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Struth! Running for your life
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis tells the story of ultra-runner, mountaineer and adventure racer, Marshall Ulrich who at 57 years of age ran 4,932km across America from San Francisco to New York, has climbed the highest peaks of all seven continents, and […]
Struth! Running for your life
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis tells the story of ultra-runner, mountaineer and adventure racer, Marshall Ulrich who at 57 years of age ran 4,932km across America from San Francisco to New York, has climbed the highest peaks of all seven continents, and […]
ONE-TIME PRISON’S A CELL-OUT AS A HOTEL
David Ellis HOLIDAYMAKERS looking for the out-of-the-ordinary can today do time in the one-time cells of what was once one of England’s toughest prisons, a hell-hole housed within the 5-metre thick walls of the country’s historic Oxford Castle. And strange as it may seem, when the prison was first built 350-odd years ago, those incarcerated […]
ONE-TIME PRISON’S A CELL-OUT AS A HOTEL
David Ellis HOLIDAYMAKERS looking for the out-of-the-ordinary can today do time in the one-time cells of what was once one of England’s toughest prisons, a hell-hole housed within the 5-metre thick walls of the country’s historic Oxford Castle. And strange as it may seem, when the prison was first built 350-odd years ago, those incarcerated […]
Struth! Hotels lament light-fingered guests
STRUTH! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says light-fingered hotel guests in the UK helped themselves last year to enough goodies to start a second-hand shop – and it was anything than just soaps and toiletries. Amongst items that the country’s Best Western […]
Struth! Hotels lament light-fingered guests
STRUTH! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says light-fingered hotel guests in the UK helped themselves last year to enough goodies to start a second-hand shop – and it was anything than just soaps and toiletries. Amongst items that the country’s Best Western […]
Struth! Smurfs take over village for blue movie
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a small village in Spain that has fewer than 180 residents has attracted 80,000 visitors in the past six months – all because every one of its buildings was painted a vivid blue for the filming […]
Struth! Smurfs take over village for blue movie
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a small village in Spain that has fewer than 180 residents has attracted 80,000 visitors in the past six months – all because every one of its buildings was painted a vivid blue for the filming […]
TASSIE SILHOUETTE TRAIL A CUT-OUT OF HISTORY
NOT quite Hollywood, but a welcome mat from the heart. CUT-out of history: the start of the Silhouette Trail at Kempton. WILMOT Arms Inn was built by convicts in 1844 – and a good place to stay today. ONE-time Presbyterian Church is now a community hall known as the Blue Place. David Ellis KEMPTON’s not […]
TASSIE SILHOUETTE TRAIL A CUT-OUT OF HISTORY
NOT quite Hollywood, but a welcome mat from the heart. CUT-out of history: the start of the Silhouette Trail at Kempton. WILMOT Arms Inn was built by convicts in 1844 – and a good place to stay today. ONE-time Presbyterian Church is now a community hall known as the Blue Place. David Ellis KEMPTON’s not […]
