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Struth! Aussie Aussie Aussie .. almost
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis muses over P&O Cruises’ choice of ice-cream that it gave away to guests to celebrate Australia Day aboard it’s liner Pacific Pearl that was in Sydney Harbour to take part in several of the harbour’s big day […]
Struth! Hallstatt Austrian UNESCO village ‘Made in China’
Original in Austria (L) and the Chinese knock-off IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that the idea of Chinese take-away has been taken to new heights in the city of Huizhou that’s built a copy-cat of the Austrian village of Hallstatt, often […]
Struth! Pooch in Boots
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that while we’ve been stripping down for summer heatwaves, this pooch he came across in the little Italian village of Porto Venere late last year was happily ready for his country’s more wintry months. Visiting aboard […]
Struth! Shortest air route also world’s most expensive
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis wonders if Monaco’s Heli Air can claim to have the world’s smallest scheduled air service timetable – it has just one route, and that’s a mere 7-minutes between Monte Carlo in the Principality of Monaco, and Nice […]
Struth! Bottled History Resurfaces
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a beachcombing couple in New Zealand have miraculously saved a note in a bottle that’s been floating goodness-only-knows-where for the past three-quarters of a century… Geoff Flood and Leanne McAlees found the bottle on Ninety […]
STRUTH! Oktoberfest Carnage
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that if you thought patrons at this year’s Oktoberfest in Munich were pretty good at tossing down the amber stuff, they were anything than remiss when it came to getting stuck into the tucker as well. […]
Struth! Carnivore Carnage at Oktoberfest
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that if you thought patrons at this year’s Oktoberfest in Munich were pretty good at tossing down the amber stuff, they were anything than remiss when it came to getting stuck into the tucker as well. […]
Struth! Clam Coke an Open and Shucked Case
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that when US Customs and Border Protection officers at Washington Dulles International Airport did a random search of a bag belonging to a visitor from El Salvador, they didn’t quite expect what was inside. Because amongst […]
Struth! Holiday in a Box
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis warns: don’t tell Mr Rudd, but New Zealand has found a cheap and easy way of detaining a record number of prisoners it can’t fit into its over-crowded gaols. Its building inexpensive, transportable prisons out of old […]
STRUTH – All Bets are Off in Catalina’s Casino
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says that despite what The Four Preps assured us, Catalina Island is not twenty-six miles across the sea, but in fact 22-miles miles (which means its not forty kilometres in a leaky old boat, but […]
