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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 […]
PLAYING OUT THEIR FAITH WITH A PASSION
david ellis WHEN the illiterate farmer Kasper Schisler breached the cordon and managed to sneak into the little village in the Bavarian Alps from which he had been banished in the 1630s, he set off an extraordinary chain of events that to this day attracts hundreds of thousands of people to the place that he […]
PLAYING OUT THEIR FAITH WITH A PASSION
david ellis WHEN the illiterate farmer Kasper Schisler breached the cordon and managed to sneak into the little village in the Bavarian Alps from which he had been banished in the 1630s, he set off an extraordinary chain of events that to this day attracts hundreds of thousands of people to the place that he […]
SAMOAN HOTEL HOOKED ON HISTORY
david ellis YOU’VE got to admire a bloke who invests a million bucks or so in building a boutique hotel in Samoa, and then names it after a hooker. But hey, this is the South Pacific and Tom Drabble is a Kiwi. But he’s a Kiwi with business acumen, imagination – and a nice sense of humour to go with it. […]
SAMOAN HOTEL HOOKED ON HISTORY
david ellis YOU’VE got to admire a bloke who invests a million bucks or so in building a boutique hotel in Samoa, and then names it after a hooker. But hey, this is the South Pacific and Tom Drabble is a Kiwi. But he’s a Kiwi with business acumen, imagination – and a nice sense of humour to go with it. […]
LET FRANCESCA SHOW YOU LA DOLCE VITA
LET FRANCESCA SHOW YOU LA DOLCE VITA david ellis SO you want to hire a train so you and your mates can see Italy in style. And a palace too, for a slap-up birthday bash along the way – completeof course with your own orchestra and a fireworks show in a cosylittle Italian bay below […]
LET FRANCESCA SHOW YOU LA DOLCE VITA
LET FRANCESCA SHOW YOU LA DOLCE VITA david ellis SO you want to hire a train so you and your mates can see Italy in style. And a palace too, for a slap-up birthday bash along the way – completeof course with your own orchestra and a fireworks show in a cosylittle Italian bay below […]
WINE LOVERS CRUSH ON LEEDS CASTLE
WINE LOVERS CRUSH ON LEEDS CASTLE david ellis WHEN William the Conqueror decided to take over England in 1066, hegave one of his invasion’s cushier jobs to his half-brother, BishopOdo of Bayeux. Odo was told to take hold of a small wooden fortress that had beenbuilt on an island in a lake in Kent around […]
WINE LOVERS CRUSH ON LEEDS CASTLE
WINE LOVERS CRUSH ON LEEDS CASTLE david ellis WHEN William the Conqueror decided to take over England in 1066, hegave one of his invasion’s cushier jobs to his half-brother, BishopOdo of Bayeux. Odo was told to take hold of a small wooden fortress that had beenbuilt on an island in a lake in Kent around […]
BEST OF BRITISH – TRUE BLUE!
BEST OF BRITISH – TRUE BLUE! david ellis THE message is delivered through the public address system in theBest-of- British English. It draws you to listen. Every word is enunciated perfectly with nary a vowel flawed; everyending “g” or “t” as discernible as Professor Henry Higgins strove forfrom his battle with the hapless Cockney Eliza […]
