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Bokissa Private Island Resort: IDYLLIC LIFE OF AN ACCIDENTAL ISLANDER
David Ellis PSSST! Wanna buy a South Pacific island? One that’s just three hours or so from Brisbane, with a little resort tucked into a thumbnail of its 72ha (180 acres) – and rated by TV’s Getaway travel program “one of the 50 best hotels in the world?” Your island in the sun on which […]
Bokissa Private Island Resort: IDYLLIC LIFE OF AN ACCIDENTAL ISLANDER
David Ellis PSSST! Wanna buy a South Pacific island? One that’s just three hours or so from Brisbane, with a little resort tucked into a thumbnail of its 72ha (180 acres) – and rated by TV’s Getaway travel program “one of the 50 best hotels in the world?” Your island in the sun on which […]
America’s Bizarre Cold War Secret Hideout
David Ellis GUESTS staying at America’s oldest and most luxurious resort during the Cold War era from the 1960s to ’90s, had no idea they were cavorting above a bizarre subterranean world that could have come straight out of James Bond, the fertile mind of Graham Greene, Hollywood’s Dr Strangelove or maybe even TV’s M*A*S*H. […]
America’s Bizarre Cold War Secret Hideout
David Ellis GUESTS staying at America’s oldest and most luxurious resort during the Cold War era from the 1960s to ’90s, had no idea they were cavorting above a bizarre subterranean world that could have come straight out of James Bond, the fertile mind of Graham Greene, Hollywood’s Dr Strangelove or maybe even TV’s M*A*S*H. […]
America’s Bizarre Cold War Secret Hideout
David Ellis GUESTS staying at America’s oldest and most luxurious resort during the Cold War era from the 1960s to ’90s, had no idea they were cavorting above a bizarre subterranean world that could have come straight out of James Bond, the fertile mind of Graham Greene, Hollywood’s Dr Strangelove or maybe even TV’s M*A*S*H. […]
DOING IT RIGHT – BARGING INTO LIFE’S LUXURIES
David Ellis AFTER taking part in the Allies’ D-Day landing in Normandy in 1944, the little one-time grain-barge-cum-troop-carrier Etoile de Champagne returned to her homeland Belgium – but instead of a heroes welcome she was ignominiously driven into a river shallows and scuttled to prevent her falling into German hands. There she lay partly-submerged for […]
DOING IT RIGHT – BARGING INTO LIFE’S LUXURIES
David Ellis AFTER taking part in the Allies’ D-Day landing in Normandy in 1944, the little one-time grain-barge-cum-troop-carrier Etoile de Champagne returned to her homeland Belgium – but instead of a heroes welcome she was ignominiously driven into a river shallows and scuttled to prevent her falling into German hands. There she lay partly-submerged for […]
DOING IT RIGHT – BARGING INTO LIFE’S LUXURIES
David Ellis AFTER taking part in the Allies’ D-Day landing in Normandy in 1944, the little one-time grain-barge-cum-troop-carrier Etoile de Champagne returned to her homeland Belgium – but instead of a heroes welcome she was ignominiously driven into a river shallows and scuttled to prevent her falling into German hands. There she lay partly-submerged for […]
Struth! Whisky decanter of the stars
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says if you are heading to the UK and want to pick up a really nice decanter of a truly good whisky for that special someone you’re catching up with, drop into London’s Luxury Beverage Company and […]
MV Princess Danae arrested and released over unpaid fuel bill
The Dublin High Court has ordered the arrest and detention of a cruise ship that arrived in the Irish city last month. The 1955-built MV Princess Danae, which has a capacity to carry more than 800 passengers and crew, has been detained arising out of an alleged failure by its owners to pay an outstanding […]
