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IN THE SWIM – WITH WHITE POINTERS
YOUR WEEKLY TRAVEL TIPS for week beginning December 10 2007 travellers good buys: with david ellis IN THE SWIM – WITH WHITE POINTERS FOR something really different in cruising, join adventure operatorNorth Star Cruises’ True North and go swimming in January withman-eating White Pointer sharks. Guests are lowered into the water ina metal cage in […]
A GOOD NOSE & GREAT LEGS…
WE always digress a little at this time of year to bring you our pick of some Christmas-stocking reading for a special someone into the enjoyment of wine. And if you’ve family or friends fit that category, don’t look past giving them The Art of Wine from the Vine to the Table – sub-titled “a […]
A GOOD NOSE & GREAT LEGS…
WE always digress a little at this time of year to bring you our pick of some Christmas-stocking reading for a special someone into the enjoyment of wine. And if you’ve family or friends fit that category, don’t look past giving them The Art of Wine from the Vine to the Table – sub-titled “a […]
TWO SUPERLINERS TO BE BASED HERE
YOUR WEEKLY TRAVEL TIPS for week beginning 3 December 2007 travellers good buys: with david ellis TWO SUPERLINERS TO BE BASED HERE NOT one, but two 77,000 tonne superliners are to be based in Australiato cater to a booming cruise market that’s grown 18 per cent in thepast year – twice the growth rate of […]
TWO SUPERLINERS TO BE BASED HERE
YOUR WEEKLY TRAVEL TIPS for week beginning 3 December 2007 travellers good buys: with david ellis TWO SUPERLINERS TO BE BASED HERE NOT one, but two 77,000 tonne superliners are to be based in Australiato cater to a booming cruise market that’s grown 18 per cent in thepast year – twice the growth rate of […]
WATERY WORLD OF BANGKOK’S KLONGS
WATERY WORLD OF BANGKOK’S KLONGS david ovens Aptly called “Venice of the East”, the Thai capital of Bangkok andits myriad waterways are a way of life for tens of thousands ofpeople and a community in many ways self-sufficient. The Chao Phraya river and its klongs are the real highways of Bangkokand provide visitors with the […]
WATERY WORLD OF BANGKOK’S KLONGS
WATERY WORLD OF BANGKOK’S KLONGS david ovens Aptly called “Venice of the East”, the Thai capital of Bangkok andits myriad waterways are a way of life for tens of thousands ofpeople and a community in many ways self-sufficient. The Chao Phraya river and its klongs are the real highways of Bangkokand provide visitors with the […]
I’ll take the high road …
High in the Garhwal Himalayas, Roderick Eime discovers two separate paths to Nirvana It seems every travel story about India dwells on the unavoidable; the conspicuous, elaborate monuments, the chaotic transport and road systems, the infectious spirituality, the poverty and the overwhelming crush of humanity in a country with five hundred times the population of […]
Palermo, the city of countless conquests and crossroad of cultures.
When the huge Costa Serena jostled for a berth in the busy summertime season in Sicily, it was clear Palermo was not just another big ship whistle stop. Roderick Eime revisits. I hadn’t been to Palermo for thirty years, and I’m pleased to report that very little has changed. Last time was as a student […]
RIVERBOATIN’ ON OL’ MAN RIVER
FOR WEEK BEGINNING 26 NOVEMBER 2007; RIVERBOATIN’ ON OL’ MAN RIVER david ellis The inventive Nicholas Roosevelt reckoned there had to be better waysof opening up the American inland than by staring at the rear-end of ahorse from a slow-rumbling buckboard, or even the new-fangled railwayhe’d heard about but had yet to reach his hometown […]
