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CARIBBEAN B&B’S AN EASY CELL
david ellis THE Dutch are marvels at creating engineering wonders on their home turf, but when they were asked back in the 1940s to build a road around and over the tiny island of Saba in the Caribbean’s Netherlands Antilles, they studied it long and hard and decided that “Nee – this is impossible,” and […]
NAPOLEON’S GRAND MAURITIUS VICTORY SHORT-LIVED
david ellis OF all the battles he fought, Napoleon Bonaparte won only one at sea – and remarkably that was not in his own backyard in Europe, but on the other side of the world in the Indian Ocean. And while he was not personally involved in this historic skirmish in which a small part […]
NAPOLEON’S GRAND MAURITIUS VICTORY SHORT-LIVED
david ellis OF all the battles he fought, Napoleon Bonaparte won only one at sea – and remarkably that was not in his own backyard in Europe, but on the other side of the world in the Indian Ocean. And while he was not personally involved in this historic skirmish in which a small part […]
GOING TROPPO: IT’S ALL BUBBLES, BUSH AND BILLY TEA
david ellis “LOOK for the bubbles,” says Col Adamson as our party of hopefuls, victims of an itinerant tropical downpour, flounders along a muddy trail beside the Broken River in Queensland’s Eungella National Park. We’re high in the rainforest hinterland behind Mackay, most of us more interested in the umbrellas we […]
GOING TROPPO: IT’S ALL BUBBLES, BUSH AND BILLY TEA
david ellis “LOOK for the bubbles,” says Col Adamson as our party of hopefuls, victims of an itinerant tropical downpour, flounders along a muddy trail beside the Broken River in Queensland’s Eungella National Park. We’re high in the rainforest hinterland behind Mackay, most of us more interested in the umbrellas we […]
HIGHLAND FLING OF GARDENS, GALLERIES AND GOURMET DINING
john rozentals and david ellis photos: sandra burn white NEW SOUTH WALES’ Southern Highlands – just ninety minutes from Sydney have come a long way since their initial fame in the mid- to late-19th century centred on their coal mines, iron foundries, brick kilns and dairies that supplied “the big smoke.” And in later-times, the […]
HIGHLAND FLING OF GARDENS, GALLERIES AND GOURMET DINING
john rozentals and david ellis photos: sandra burn white NEW SOUTH WALES’ Southern Highlands – just ninety minutes from Sydney have come a long way since their initial fame in the mid- to late-19th century centred on their coal mines, iron foundries, brick kilns and dairies that supplied “the big smoke.” And in later-times, the […]
Duke Kahanamoku – Hawaii’s Boy’s Own Annual Hero
FORTY years after his death, Duke Kahanamokustill stands tall on Waikiki beach today. david ellis THERE are three types go to Duke’s Restaurant and Barefoot Bar at Hawaii’s Outrigger Waikiki hotel. Those seeking a drink with one of the best views of the world’s most famous sands, those looking for a good feed with the […]
DUKE – HAWAII’S BOY’S OWN ANNUAL HERO
david ellis THERE are three types go to Duke’s Restaurant and Barefoot Bar at Hawaii’s Outrigger Waikiki hotel. Those seeking a drink with one of the best views of the world’s most famous sands, those looking for a good feed with the same views, and those who pay homage to a bloke whose life story […]
CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN
david ellis WHEN Swiss engineer Eduard Locher revealed he’d got the government’s okay to build a railway from the shores of Lake Lucerne to the summit of the 2200-metre high Mount Pilatus in the craggy Swiss Alps, folks decided that either the government was mad, Mr Locher was mad, or both were mad. It was […]
