry heavyweight, Atle Brynestad was certain he was on a winner when he bought two small luxury cruise ships that Carnival Corporation no longer needed, and announced that he was going to refurbish and launch them as super-luxury in a “Yachting, Not Cruising” concept. The critics […]
HOW A SEADREAM SURVIVED SEPTEMBER 11
David Ellis & Malcolm Andrews NORWEGIAN entrepreneur and cruise industry heavyweight, Atle Brynestad was certain he was on a winner when he bought two small luxury cruise ships that Carnival Corporation no longer needed, and announced that he was going to refurbish and launch them as super-luxury in a “Yachting, Not Cruising” concept. The critics […]
Struth! Not ‘a-mused’ at NYC whistle stop
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that bellmen in New York’s ritzy hotels are up in arms over a City Council order to stop those at one of them from blowing their famous whistles to attract cabs for guests. For […]
Struth! Not ‘a-mused’ at NYC whistle stop
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that bellmen in New York’s ritzy hotels are up in arms over a City Council order to stop those at one of them from blowing their famous whistles to attract cabs for guests. For […]
