New tours to Myanmar, Borneo, India, Bhutan and China Experienced boutique tour operator Footsteps in Asia (FIA) has added North Korea to its 2012/13 tour program covering 50 high value tours of Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam and other Asia hotspots. The 10-day North Korea tour provides an unforgettable insight into a remarkable […]
SAVINGS of nearly $5000 per person are now available on an 18-day fly/cruise to enjoy the coming Christmas and New Year aboard the super luxurious Seabourn Odyssey if you book quickly with ecruising.travel. The package, which now costs from $8099 per person twin share in a veranda suite, includes two nights in a Lanai room […]
SAVINGS of nearly $5000 per person are now available on an 18-day fly/cruise to enjoy the coming Christmas and New Year aboard the super luxurious Seabourn Odyssey if you book quickly with ecruising.travel. The package, which now costs from $8099 per person twin share in a veranda suite, includes two nights in a Lanai room […]
HARD to beat with party-roomoysters and other seafoods. Wc24Sep12 David Ellis WE missed seeing a Riesling under Julie Barry’s delightfully-named Good Catholic Girl label last year, but 2011’s vintage in South Australia’s Clare was one that could simply be summed-up as lousy, with above-average rainfall and the associated humidity-driven diseases that come with it. But […]
HARD to beat with party-roomoysters and other seafoods. Wc24Sep12 David Ellis WE missed seeing a Riesling under Julie Barry’s delightfully-named Good Catholic Girl label last year, but 2011’s vintage in South Australia’s Clare was one that could simply be summed-up as lousy, with above-average rainfall and the associated humidity-driven diseases that come with it. But […]
David Ellis TO ask whether the Andalusian town of Ronda in southern Spain is spectacular is somewhat akin to asking if Julia Roberts is a pretty woman. Famous 20th century Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke summed it up when he wrote: “I have sought everywhere the city of my dreams, and I have finally found […]
SPAIN’s Ronda: “Nothing more startling than this wild and mountainous city.” David Ellis . TO ask whether the Andalusian town of Ronda in southern Spain is spectacular is somewhat akin to asking if Julia Roberts is a pretty woman. Famous 20th century Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke summed it up when he wrote: “I have […]
David Ellis TO ask whether the Andalusian town of Ronda in southern Spain is spectacular is somewhat akin to asking if Julia Roberts is a pretty woman. Famous 20th century Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke summed it up when he wrote: “I have sought everywhere the city of my dreams, and I have finally found […]