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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 […]
CORINTH CANAL: SHORT CUT TOOK A LITTLE TIME
david ellis HOODWINKING those whose support they need to keep them in power has been around since the politicians first breathed air. Way back in 67AD when Emperor Nero sensed wealthy traders and shipowners were getting a bit toey, he made a grand promise with a flair of showmanship that would leave pollies of today […]
CORINTH CANAL: SHORT CUT TOOK A LITTLE TIME
david ellis HOODWINKING those whose support they need to keep them in power has been around since the politicians first breathed air. Way back in 67AD when Emperor Nero sensed wealthy traders and shipowners were getting a bit toey, he made a grand promise with a flair of showmanship that would leave pollies of today […]
SPOOKY ENCOUNTERS WITH SPIRITED LOVERS
david ellis WHEN a romantic English lady named Maude nibbled at her lover’s ear that his passion “had her aflame,” little did she realise just how prophetic her words were to be. For Maude, a lady who had lived a somewhat sheltered life, had not plotted her one and only tryst too carefully at all. […]
SPOOKY ENCOUNTERS WITH SPIRITED LOVERS
david ellis WHEN a romantic English lady named Maude nibbled at her lover’s ear that his passion “had her aflame,” little did she realise just how prophetic her words were to be. For Maude, a lady who had lived a somewhat sheltered life, had not plotted her one and only tryst too carefully at all. […]
Struth! In the Lake of Luxury
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says if you reckon you deserve a bit of regal service on that next holiday, book yourself into the Taj Lake Palace at Udaipur in the state of Rajasthan in Western India, and play at […]
Struth! In the Lake of Luxury
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says if you reckon you deserve a bit of regal service on that next holiday, book yourself into the Taj Lake Palace at Udaipur in the state of Rajasthan in Western India, and play at […]
COUPLE OF TARTS ALMOST CAUSE FOR DIVORCE
david ellis IN the absence of my wife who was attempting to wreak as much havoc as possible to her credit card in the shortest time available, a travel-writing colleague and myself made the near-fatal decision of asking our Lisbon hotel barman where we could find a couple of local tarts – and if it […]
COUPLE OF TARTS ALMOST CAUSE FOR DIVORCE
david ellis IN the absence of my wife who was attempting to wreak as much havoc as possible to her credit card in the shortest time available, a travel-writing colleague and myself made the near-fatal decision of asking our Lisbon hotel barman where we could find a couple of local tarts – and if it […]
STRUTH – Bumped by the Queen
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that 90-something holidaymakers booked on the boutique 5-star British cruise ship Hebridean Princess in July have been told to take their holiday somewhere else – because the Queen wants the ship for a getaway […]
