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Struth! ‘Pierless’ couple in wrong hemisphere
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a South African couple who decided to make their own internet hotel bookings for the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand should possibly have done it through a travel agent – they got the […]
SLUM IT IN STYLE IN EDINBURGH’S WITCHERY
David Ellis ONCE they were slums that those down on their luck would wait agonising months, often years, to get out of – today the most affluent wait up to nine months to get into them. They are the-now just-eight suites in an extraordinary boutique hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland called The Witchery by the Castle. […]
SLUM IT IN STYLE IN EDINBURGH’S WITCHERY
David Ellis ONCE they were slums that those down on their luck would wait agonising months, often years, to get out of – today the most affluent wait up to nine months to get into them. They are the-now just-eight suites in an extraordinary boutique hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland called The Witchery by the Castle. […]
AMERICA STEAMBOATIN’ BACK TO THE FUTURE
David Ellis AT their prime, anything up to two hundred steam-driven paddle- and stern-wheelers could be seen on any one day along any of the city waterfronts of America’s mighty Mississippi, a waterway stretching from Minnesota in the country’s far north, to where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans […]
AMERICA STEAMBOATIN’ BACK TO THE FUTURE
David Ellis AT their prime, anything up to two hundred steam-driven paddle- and stern-wheelers could be seen on any one day along any of the city waterfronts of America’s mighty Mississippi, a waterway stretching from Minnesota in the country’s far north, to where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans […]
Struth! Take a wide berth
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says you need to look to the right, to the left and then to the right again more than once when crossing the main street of Trundle in country NSW – its an amazing 66-metres wide (that’s […]
Struth! Take a wide berth
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says you need to look to the right, to the left and then to the right again more than once when crossing the main street of Trundle in country NSW – its an amazing 66-metres wide (that’s […]
VANUATU’S ROI MATA, A CHIEF TO DIE FOR
David Ellis WHEN the great Vanuatu chief, Roi Mata died some 400 years ago, his devout followers so wanted to ensure that he enjoyed life in the hereafter just as he had on earth, that they had some fifty of his wives, family and closest retainers buried with him… alive. As well scores, possibly hundreds, […]
VANUATU’S ROI MATA, A CHIEF TO DIE FOR
David Ellis WHEN the great Vanuatu chief, Roi Mata died some 400 years ago, his devout followers so wanted to ensure that he enjoyed life in the hereafter just as he had on earth, that they had some fifty of his wives, family and closest retainers buried with him… alive. As well scores, possibly hundreds, […]
DROP-OUTS’ STORY A REAL CLIFF-HANGER
David Ellis DAVID Gatward-Ferguson delights in telling people, particularly his fellow Brits, that he’s a drop-out. “Wife’s one, too,” he cheerfully adds. “I dropped-out of marketing computer systems, and Amanda dropped-out from being an accountant. “And now we spend our days in the most beautiful terrain in the world. Fellow Poms turn greener than the […]
