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Love is in the air with the Fiji Airways wedding flight – departing 7 August
Got any family members or friends ‘across the ditch’ newly engaged and wanting to share the love? Now then can by tying the knot in front of a plane-load of people at 40,000ft! A new campaign launching in New Zealand sees Fiji Airways (formerly Air Pacific) on the lookout for five Kiwi couples from across […]
Sea Temple Surfers Paradise named the best hotel in Australia by Expedia
Expedia 2013 Insiders’ Select rankings reveals Sea Temple is number 1 It has been open for just under two years, but already the Sea Temple Surfers Paradise has been named the best hotel in Australia. The achievement, revealed in Expedia’s 2013 Insiders’ Select rankings, was the result of more than a million […]
Cathay Pacific special fares top China
Travel to China with special fares for the kids and grandparents Looking for a great value family holiday? You can take the whole family on an overseas trip to China for less with Cathay Pacific’s China Mid-Autumn Festival sale. If you book through your travel agent, not only will the kids pay just 10%^ […]
Cathay Pacific special fares top China
Travel to China with special fares for the kids and grandparents Looking for a great value family holiday? You can take the whole family on an overseas trip to China for less with Cathay Pacific’s China Mid-Autumn Festival sale. If you book through your travel agent, not only will the kids pay just 10%^ of […]
Double Royal Caribbean Cruise, Hawaii and the Pacific
ESCAPE the winter chill with this fantastic last minute offer on a 35-night back-to-back Royal Caribbean cruise around Hawaii and the Pacific now on sale from only $4599 per person twin share through cruise specialist ecruising.travel when you book by August 2. The first voyage departs Vancouver on September 6 on the Rhapsody of the Seas […]
Double Royal Caribbean Cruise, Hawaii and the Pacific
ESCAPE the winter chill with this fantastic last minute offer on a 35-night back-to-back Royal Caribbean cruise around Hawaii and the Pacific now on sale from only $4599 per person twin share through cruise specialist ecruising.travel when you book by August 2. The first voyage departs Vancouver on September 6 on the Rhapsody of the Seas […]
The search for Frank and the Bowen Catalina memorial
Who’s Frank? Who’s Frank? is the question on everyone’s lips in the small town of Bowen, in the Whitsundays, North Queensland.The first ever Bowen Catalina Memorial event (to be held on 17 August 2013) will commemorate the loss of the Catalina A24-24 and the 14 lives lost in the crash off the coast of Bowen […]
Struth! Cape Town’s bridge to nowhere
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says South Africa’s Cape Town may finally see the completion of a 14km elevated freeway that was started in the 1970s to both ease inner-city traffic congestion, and to give a speedy crossing from the inland suburbs […]
NICE REWARD FROM AN UNUSUAL TASSIE BLEND
Wc22Jul13 TASSIE tempter worth the extra freightcosts (enjoy with a hearty beef stroganoff.) David Ellis WE don’t often get the opportunity to try wines out of Tasmania, and when offered not only a Tassie drop but one that was a quite unusual blend too, we jumped at it. And how surprisingly rewarded we were. Grey […]
Cliveden House: Waldorf astonishes Queen Victoria
WEALTHY AMERICAN RATTLES UK’S HIGH SOCIETY David Ellis AMERICA’S then-wealthiest man, William Waldorf Astor had England’s high society in an absolute tizz back in 1893 when he had the audacity to buy his way into their ranks by paying US$1.25m for the Duke of Westminster’s grand Cliveden House on the River Thames in Buckinghamshire. And […]
