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Struth! Airlines gone to the dogs
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis wonders if Virgin Australia flights may soon start resembling aerial Noah’s Arks as we’re encouraged to take our pampered pets with us on holidays flights – and maybe even on the odd business trip as well. Because […]
Struth! Knocking off your hotel
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says an amazing 35% of hotel guests globally, admit they have more in their luggage when they leave their hotel, than when they entered it. The 2013 Hotel.com Amenities Survey asked 8,600 guests around the world if […]
Struth! Wine pays the perfect insult
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a recent trip to Africa found him facing a bottle of wine he discovered was labelled along the lines of comments less-kind colleagues have often made about his enjoyment of a pleasant drop or […]
Struth! NZ’s North Island fished out of the ocean
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says you may have to learn to do a bit of tongue-twisting when talking about a trip to New Zealand in the future. Because the country’s Geographic Board that’s responsible for naming everything from mountains […]
Struth! Weird questions to Australian travel agents
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis wonders what mind-pictures some people in the UK must have of us. Travel agents there have compiled a list of some of the weirder questions they’ve been asked by people thinking of visiting Australia, amongst […]
Struth! It’s a Small World After All, $8000 proves it.
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a disabled man who had to endure a non-stop half-hour of “It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All…” when the Small World ride broke down at California’s Disneyland, has been […]
Struth! Uranium tailplane a weighty problem
The first 747-100s carried depleted uranium in their tails IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says not many of us knew it, but we used to fly around the world in aircraft whose tailplanes carried big quantities of depleted uranium (DU). Because bizarrely […]
Struth! No such thing as a stupid question. Maybe.
Wales – definitely open in winter (wales.com) IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says travel agents get used to fielding some pretty oddball questions, and a recent survey amongst agents brought these pearlers to light: Are there any lakes in England’s Lakes District? […]
Struth! Family irate with Alex Cross
Movie still from the ‘violent’ crime thriller “Alex Cross” IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a flight from Denver to Baltimore in the United States was diverted to Chicago earlier this month after just an hour in flight, because a family complained […]
Struth! Thirteen police forces keep Jersey in control
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says the British Crown Dependency of Jersey in the English Channel has a population of 95,000 – and thirteen police forces. If it seems like it’s bureaucracy gone mad, it is because of a 13th century […]
