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HUNTING DOWN CANADA’S COOLEST ADVENTURES
Polar Bears – there are more in Nunavut Territory than anywhere else in the world Adventurous holidaymakers ready for anything in Canada’s Arctic around Iqaluit david ellis THERE’s almost no mercury in the thermometer at minus-26C in winter, and on Christmas Day there might be five hours of sunshine – if there’s any of the […]
TEA MAN JOHN BAGS CHATEAU’D DREAMS
david ellis EVELYNE Geber knows her husband John’s not the sort of bloke to do things by halves. So when he was on a business trip to the Barossa Valley in 1998 and rang their Sydney home to say he’d just put down an option to buy the derelict remains of what was once Australia’s […]
TEA MAN JOHN BAGS CHATEAU’D DREAMS
david ellis EVELYNE Geber knows her husband John’s not the sort of bloke to do things by halves. So when he was on a business trip to the Barossa Valley in 1998 and rang their Sydney home to say he’d just put down an option to buy the derelict remains of what was once Australia’s […]
AUSSIES’ MAKE SEADREAM A CARIBBEAN COUP
david ellis MODERN-day pirates may have guests ducking for cover on cruise ships off Somalia, but when a baker’s-dozen Aussies decided on a brief “commandeering” of the world’s Number One motor-yacht in the Caribbean last month, fellow guests didn’t go running for cover – they went running for their cameras. SeaDream I had just sailed […]
AUSSIES’ MAKE SEADREAM A CARIBBEAN COUP
david ellis MODERN-day pirates may have guests ducking for cover on cruise ships off Somalia, but when a baker’s-dozen Aussies decided on a brief “commandeering” of the world’s Number One motor-yacht in the Caribbean last month, fellow guests didn’t go running for cover – they went running for their cameras. SeaDream I had just sailed […]
PRAGUE GETS A BANG OUT OF NEW YEAR
david ellis IT’S the snow that does it, bouncing the extraordinary New Year fireworks off Prague’s white-capped buildings, parks and streets like some huge movie-lot reflector, so that the whole city seems ablaze in a double-dazzle of flashing white, electric blue, orange, red, purple, green and gold…. And under-foot it crunches icily as we sway […]
PRAGUE GETS A BANG OUT OF NEW YEAR
david ellis IT’S the snow that does it, bouncing the extraordinary New Year fireworks off Prague’s white-capped buildings, parks and streets like some huge movie-lot reflector, so that the whole city seems ablaze in a double-dazzle of flashing white, electric blue, orange, red, purple, green and gold…. And under-foot it crunches icily as we sway […]
VANUATU POSTS ITS STAMP OF APPROVAL
david ellis THE POSTAL authorities in Vanuatu are an inventive lot, and maybe amongst the world’s most imaginary. In an era in which many a little country makes a cosy income from selling colourful and odd-shaped postage stamps to collectors, Vanuatu goes one step further. Five years ago its postal chiefs opened […]
VANUATU POSTS ITS STAMP OF APPROVAL
david ellis THE POSTAL authorities in Vanuatu are an inventive lot, and maybe amongst the world’s most imaginary. In an era in which many a little country makes a cosy income from selling colourful and odd-shaped postage stamps to collectors, Vanuatu goes one step further. Five years ago its postal chiefs opened […]
STRASBOURG’S SILENT SUNDAY SUNRISE
david ellis WE occasionally make decisions that in their wisdom surprise even ourselves. One such was deciding earlier this year to stretch a day trip from Paris to Strasbourg to an overnight. A particularly long and enjoyable dinner with several bottles of French whites helped it along. And had we not, we would never have […]
