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New Russian Airliner Disappears – Crash suspected
File image of the new Russian-built Sukhoi Superjet-100 A new Russian-made civilian plane carrying 50 people went missing in Indonesia yesterday during a demonstration flight for potential buyers and journalists. Search and rescue teams were heading to the mountainous area just south of Jakarta, but bad weather forced two helicopters to turn back. The Sukhoi […]
Mississippi Paddlewheel Revival
The big red paddlewheel is turning. Crowds rush to the riverbanks of small towns to whoop and wave. In the pilot house, Capt. John Sutton lowers the twin stacks so American Queen can pass under railroad bridges. Heavily laden coal barges, like long chains of dominoes, chug past. The double doors of their cabins splayed […]
AMERICAN RIVER CRUISE CHURNS UP HISTORY
David Ellis THE newest thing in cruise holidaying in America is in fact the oldest, with the re-launch this month of the 436-passenger American Queen, a sternwheeler that had been laid-up on the banks of the Mississippi River since her previous owners shut down the engines and walked away broke in 2008. But going back […]
Travel Talk Magazine – May 2012
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Travel Talk Magazine – May 2012
Open publication – Free publishing – More travel Save hours on your travel research. Get brochures delivered to your door for free. Digital option too.
Travel Talk Magazine – May 2012
Open publication – Free publishing – More travel Save hours on your travel research. Get brochures delivered to your door for free. Digital option too.
Travel across tundra in Russia
Walrus on Wrangel. Picture: Ewen Bell by Ewen Bell WRANGEL Island is one of the most isolated postings for a Russian park ranger. More than 100km north of the Siberian coast, where there are more bears than people by a factor of 10. For a few months of the year, the coastline around Wrangel is […]
Oceanwide Plancius update
22 April: Tugboat comes to aid of Plancius in South Georgia. (Alistair Wilson) The mechanical dysfunction of the main propulsion system of mv Plancius is repaired. The ship left Montevideo on 08 May and is now en route to home port and will be back in the Netherlands on 05 June for another check up […]
Glenn Shorrock to Perform On Yangtze Cruise
Singer-songwriter Glenn Shorrock is to put on an exclusive solo performance for a select group of Australian travellers during a luxury cruise on China’s Yangtze River. The former lead singer and founder of the seventies group the Little River Band will join 2UE’s popular weekend radio hosts George Moore and Paul B Kidd on a […]
Glenn Shorrock to Perform On Yangtze Cruise
Singer-songwriter Glenn Shorrock is to put on an exclusive solo performance for a select group of Australian travellers during a luxury cruise on China’s Yangtze River. The former lead singer and founder of the seventies group the Little River Band will join 2UE’s popular weekend radio hosts George Moore and Paul B Kidd on a […]
