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Out-Of-The-Way Ports take Center Stage on Compagnie du Ponant’s 2011 Boston-Montreal Fall Foliage Sailings
Ponant’s brand new Le Boreal Luxury yacht cruise company Compagnie du Ponant has announced one of the most extensive Fall Foliage itineraries available from any cruise line – with 11 ports of call, nine of them in Canada, and several only accessible to the yacht-size ships. Highlights include the small village of Perce, near the […]
Victoria Cruises Adds Cultural Excursion
Victoria Cruises’ has redesigned ships and added a new excursion Victoria Cruises, which has redesigned and rechristened the Victoria Liana, Victoria Selina and Victoria Prince, is launching a new shore excursion to Guqin Terrace in Wuhan, China, for 2011 sailings of its eight-night Three Gorges Discovery program in the upstream direction. It replaces the Hubei […]
Travel Weekly: Orion Increases PNG Voyages
Travel Weekly: How is Orion’s cruise program for Papua New Guinea (PNG) shaping up for 2012? Sarina Bratton: For the first time both Orion ships will visit PNG in 2012. The two ships have been chartered by US organisations for the Solar Eclipse off Port Douglas. The Orion II will have her maiden call in […]
WIN A TRIP FOR TWO TO SEE POLAR BEARS AND EXPERIENCE THE ARCTIC WITH AURORA EXPEDITIONS
Aurora Expeditions Provides $20,000 Trip of a Lifetime with ‘European Arctic Adventure’ Prize Visitors to Sydney Ice Bear at Customs House Square from Friday 3 June to Friday 10 June will experience first-hand the impact of the human footprint on our natural world. The life-sized ice sculpture of a polar bear will melt over the […]
The Southern Highland’s best kept secret is out Gibraltar Hotel, Bowral opens to wide acclaim
Nestled on 100-acres, among century old elm and pine trees and under the shadow of Bowral’s iconic Mt Gibraltar, is the new Gibraltar Hotel, the most luxurious and modern hotel accommodation available in NSW’s Southern Highlands. Just one and half hours easy drive from Sydney and Canberra, Gibraltar Hotel offers 76 luxurious suites each with […]
The Southern Highland’s best kept secret is out Gibraltar Hotel, Bowral opens to wide acclaim
Nestled on 100-acres, among century old elm and pine trees and under the shadow of Bowral’s iconic Mt Gibraltar, is the new Gibraltar Hotel, the most luxurious and modern hotel accommodation available in NSW’s Southern Highlands. Just one and half hours easy drive from Sydney and Canberra, Gibraltar Hotel offers 76 luxurious suites each with […]
The Southern Highland’s best kept secret is out Gibraltar Hotel, Bowral opens to wide acclaim
Nestled on 100-acres, among century old elm and pine trees and under the shadow of Bowral’s iconic Mt Gibraltar, is the new Gibraltar Hotel, the most luxurious and modern hotel accommodation available in NSW’s Southern Highlands. Just one and half hours easy drive from Sydney and Canberra, Gibraltar Hotel offers 76 luxurious suites each with […]
Struth! Empty Cigar Box worth thousands
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that for years Hilary Mee dusted it, moved it, sometimes wondered about it, but simply considered it one of the family’s many accumulated antiques and oddities. But ‘It’ has now earned her an unexpected […]
SURFING GAME CAN BE A DOG’S LIFE
David Ellis IF it’s a dog’s life, then Lani, a four-year old Border Collie-Labrador, reckons bring it on. Because for Lani life is one long day at the beach, chasing the odd seabird, splashing in the waves, sunning on the sands – and taking a ride with owner Chris de Aboitiz on a […]
Polar Star captain claims crew is stranded in Spain
The Canadian operator of the 105-passenger Polar Star, damaged after striking an uncharted rock in Antarctica in January, went into receivership this week. And the captain of the expedition ship said the move left the 27-member crew stranded in Spain, where the vessel underwent repairs. The Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Tuesday placed Halifax-based Karlsen […]
