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WAT’S THIS? HOW ANGKOR WAS LOST AND FOUND

WAT’S THIS? HOW ANGKOR WAS LOST AND FOUND

David Ellis   LOSING the keys to the house is one thing, but it’s another thing altogether to lose the house as well – plus a whole community of hundreds of farms, trading markets and even palaces and temples that once spread over 400 square kilometres.   Yet that’s exactly what happened when the old […]

WAT’S THIS? HOW ANGKOR WAS LOST AND FOUND

WAT’S THIS? HOW ANGKOR WAS LOST AND FOUND

David Ellis   LOSING the keys to the house is one thing, but it’s another thing altogether to lose the house as well – plus a whole community of hundreds of farms, trading markets and even palaces and temples that once spread over 400 square kilometres.   Yet that’s exactly what happened when the old […]

STRUTH – Electric Chair a Shocking Exhibit

STRUTH – Electric Chair a Shocking Exhibit

STRUTH !    IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says one of the more bizarre exhibitions to go on show at the Ohio Historical Centre in Columbus, Ohio next month includes a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, an aluminium mitt used in the […]

STRUTH – Electric Chair a Shocking Exhibit

STRUTH – Electric Chair a Shocking Exhibit

STRUTH !    IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says one of the more bizarre exhibitions to go on show at the Ohio Historical Centre in Columbus, Ohio next month includes a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, an aluminium mitt used in the […]

LAST PINT FOR ENGLAND’S HANGING JUDGE

LAST PINT FOR ENGLAND’S HANGING JUDGE

David Ellis THE kind-natured folk of Wapping in the once less-salubrious area of London’s Docklands, are quick to give a warning to tourists who venture at night into their now sought-after area in search of a truly traditional London pub. “Beware the Hanging Judge,” they caution. “He wanders around here after dark.” George Jeffreys, the […]

LAST PINT FOR ENGLAND’S HANGING JUDGE

LAST PINT FOR ENGLAND’S HANGING JUDGE

David Ellis THE kind-natured folk of Wapping in the once less-salubrious area of London’s Docklands, are quick to give a warning to tourists who venture at night into their now sought-after area in search of a truly traditional London pub. “Beware the Hanging Judge,” they caution. “He wanders around here after dark.” George Jeffreys, the […]

MORE THAN MYSTERY IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE

MORE THAN MYSTERY IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE

David Ellis  IT would be a far braver soul than this writer to challenge anything written about Thailand by fellow scribbler Glyn May: after forty-five years of going there he gave up counting how many times after his 160th visit… So when he started telling us a new yarn of intrigue involving the mysterious Golden […]

MORE THAN MYSTERY IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE

MORE THAN MYSTERY IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE

David Ellis  IT would be a far braver soul than this writer to challenge anything written about Thailand by fellow scribbler Glyn May: after forty-five years of going there he gave up counting how many times after his 160th visit… So when he started telling us a new yarn of intrigue involving the mysterious Golden […]

Struth! Fully Loaded Iraqi Bike Adventure

Struth! Fully Loaded Iraqi Bike Adventure

STRUTH !    IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a former UK soldier has put together a holiday that takes “adventure tourism” to new heights: its by motorbike through the rugged north of Iraq. Steve Askin has the backing of a major British […]

Struth! Fully Loaded Iraqi Bike Adventure

Struth! Fully Loaded Iraqi Bike Adventure

STRUTH !    IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a former UK soldier has put together a holiday that takes “adventure tourism” to new heights: its by motorbike through the rugged north of Iraq. Steve Askin has the backing of a major British […]