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BUBBLY WIDOW’S RIDDLE PUTS SPARKLE IN CHAMPAGNE
david ellis AT a time in the early 19th century when young married women were expected to stay home and look after the children, or if they were rich, stay home and pay someone else to look after the children, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin turned such norms on their head. The daughter of Count Nicholas Ponsardin, a […]
CALIFORNIA FUN PARK KNOTT FOR FEINT-HEARTED
david ellis I FEEL I am still in recovery, having been hurled, whirled, blasted, inverted and reverted forwards, backwards, upside down and sideways at a near-100 white-knuckle k’s an hour – and for good measure dropped, plunged, soaked and spun dried. Then tossed more times in 3-minutes than a Caesar salad. Even when my feet […]
CALIFORNIA FUN PARK KNOTT FOR FEINT-HEARTED
david ellis I FEEL I am still in recovery, having been hurled, whirled, blasted, inverted and reverted forwards, backwards, upside down and sideways at a near-100 white-knuckle k’s an hour – and for good measure dropped, plunged, soaked and spun dried. Then tossed more times in 3-minutes than a Caesar salad. Even when my feet […]
SPINE-TINGLING ‘I DO’ IN BLUE HAWAII
david ellis YOU wouldn’t think there’d be too much interest in getting married at a hotel that’s been boarded-up and derelict for seventeen years, but in Hawaii couples are lining up for just such an opportunity. And it’s all because of two people: Elvis Presley who was married at this now-decaying place in the 1961 […]
SPINE-TINGLING ‘I DO’ IN BLUE HAWAII
david ellis YOU wouldn’t think there’d be too much interest in getting married at a hotel that’s been boarded-up and derelict for seventeen years, but in Hawaii couples are lining up for just such an opportunity. And it’s all because of two people: Elvis Presley who was married at this now-decaying place in the 1961 […]
Struth! Across the Pacific by Tin Can
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wonderous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says the tiny South Pacific island of Niuafo’ou in Tonga is also known as Tin Can Island. Its because Niuafo’ou has no harbour and no wharf, and in early days of European visitation […]
Struth! Across the Pacific by Tin Can
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wonderous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says the tiny South Pacific island of Niuafo’ou in Tonga is also known as Tin Can Island. Its because Niuafo’ou has no harbour and no wharf, and in early days of European visitation […]
NUDGING 80, LARRY’S LIFE IS MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC…
david ellis WHEN he was little more than knee-high to a grasshopper, and not even at school, Larry Rivera would watch and listen in awe to his mother pickin’ the ukulele at their home on Hawaii’s paradise island of Kauai. And when other family or friends dropped around with their own instruments to play and […]
NUDGING 80, LARRY’S LIFE IS MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC…
david ellis WHEN he was little more than knee-high to a grasshopper, and not even at school, Larry Rivera would watch and listen in awe to his mother pickin’ the ukulele at their home on Hawaii’s paradise island of Kauai. And when other family or friends dropped around with their own instruments to play and […]
BOUTIQUE NEW ZEALAND HOTEL A CLASS ACT
david ellis Students of New Zealand’s one-time Miss Gibson’s Private School for Girls would have trouble coming to grips today with the new-found life of their old alma mater. For rooms in which six, eight or even more young ladies of the rural well-to-do of New Zealand’s South Island once crammed into to sleep, are […]
