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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 […]
Your Choice – Bangers and Mash, or Snail Porridge
THE GUIDEBOOKS will tell you that Bray, about an hour’s drive west of London, is the archetypal English rural village. It’s all about little thatched cottages, a cricket ground on which they’ve thwacked the leather since 1798, a parish church dating back to 1293, and a pub where King Charles II would dally with his […]
Having the Mob Around at Your Wedding
David Ellis IT seems that getting married in a drive-through chapel with a queue of others in open-top Cadillacs, maybe having an Elvis look-alike escort you down the aisle, or even being driven into church on His and Her’s Harley Davidsons, is no longer good enough in Las Vegas – America’s capital of where Everything’s […]
Having the Mob Around at Your Wedding
David Ellis IT seems that getting married in a drive-through chapel with a queue of others in open-top Cadillacs, maybe having an Elvis look-alike escort you down the aisle, or even being driven into church on His and Her’s Harley Davidsons, is no longer good enough in Las Vegas – America’s capital of where Everything’s […]
STRUTH ! Airline Pranks Parents
IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Canadian low-cost airline WestJet was inundated with calls from potential customers from across the country – and Media from around the world – when it announced a new concept in flying. It said in a Press […]
STRUTH ! Airline Pranks Parents
IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Canadian low-cost airline WestJet was inundated with calls from potential customers from across the country – and Media from around the world – when it announced a new concept in flying. It said in a Press […]
Fractious Young Officer Unsung Titanic Hero
David Ellis A TRAVEL writer mate, Malcolm Andrews has just published a ripper of a book about a little-known Australian adventurer, Sir Hubert Wilkins who amongst other things was a war hero, explorer, the first person to fly over both polar icecaps, only member of the Australian media ever to win a military medal for […]
Fractious Young Officer Unsung Titanic Hero
David Ellis A TRAVEL writer mate, Malcolm Andrews has just published a ripper of a book about a little-known Australian adventurer, Sir Hubert Wilkins who amongst other things was a war hero, explorer, the first person to fly over both polar icecaps, only member of the Australian media ever to win a military medal for […]
BUNDANOON IS BRIGADOON – AND A REEL HOOT
David Ellis IF marvelling at brawny blokes tossing around what appear to be scaled-down power poles with nary a wince is your thing, or equally so watching them lift great round stones that weigh as much (or more) than they do, then come April 21 little Bundanoon – half-way between Sydney and Canberra in […]
BUNDANOON IS BRIGADOON – AND A REEL HOOT
David Ellis IF marvelling at brawny blokes tossing around what appear to be scaled-down power poles with nary a wince is your thing, or equally so watching them lift great round stones that weigh as much (or more) than they do, then come April 21 little Bundanoon – half-way between Sydney and Canberra in […]
