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KOREA TURNS THE TAP ON WATERY INNOVATIONS
David ElliswithHilary Roots HANDS up if you’ve heard of Yeosu. And hands up again if you know where it is, with top marks if you can say why it’s currently revelling in the limelight. The answer to the latter is that Yeosu, a small port city at the lower tip of South Korea, is the […]
KOREA TURNS THE TAP ON WATERY INNOVATIONS
David ElliswithHilary Roots HANDS up if you’ve heard of Yeosu. And hands up again if you know where it is, with top marks if you can say why it’s currently revelling in the limelight. The answer to the latter is that Yeosu, a small port city at the lower tip of South Korea, is the […]
A LEANING TO PORT – THAT’S THE SPIRIT!
David Ellis with John Rozentals FOR wine buffs the historic cellars of Seppeltsfield, in the heart of South Australia’s Barossa Valley, are a very, very special place indeed. Because here visitors – wine buff or not – are surrounded by casks of port from every vintage since 1878. That was when Benno Seppelt, eldest son […]
A LEANING TO PORT – THAT’S THE SPIRIT!
David Ellis with John Rozentals FOR wine buffs the historic cellars of Seppeltsfield, in the heart of South Australia’s Barossa Valley, are a very, very special place indeed. Because here visitors – wine buff or not – are surrounded by casks of port from every vintage since 1878. That was when Benno Seppelt, eldest son […]
CRUISING THE MEKONG IN YESTER-YEAR STYLE
David Ellis WE recently ran into a colleague we worked with many, many moons ago at ABC News, returning to her now-home on the Isle of Pines after a week cruising the mighty Mekong aboard the replica colonial river steamer, Indochina Pandaw. And so intrigued were we with what our friend Hilary Roots told […]
RAISING A GLASS TO WINE’S ‘MR MICK’
David Ellis FOR South Australian winemaker Tim Adams, buying the Clare Valley’s historic old Leasingham Winery this month with wife and business partner Pam Goldsack was not so much a business decision, but a homecoming. Because it’s allowed him to achieve what so many starry-eyed young hopefuls dream of: from starting as a bottom-of-the-ladder […]
RAISING A GLASS TO WINE’S ‘MR MICK’
David Ellis FOR South Australian winemaker Tim Adams, buying the Clare Valley’s historic old Leasingham Winery this month with wife and business partner Pam Goldsack was not so much a business decision, but a homecoming. Because it’s allowed him to achieve what so many starry-eyed young hopefuls dream of: from starting as a bottom-of-the-ladder […]
RAILROADING THE KIDS’ INHERITANCE
David Ellis and John Rozentals IT may not have the mystique of Agatha Christie’s Orient Express, or require the week-long stamina of the Trans-Siberian, but there’s no doubting the status of Australia’s The Ghan as one of the world’s great rail journeys. Because this is an epic 54-hour transcontinental expedition covering almost 3000km […]
RAILROADING THE KIDS’ INHERITANCE
David Ellis and John Rozentals IT may not have the mystique of Agatha Christie’s Orient Express, or require the week-long stamina of the Trans-Siberian, but there’s no doubting the status of Australia’s The Ghan as one of the world’s great rail journeys. Because this is an epic 54-hour transcontinental expedition covering almost 3000km […]
ON TRACK PRESERVING OUR STEAMY PAST
David Ellis WHAT ever it is about trains that attracts people – and it seems the older the trains, the more the attraction – Trainworks has struck gold doing it with the largest rail museum in the Southern Hemisphere. And located at Thirlmere around just an hour’s drive southwest of Sydney’s CBD, it attracts 34,000 […]
