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Blow in to world’s windiest pub
YOU’LL BE BLOWN AWAY AT TAN HILL INN David Ellis THERE’S probably little unusual about an English country publican, or one anywhere else for that matter, recounting tales of customers crawling through his doorway on hands and knees. What does make it unusual is those customers being on their hands and knees […]
London’s Secret Underground: The ‘Mail Rail’
READYING TO RIDE LONDON’S ‘SECRET TUBE’ David Ellis IT may be six years away, but train buffs are already beside themselves as they await the just-announced opportunity to ride part of a “secret section” of London’s vast subterranean rail system, one that operated for 22 hours a day, seven days a week… yet […]
Fine Dining on SeaDream: It’s a Czech mate.
KEEPING A CZECH ON 5-STAR DINING David Ellis with Malcolm Andrews CZECH-born Ondrej Havlicek gives whole new meaning to “being good on the tooth”. Because like so many youngsters finishing high school, he wasn’t quite sure just what direction he wanted his life to take him, and while tossing-up on a […]
The two men who created the myth of the Anzac
KEEPING THE MEMORY, TWO MEN OF ANZAC David Ellis AS thousands of Australians and New Zealanders descend on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula for Anzac Day, and millions at home and abroad honour the importance of the day, most likely few will give thought to two Australians whose quietly-played roles were so important in having […]
Bus leaps London’s Tower Bridge
BUS DRIVER’S TOWERING LEAP OF FAITH David Ellis AS evening began falling across London on December 30 1952, bus driver Albert Gunter most have wondered if he’d lapsed into a nightmare as he started driving his Number 78 bus across Tower Bridge straddling the River Thames. For the centre of the bridge […]
Spirit of Spitfire lives on
SPITFIRE PROVES ‘PERFECT’ WWII FIGHTER David Ellis EIGHTY years ago on an icy February morning in 1934, a small group of British aircraft chiefs and engineers huddled at the-then Eastleigh Aerodrome (now Southampton Airport,) to watch the first test flight of a new fighter aircraft they hoped would ensure Britain’s military superiority in the air […]
World’s most expensive – empty – airport.
GOING CHEAP – YOUR OWN $1.7B HOLIDAY AIRPORT David Ellis IF you think Qantas has problems, consider a whopping international airport in Spain that cost almost the equivalent of AU$1.7-billion to build in 2008, and although able to handle a mind-boggling 10-million passengers a year, hasn’t seen a single plane or passenger for over two […]
Muratie Wine Estate – an unusual love affair
FOR THE LOVE OF A SLAVE David Ellis BE they fact or fancy, countless seem the tales of romance that live on to be told over and again orally, in print, or on screens both large and small. The 12th century’s teacher-philosopher Abelard and his beautiful student Eloise, Shakespeare’s fanciful Romeo and Juliet, […]
Pet Friendly cruises on Cunard’s Queens
GOING WALKIES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC David Ellis WHEN super-luxury Queen Mary 2 that’s currently in our neck of the woods gets back to Southampton in a few weeks’ time, there’ll be one small group in particular waiting most-excitedly to go aboard the first of the very popular sailings she makes across the Atlantic between […]
Bowral Bradman Cricket Museum
THE Bradman Oval and Museum at Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands. BOWRAL MUSEUM PITCHES BRADMAN TO ALL AGES David Ellis DON Bradman 1948. FOR most of us, March the 5th will most likely be just another day, but for cricket tragics it’s one that will have them dusting off the record books, brushing-up on […]
