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The Mystery of JFK and PT109
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO PT109 David Ellis IT’S generally only the more adventurous make it to remote Gizo in the Solomon Islands, a magical place of some of the world’s best fishing and wreck and reef diving, and from where you can venture a further 10kms to a miniscule dot shown on most charts […]
GOING TROPPO IN A BERLIN RAINFOREST
David Ellis WE’VE never really considered Berlin the place to go for a tropical holiday. So when a British-based colleague told us in January he was ducking over there to swap the Poms’ winter snow and zero-temperatures for a week of tropical 26-degree temperatures, maybe camp in a rainforest, play golf in shorts and T-shirts, […]
Britain: Go Hang Yourself
GHOSTLY REMINDERS OF UK’s HANGING FIELDS David Ellis THE Brits love to let you know they’ve a ghost of two around, and the more macabre the plight of the poor soul whose spirit supposedly haunts their local pub, mansion, castle or monastery, the more they relish sharing – and just occasionally – embellishing their yarn. […]
Bundanoon becomes Brigadoon for a day – April 6
BUNDANOON’S STONES AN UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE David Ellis THE Scots have been doing it for centuries, the Icelanders for as long as they can remember, and on the other side of the world, it’s been revered in Hawaiian history as a sign of royal strength. We’re talking about lifting stones. Not any old stones, but special […]
Windsor Castle Blaze – repairers go to work
WEEKENDER’S $90M FIRE DAMAGE BILL David Ellis WHEN the renovators were called in to repair some fire damage to a weekender on England’s River Thames in 1992, the owner wanted the work to match the original as faithfully as possible. This may have been a simple request had the place in question been a 1960s […]
Fanning Island Kiribati – Paradise Found?
david ellis BLINK while you’re looking at a map of the Pacific and you’ll miss it, this tiny dot whose few visitors will tell you its the closest they’ve come to Paradise Found. Fanning Island is part of the independent nation of Kiribati in the Line Islands, a remote group in the central Pacific that […]
Pearl of Istanbul: Agatha Christie’s whodunnit
HOTEL GUEST LIST A PEARLER OF WHODUNNITS david ellis AT her grand opening in 1892 she was hailed as the Pearl of Istanbul, a visionary hotel whose luxuries and services were of the likes never before seen in Istanbul – nor in much of Europe for that matter. But after a hundred years of attracting […]
Newgate Prison: For whom the bell tolled
David Ellis THERE are few people, it seems, who haven’t got an interest these days in delving into their family history, and many are combining that interest with holiday travels to the realms of long-gone forebears. My wife is up to her elbows in it, after discovering that her grandfather was the captain of a […]
150 Years in the Southern Highlands: Convicts, bushrangers, heroes and squatters
VICE-REGAL SUMMER BOLT-HOLE – THAT’S COOL David Ellis WHILE bushranger Ben Hall and his lot were getting travellers to throw up their arms and part with their possessions on the roads of the Southern Highlands of NSW back in the 1860s, more law-abiding citizens were throwing up inns, grand mansions and public edifices that would […]
Elba: Napoleon’s mark on his isle of exile.
David Ellis NAPOLEON could certainly have done a lot worse than being exiled to the little Mediterranean island of Elba in 1814 in punishment for his surprising loss in the war with Russia, which he’d sought to add to his already many other conquests across Europe. Because not only was here on Elba a place […]
