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Struth! It’s a dog’s life
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says pets are increasingly being treated to pampering in top-flight hotels that can range from caviar for dinner, to physiotherapy, massages, facials, mud baths and nutrition consultations. One European hotel already has part of its 5-star restaurant […]
Struth! Thanks a million – Bundanoon bands together
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that although it’s got a population of a little over 3000, the NSW Southern Highlands village of Bundanoon holds an annual event that’s the envy of many another when it comes to local charity, volunteer and […]
Struth! Cowboy’s tall tales
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that in October 1940 the world mourned the loss of silent movie star Tom Mix who died in bizarre circumstances in a car crash in Arizona. At one stage earning up to US$17,500 a week (about […]
Struth! Quantum of the Seas makes history – backwards
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says one of Germany’s biggest shipyards is an amazing 42km inland, so ships that have been built there since 1795 have had to make the long slow and winding journey all that way downriver through fields and […]
Struth! Great American Beer Festival a sell out
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that when tickets went on sale for last weekend’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado all 50,000 sold out in 30 minutes. In its 33rd year the Festival boasts of being the biggest celebration of […]
Struth! The world’s most expensive wobbly bridge
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that within hours of the Queen in June of 2000 officially opening the first bridge across London’s River Thames since the Tower Bridge in 1894, and naming it the London Millennium Bridge, locals had instantly […]
Struth! Is this the world’s most remote hotel?
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says those looking to a holiday on which to get away from it all should look no further than Spain’s El Hierro Island in the middle of the Atlantic – long considered “the end of the world” […]
Struth! Couldn’t swing a carafe in world’s smallest hotel.
WORLD’S smallest hotel and coffee shop in Copenhagen’strendy Stronget district. (Matthew James Harrison) IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says owners of Copenhagen’s smallest coffee shop have now had their second venture recognised by the Guinness Book of Records – a hotel that’s […]
Struth! Serious monkey trouble bites Delhi
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says young actors who’ve played the part of feisty langur monkeys in village stage shows in India, are being retained by the government to play make-believe langurs in capital New Delhi to scare-off red-faced macaque monkeys that […]
STRUTH! Annie get your gun
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says it’s 154 years this month since Phoebe Ann Moses was born in Darke County, Ohio, going on to become one of the most popular entertainers of 19th and 20th century America. Who, you are likely asking? […]
