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Struth! Titanic plans fetch small fortune
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a huge 10-metre long plan of the Titanic that was used at the official enquiry in 1912 into the ship’s sinking, has sold at auction in England for an extraordinary GBP220,000 (AU$340,000.) It was bought […]
Struth! Titanic plans fetch small fortune
IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a huge 10-metre long plan of the Titanic that was used at the official enquiry in 1912 into the ship’s sinking, has sold at auction in England for an extraordinary GBP220,000 (AU$340,000.) It was bought […]
Struth! Empty Cigar Box worth thousands
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that for years Hilary Mee dusted it, moved it, sometimes wondered about it, but simply considered it one of the family’s many accumulated antiques and oddities. But ‘It’ has now earned her an unexpected […]
Struth! Empty Cigar Box worth thousands
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that for years Hilary Mee dusted it, moved it, sometimes wondered about it, but simply considered it one of the family’s many accumulated antiques and oddities. But ‘It’ has now earned her an unexpected […]
SURFING GAME CAN BE A DOG’S LIFE
David Ellis IF it’s a dog’s life, then Lani, a four-year old Border Collie-Labrador, reckons bring it on. Because for Lani life is one long day at the beach, chasing the odd seabird, splashing in the waves, sunning on the sands – and taking a ride with owner Chris de Aboitiz on a […]
SURFING GAME CAN BE A DOG’S LIFE
David Ellis IF it’s a dog’s life, then Lani, a four-year old Border Collie-Labrador, reckons bring it on. Because for Lani life is one long day at the beach, chasing the odd seabird, splashing in the waves, sunning on the sands – and taking a ride with owner Chris de Aboitiz on a […]
STRUTH! Hotels help clean up with used soap
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says an organisation in America is asking hotels in the country to give it the nearly one-million bars of soap that are only partly-used by guests every day. Orlando-based Clean the World Foundation is a […]
STRUTH! Hotels help clean up with used soap
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says an organisation in America is asking hotels in the country to give it the nearly one-million bars of soap that are only partly-used by guests every day. Orlando-based Clean the World Foundation is a […]
TRAGEDY OF YONGALA – “TOWNSVILLE’S TITANIC”
David Ellis IT’S one-hundred years since the luxury coastal passenger-cargo ship Yongala sank in a cyclone off the Queensland coast between Mackay and Townsville, claiming 122 lives in one of Australia’s worst civil shipping disasters. And despite an Australian Navy hydrographic survey ship locating the wreck 36 years later, it was simply “presumed to be […]
TRAGEDY OF YONGALA – “TOWNSVILLE’S TITANIC”
David Ellis IT’S one-hundred years since the luxury coastal passenger-cargo ship Yongala sank in a cyclone off the Queensland coast between Mackay and Townsville, claiming 122 lives in one of Australia’s worst civil shipping disasters. And despite an Australian Navy hydrographic survey ship locating the wreck 36 years later, it was simply “presumed to be […]
