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Struth! Grim Eater Gets a Wake-up Call
Image: Death at a Funeral (c) Parabolic Pictures Inc. STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in this world, David Ellis says a man in New Zealand has had a stop put to several months of free lunches. From March until a couple of weeks ago the man dined […]
FRUIT OF CHAMPAGNE STATURE – RHUBARB!
david ellis WOE betide any winemaker outside the Champagne region of France who makes a drop of bubbly and labels it “Champagne.” Because the word “Champagne” is registered under the Protected Designation of Origin Food Name laws of the European Union, regulations that are strictly-enforced to protect the reputation of regional foods from competition by […]
FRUIT OF CHAMPAGNE STATURE – RHUBARB!
david ellis WOE betide any winemaker outside the Champagne region of France who makes a drop of bubbly and labels it “Champagne.” Because the word “Champagne” is registered under the Protected Designation of Origin Food Name laws of the European Union, regulations that are strictly-enforced to protect the reputation of regional foods from competition by […]
CRUISING’S BOYS’ OWN, HUCK FINN AND FAWLTY TOWERS
Part one of one of the world’s most amazing cruise odysseys; part two next week. david ellis HAVING Paul Strachan tell you how he started a company called Pandaw River Cruises – and actually kept it running to go on to own a half dozen river boats in five Asian countries – is almost like […]
CRUISING’S BOYS’ OWN, HUCK FINN AND FAWLTY TOWERS
Part one of one of the world’s most amazing cruise odysseys; part two next week. david ellis HAVING Paul Strachan tell you how he started a company called Pandaw River Cruises – and actually kept it running to go on to own a half dozen river boats in five Asian countries – is almost like […]
FLOATING A DREAM BRINGS HISTORY ALIVE
David Ellis LAST week we told how Scotsman, Paul Strachan created a mini replica-fleet of Burma’s once mighty Irrawaddy Flotilla Company – overcoming onboard floodings, galleys toppling into rivers, crew walk-offs, and officers demanding six of his ten guest cabins. THE original Irrawaddy Flotilla Company was founded in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1865 by fellow-Scotsmen, […]
FLOATING A DREAM BRINGS HISTORY ALIVE
David Ellis LAST week we told how Scotsman, Paul Strachan created a mini replica-fleet of Burma’s once mighty Irrawaddy Flotilla Company – overcoming onboard floodings, galleys toppling into rivers, crew walk-offs, and officers demanding six of his ten guest cabins. THE original Irrawaddy Flotilla Company was founded in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1865 by fellow-Scotsmen, […]
BERLIN’S BEST AND ITS WURST
david ellis THE rain is pelting down, so much so that from inside our coach it’s difficult to identify much out of what our guide is talking about. And any idea, she suggests, of photos or look-sees is probably out of the question. Until she points out the KaDeWe (pronounced Car De Vay) department store. […]
BERLIN’S BEST AND ITS WURST
david ellis THE rain is pelting down, so much so that from inside our coach it’s difficult to identify much out of what our guide is talking about. And any idea, she suggests, of photos or look-sees is probably out of the question. Until she points out the KaDeWe (pronounced Car De Vay) department store. […]
RESORT GUESTS CAPTURE BRIDGE ON RIVER KWAI
david ellis GUESTS at a deluxe new boutique resort that opens in Thailand in October of this year can expect a misty-eye, and possibly goose-bumps down the spine, at least once during their stay. Because as they take evening cocktails before a million-dollar sunset view, they’ll also be looking across to one of the world’s […]
