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BIDDY MASON, AMERICA’S PHILANTHROPIC SLAVE
David Ellis CHANCES are you know nothing of a remarkable 19th century African-American woman named Biddy Mason. But crammed away in the concrete canyons of Downtown Los Angles is a tiny park that pays homage to Biddy… a slave forced to walk over 3000kms in the wagon-train tracks of her master from Mississippi to Utah […]
BIDDY MASON, AMERICA’S PHILANTHROPIC SLAVE
David Ellis CHANCES are you know nothing of a remarkable 19th century African-American woman named Biddy Mason. But crammed away in the concrete canyons of Downtown Los Angles is a tiny park that pays homage to Biddy… a slave forced to walk over 3000kms in the wagon-train tracks of her master from Mississippi to Utah […]
Struth! Underground comic relief
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says the following announcements were actually made by drivers on London’s Underground rail: 1) ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, I do apologize for the delay to your service. I know you’re all dying to get home, unless, of course, […]
Struth! Underground comic relief
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says the following announcements were actually made by drivers on London’s Underground rail: 1) ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, I do apologize for the delay to your service. I know you’re all dying to get home, unless, of course, […]
PASSENGERS BIZARRE DEATHS IN CARIBBEAN SINKING
David Ellis BIZARRE as it sounds, when a Royal Mail Ship, the Rhone smashed onto rocks in the Caribbean’s British Virgin Islands in 1867, over 200 passengers perished – because they’d been tied into their bunks by the crew. And equally strange, the little island on which the Rhone foundered is today owned by the […]
PASSENGERS BIZARRE DEATHS IN CARIBBEAN SINKING
David Ellis BIZARRE as it sounds, when a Royal Mail Ship, the Rhone smashed onto rocks in the Caribbean’s British Virgin Islands in 1867, over 200 passengers perished – because they’d been tied into their bunks by the crew. And equally strange, the little island on which the Rhone foundered is today owned by the […]
CHEERS TO A RIPPER PUB GUIDE – BRA NONE
David Ellis LIKE all good journos, Lee Mylne isn’t averse to a quiet drink on a warm day. Or a cold day for that matter. Maybe even a wet one. And despite many other scribe’s creditations, she’s just out-manoeuvred them all in the art of drinking-man’s one-upmanship – she got herself paid to go on […]
CHEERS TO A RIPPER PUB GUIDE – BRA NONE
David Ellis LIKE all good journos, Lee Mylne isn’t averse to a quiet drink on a warm day. Or a cold day for that matter. Maybe even a wet one. And despite many other scribe’s creditations, she’s just out-manoeuvred them all in the art of drinking-man’s one-upmanship – she got herself paid to go on […]
Struth! Airline encourages Mile High Clubbers
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Cincinnati (USA) charter air company, Flamingo Air is helping people trying to spark up their marriages or private lives… with a unique 1-hour in the air it calls Flight of Fancy. The company began as a […]
Struth! Airline encourages Mile High Clubbers
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Cincinnati (USA) charter air company, Flamingo Air is helping people trying to spark up their marriages or private lives… with a unique 1-hour in the air it calls Flight of Fancy. The company began as a […]
