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HOTEL IS ALL A MATTER OF IMPRESSIONS
David Ellis IT’S not every day you check into a big-name resort and find that the lady at the Front Desk is a Director. Or when you go for a well-earned drink in the bar, you’re served by a Director there too – and when its time for dinner the lady who takes your order […]
HOTEL IS ALL A MATTER OF IMPRESSIONS
David Ellis IT’S not every day you check into a big-name resort and find that the lady at the Front Desk is a Director. Or when you go for a well-earned drink in the bar, you’re served by a Director there too – and when its time for dinner the lady who takes your order […]
Struth! First Mo-Tel is no-tel
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says its been closed for twenty-years, and today only the original mission-style belltower still stands to mark where the world’s first motel was built in California in 1925. Los Angeles architect, Arthur Heineman built the […]
Struth! First Mo-Tel is no-tel
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says its been closed for twenty-years, and today only the original mission-style belltower still stands to mark where the world’s first motel was built in California in 1925. Los Angeles architect, Arthur Heineman built the […]
STORMY END FOR LUXURY STEAMER YONGALA
David Ellis WHEN he went in search of a cab in the days before radio taxis, David Coyne went to the rank near his local pub at Mackay in Queensland, and to his delight found not only a cab – but one that was being driven by a seldom-seen old mate. The two men had […]
STORMY END FOR LUXURY STEAMER YONGALA
David Ellis WHEN he went in search of a cab in the days before radio taxis, David Coyne went to the rank near his local pub at Mackay in Queensland, and to his delight found not only a cab – but one that was being driven by a seldom-seen old mate. The two men had […]
WHY MARY’S FANS ARE POPPIN INTO BOWRAL
David Ellis THE delightful little town of Bowral, population around 10,000 in the NSW Southern Highlands, has taken a jump on New York City, population 8.2-million, to erect a life-size statue to a design by one of England’s finest sculptors of the world’s most popular super-nanny, Mary Poppins. And coincidentally it’s a Bowral teenager who […]
WHY MARY’S FANS ARE POPPIN INTO BOWRAL
David Ellis THE delightful little town of Bowral, population around 10,000 in the NSW Southern Highlands, has taken a jump on New York City, population 8.2-million, to erect a life-size statue to a design by one of England’s finest sculptors of the world’s most popular super-nanny, Mary Poppins. And coincidentally it’s a Bowral teenager who […]
Struth! Kung Fu Cabin Crew
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says you’ll need to think twice in the future about behaving badly if you’re flying with Hong Kong Airlines. Because their entire cabin crew are being taught kung fu (or as say call it wing […]
Struth! Kung Fu Cabin Crew
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says you’ll need to think twice in the future about behaving badly if you’re flying with Hong Kong Airlines. Because their entire cabin crew are being taught kung fu (or as say call it wing […]
