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GOLD FIND CAME AS A FLASH OF LIGHT
David Ellis ONE day in the mid-1800s when a prospector named David Lindsay was sweltering away in a dry creek bed where it was 40-degrees in the shade – and there was no shade – he stopped to pick at a brilliantly coloured stone from which flashes of red danced devilishly under the harsh Central […]
A BRIT’S FIZZ FRAZZLES THE FRENCH
David Ellis WHEN a bubbly from England’s South Downs in County Sussex won the title of World’s Best Sparkling Wine at the International Wine & Spirit Competition in 2005, screams of horror could be heard from some in Champagne across the Channel in France, while others shrugged it off as little more than an aberration. […]
A BRIT’S FIZZ FRAZZLES THE FRENCH
David Ellis WHEN a bubbly from England’s South Downs in County Sussex won the title of World’s Best Sparkling Wine at the International Wine & Spirit Competition in 2005, screams of horror could be heard from some in Champagne across the Channel in France, while others shrugged it off as little more than an aberration. […]
MIAMI’S THE PITS IS THE TOPS
david ellis WE feel like we’re in a time-warp, finding ourselves here in a 1960s-something hamburger joint wondering if The Fonz will suddenly sweep in and start working the jukebox. But while we’re here, there’ll be no Fonz, nor many others for that matter. Most folk are too busy rushing on their way from Miami […]
MIAMI’S THE PITS IS THE TOPS
david ellis WE feel like we’re in a time-warp, finding ourselves here in a 1960s-something hamburger joint wondering if The Fonz will suddenly sweep in and start working the jukebox. But while we’re here, there’ll be no Fonz, nor many others for that matter. Most folk are too busy rushing on their way from Miami […]
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 […]
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 […]
Struth! Only the British …
IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous, David Ellis says the following are amongst some of the more unusual quotes in British newspapers in recent times. COMMENTING on a complaint from a Mr. Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West Gas said: “We agree it was […]
Struth! Only the British …
IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous, David Ellis says the following are amongst some of the more unusual quotes in British newspapers in recent times. COMMENTING on a complaint from a Mr. Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West Gas said: “We agree it was […]
CARIBBEAN B&B’s AN EASY CELL
David Ellis WHEN the people of the little island of Saba in the Caribbean’s Netherlands Antilles asked authorities in the 1940s for a road to link their scattered farms and hamlets with their tiny port township, officials in The Hague agreed it appeared a reasonable enough request. But once their team of engineers got there […]
