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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 […]
WAIKIKI HOTEL LEANS TOWARDS YESTER-YEAR
David Ellis There is, in this travel writing game, an inherent risk of madness brought about by an occupational hazard known as TSI. TSI is The Site Inspection, a professional encounter that’s been known to reduce granite-hearted men to tears, morph otherwise normally rational human beings into gibbering idiots, and in worst-case scenarios, have travel-hardened […]
WORLD THEIR OYSTER FOR AIRLINE PIONEERS
david ellis THE first thing most would-be company owners do when musing over what to call their new outfit is to bring in the big guns of marketing, advertising, logo design and corporate law. But back in 1946 two blokes who were to create what would become one of the world’s most successful airlines, had […]
WORLD THEIR OYSTER FOR AIRLINE PIONEERS
david ellis THE first thing most would-be company owners do when musing over what to call their new outfit is to bring in the big guns of marketing, advertising, logo design and corporate law. But back in 1946 two blokes who were to create what would become one of the world’s most successful airlines, had […]
COUNCIL RUBBISHED OVER SHAKESPEARE’s THEATRE
david ellis CLOSE to a million people a year visit the replica of Shakespeare’s old Globe Theatre in London’s Thames-side Southwark, either to just gawk or to take-in a performance. Probably only a few ever ponder its history, one that’s as contorted as anything the Bard himself could have penned – and he was certainly […]
COUNCIL RUBBISHED OVER SHAKESPEARE’s THEATRE
david ellis CLOSE to a million people a year visit the replica of Shakespeare’s old Globe Theatre in London’s Thames-side Southwark, either to just gawk or to take-in a performance. Probably only a few ever ponder its history, one that’s as contorted as anything the Bard himself could have penned – and he was certainly […]
STRUTH! Pack your Pooch with Pet Airways
IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wonderous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS finds that when an American couple, Dan Wiesel and Alysa Binder couldn’t find an airline that could assure 100% safety and comfort for their pet Jack Russell terrier, Zoe in the cargo compartments of planes when they […]
STRUTH! Pack your Pooch with Pet Airways
IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wonderous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS finds that when an American couple, Dan Wiesel and Alysa Binder couldn’t find an airline that could assure 100% safety and comfort for their pet Jack Russell terrier, Zoe in the cargo compartments of planes when they […]
SIGNALS FOR CRUISE SINGLES: TIE A YELLOW RIBBON…
david ellis WHEN travel agent Jenny Williams sets off for a cruise with one of her regular groups of mature-age singles travellers, she goes with a Be Prepared attitude worthy of the finest in the Scouting movement. Because amongst the many accoutrements a good travel agent always has tucked away in their travel bag, Jenny […]
SIGNALS FOR CRUISE SINGLES: TIE A YELLOW RIBBON…
david ellis WHEN travel agent Jenny Williams sets off for a cruise with one of her regular groups of mature-age singles travellers, she goes with a Be Prepared attitude worthy of the finest in the Scouting movement. Because amongst the many accoutrements a good travel agent always has tucked away in their travel bag, Jenny […]
