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RESORT’S INTENTS LUXURY WHEN YOU’VE GOT THE GRIZZLIES
David Ellis “You take the bells, and I’ll take the pepper spray and the rifle,” says John ‘Cowboy’ Caton. “There’s one-point-five bears to every square kilometre out there – you’re in wilderness country now.” We’d accepted Cowboy John’s invitation to what we’d been assured would be a nice leisurely embrace with nature, not […]
ASTRONAUT HAD ROCKET – WILL TRAVEL
David Ellis WHEN Walter Cunningham is invited to tell people his views on our Planet, he does not bore them with his thoughts on politics, religion, climate change or other debatable subjects. Rather he has them in awe of his accounts – with accompanying extraordinary photographs – of the world as he’s actually seen it. […]
ASTRONAUT HAD ROCKET – WILL TRAVEL
David Ellis WHEN Walter Cunningham is invited to tell people his views on our Planet, he does not bore them with his thoughts on politics, religion, climate change or other debatable subjects. Rather he has them in awe of his accounts – with accompanying extraordinary photographs – of the world as he’s actually seen it. […]
Struth! Naples talks garbage
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says holidaymakers and business travellers heading to the Italian city of Naples are being warned of a health hazard: thousands of tonnes of rubbish are piling up in the city streets because of a dispute […]
Struth! Naples talks garbage
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says holidaymakers and business travellers heading to the Italian city of Naples are being warned of a health hazard: thousands of tonnes of rubbish are piling up in the city streets because of a dispute […]
EMPTY TABLES TURN A HEALTHY PROFIT
David Ellis WHEN they made the movie Captain Corelli’s Mandolin in picturesque little Sami on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 2001, it proved a windfall of unimaginable proportions for the village’s waterfront restaurateurs They earned more during the filming than they’d done in years, but not from gawking sightseers hoping to catch a glimpse […]
EMPTY TABLES TURN A HEALTHY PROFIT
David Ellis WHEN they made the movie Captain Corelli’s Mandolin in picturesque little Sami on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 2001, it proved a windfall of unimaginable proportions for the village’s waterfront restaurateurs They earned more during the filming than they’d done in years, but not from gawking sightseers hoping to catch a glimpse […]
SPREADING THE WORD, ROOM BY ROOM
David Ellis HAD it not been for the Central Hotel in Boscobel in Wisconsin being over-booked one night in the American Autumn of 1898, the world would never have enjoyed the legacy of John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill. Nor probably have even heard of them. But it was Messrs Nicholson and Hill who […]
SPREADING THE WORD, ROOM BY ROOM
David Ellis HAD it not been for the Central Hotel in Boscobel in Wisconsin being over-booked one night in the American Autumn of 1898, the world would never have enjoyed the legacy of John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill. Nor probably have even heard of them. But it was Messrs Nicholson and Hill who […]
PANDAW – THE PHOENIX OF ASIA
David Ellis with David Ovens HAD it not been for Sir Arthur Phayre the beauties and mysteries of some of Asia’s greatest waterways may well have remained the secret of those hardy souls who live along their banks. As Governor of British Burma in 1864 Phayre founded the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, a Scottish-owned fleet of paddle steamers […]
