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Michael Palin: On The Road Again
In these days of Twitter and Facebook and instant messaging, a gap of nine months between website messages seems positively Neanderthal, so I apologise. It’s not that I take a long time to type, it’s just that I haven’t been zooming around the world with my normal regularity. Until last month that is, when, in […]
Cruise Weekly: All time high for Aussie cruise industry
There was a huge 27% growth in Australian cruise passenger numbers last year, according to International Cruise Council Australasia figures just released. A total of 466,692 Aussies took a cruise holiday in 2010 – up 100,000 on the previous year, representing the largest hike in passenger numbers since statistics began being compiled nine years ago. ICCA […]
Cruise Weekly: All time high for Aussie cruise industry
There was a huge 27% growth in Australian cruise passenger numbers last year, according to International Cruise Council Australasia figures just released. A total of 466,692 Aussies took a cruise holiday in 2010 – up 100,000 on the previous year, representing the largest hike in passenger numbers since statistics began being compiled nine years ago. ICCA […]
HOTEL IS ALL A MATTER OF IMPRESSIONS
David Ellis IT’S not every day you check into a big-name resort and find that the lady at the Front Desk is a Director. Or when you go for a well-earned drink in the bar, you’re served by a Director there too – and when its time for […]
STRUTH! Derailed Flyer up for grabs
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that if you’ve always wanted your own steam train, there’s one for sale in New Zealand complete with steam engine, two passenger carriages, a kitchen van, 14km of track, two stations, and […]
Mornington Peninsula – Silversea – Lake Okareka Lodge – Masala Dandenong – Russia
TRAVEL BRIEFS John Crook A top spot from which to escape Apart from the fact that most of the disaster zones, in Victoria and Queensland, have returned to normal business, Aussie domestic travel and tourism offer some fantastic holiday options. In this week’s report I’m suggesting a couple of days R & R on the […]
Mornington Peninsula – Silversea – Lake Okareka Lodge – Masala Dandenong – Russia
TRAVEL BRIEFS John Crook A top spot from which to escape Apart from the fact that most of the disaster zones, in Victoria and Queensland, have returned to normal business, Aussie domestic travel and tourism offer some fantastic holiday options. In this week’s report I’m suggesting a couple of days R & R on the […]
Out of This World – the Top Five Remote Island Destinations for the Eco-Traveller
2011 Cruise Passenger MagazineAdventure Cruise Guide Media Release: 4 April 2011 Cruise Passenger Magazine’s Adventure Cruise Guide Names the Top Five Remote Island Destinations Accessible Only by Expedition Vessel. Our planet is transforming every day. The climate is changing, forests are vanishing, endangered species disappear daily and the polar ice is melting at an alarming […]
SMH: Wild on the peninsula
By boat … Zodiac cruising near Bukhta Russkaya. Photo: Louise Southerden Among the oversized bears and birds of Kamchatka, Louise Southerden hears stories of war and adventure. It’s a blue-sky day as we file down the gangway of the ship and onto waiting Zodiacs. Bukhta Russkaya (Russia Bay) has everything that makes the Russian Far […]
Antarctic adventure: In search of Captain Scott on a long voyage to the frozen South
By Roderick Gilchrist We had been at sea for five days, battered incessantly by 40ft waves, when The Orion’s engines cut out and we were left at the mercy of the most dangerous ocean in the world. Our stabilisers, and every technical advantage over the schooners of old, were useless as we listed in latitudes […]
