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STEEL YOURSELF FOR YOUR ISLAND IN THE SUN

STEEL YOURSELF FOR YOUR ISLAND IN THE SUN

FOR WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 29 2012; PHOTO CAPTIONS AT END OF ITEM David Ellis with Malcolm Andrews WE want someone to pinch us, just to know we’ve not died and gone to heaven. We’re gazing across from breakfast on the deck of our little 4,300-tonne motor-cruiser to a minute speck of land called Mayreau in […]

Virgin Australia/Etihad boost baggage allowance

Virgin Australia and Etihad move to 30kg luggage allowance Virgin Australia and Etihad have just announced a 7kg increase in the complimentary baggage allowance offered to Economy class passengers, with passengers able to have 30kg of checked luggage on flights from Australia to Abu Dhabi and beyond. The move also includes larger allowances for members […]

Virgin Australia/Etihad boost baggage allowance

Virgin Australia and Etihad move to 30kg luggage allowance Virgin Australia and Etihad have just announced a 7kg increase in the complimentary baggage allowance offered to Economy class passengers, with passengers able to have 30kg of checked luggage on flights from Australia to Abu Dhabi and beyond. The move also includes larger allowances for members […]

Get Back to Bokissa

Get Back to Bokissa

We’ve made a few changes at Bokissa, but we haven’t changed everything… the essence that is Bokissa Island Resort is still the same…. we’re still the same barefoot, casual Bokissa we’ve always been. 5 Night OfferBeachfront Fale. Includes accommodation for 2 persons (double), breakfast, lunch and dinner daily and transfers from Santo airport to Bokissa […]

Get Back to Bokissa

Get Back to Bokissa

We’ve made a few changes at Bokissa, but we haven’t changed everything… the essence that is Bokissa Island Resort is still the same…. we’re still the same barefoot, casual Bokissa we’ve always been. 5 Night OfferBeachfront Fale. Includes accommodation for 2 persons (double), breakfast, lunch and dinner daily and transfers from Santo airport to Bokissa […]

New website for Coral Princess Cruises

New website for Coral Princess Cruises

CRUISECO ADVENTURER’S INAUGURAL SAIL

CRUISECO ADVENTURER’S INAUGURAL SAIL

Cruiseco, the leading provider of cruising options in Australia and New Zealand, is launching its first custom-built luxury ship, the Cruiseco Adventurer, on 30th October from Saigon. Steve Lloyd, Chief Executive Officer at Cruiseco, says this is an exciting development and marks a groundbreaking step for the company in sailing its own ships. “We are […]

Ocean Magazine – Ocean Cruising – Issue 46

Open publication Feature: One Ocean NW Passage. News mentions: SeaDream, Orion, APT, Coral Princess

Struth! Worm your way to world champion

Struth! Worm your way to world champion

IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says hundreds of people with obviously little better to do, descend on the English village of Willaston in Cheshire every July for the World Worm Charming Championships. The idea is to lure as many worms as possible […]

EVER EVOLVING, NEIL’S BIN THERE, DONE THAT

EVER EVOLVING, NEIL’S BIN THERE, DONE THAT

Wc05NOV12 IDEAL with a simple chicken casseroleor quickly grilled white-fleshed fish. David Ellis WHEN you’ve been making wine in the Hunter Valley for 140 years or more and are simply continuing to grow – expanding into such other regions as the Barossa Valley, Coonawarra, Adelaide Hills and Eden Valley to name just a few  – […]