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Needless End For Trail-blazing Pacific Aviator
David Ellis WHEN America’s Pan American Airways decided in 1937 that the time was right to look to opening-up a commercial flying route from San Francisco across the South Pacific to Sydney in far-off Australia. it’s founder Juan Trippe knew he had just the man to pioneer the route for them. That was his Chief […]
WHEEL DEAL CONFOUNDS THE NAYSAYERS
David Ellis WITH a self-drive writing trip on the slate that would take us from Heathrow to England’s Cotswolds, across to Wales to ride their famed Little Trains, back into England for Staffordshire’s Trentham Monkey Forest, and down to Heathrow again, mates in the know told us we’d need a good ten days to comfortably […]
WHEEL DEAL CONFOUNDS THE NAYSAYERS
David Ellis WITH a self-drive writing trip on the slate that would take us from Heathrow to England’s Cotswolds, across to Wales to ride their famed Little Trains, back into England for Staffordshire’s Trentham Monkey Forest, and down to Heathrow again, mates in the know told us we’d need a good ten days to comfortably […]
WHEEL DEAL CONFOUNDS THE NAYSAYERS
David Ellis WITH a self-drive writing trip on the slate that would take us from Heathrow to England’s Cotswolds, across to Wales to ride their famed Little Trains, back into England for Staffordshire’s Trentham Monkey Forest, and down to Heathrow again, mates in the know told us we’d need a good ten days to comfortably […]
SIR HENRY’S HOME TRULY WAS HIS CASTLE
david ellis CANADIAN businessman Sir Henry Pellatt firmly believed in every man’s home being his castle, so when he and Lady Mary decided in 1912 on somewhere new to live, they had plans drawn up for just that – a castle. He was not the least phased when his architect said he would first […]
SIR HENRY’S HOME TRULY WAS HIS CASTLE
david ellis CANADIAN businessman Sir Henry Pellatt firmly believed in every man’s home being his castle, so when he and Lady Mary decided in 1912 on somewhere new to live, they had plans drawn up for just that – a castle. He was not the least phased when his architect said he would first […]
RIVER KWAI CAN BE A BRIDGE TOO FAR
David Ellis NO matter how well-travelled we think we are, even the most-experienced of us can fall prey to the vagaries of the world’s multiplicity of transport systems – both good and bad. Long-time travel industry public relations man, David Ovens – who would need an over-sized suitcase to store all his airline tickets, ship’s […]
RIVER KWAI CAN BE A BRIDGE TOO FAR
David Ellis NO matter how well-travelled we think we are, even the most-experienced of us can fall prey to the vagaries of the world’s multiplicity of transport systems – both good and bad. Long-time travel industry public relations man, David Ovens – who would need an over-sized suitcase to store all his airline tickets, ship’s […]
ROCKY RIDE FOR HAPLESS ROCKIES TRAIN ROBBER
David Ellis PASSENGERS aboard Canada’s Rocky Mountaineer train from Vancouver to Banff have two days to marvel at the spectacular scenery of the Rockies, indulge fine cuisine and ponder the extraordinary engineering effort that brought it all about, including tunnels that spiral upwards through mountains, bridges that cross ruggedly beautiful canyons, and tracks that cling […]
SOAPY SMITH – KING OF THE KLONDIKE CONMEN
David Ellis THE self-styled ‘Reverend’ Charles Bowers and ‘Colonel’ Jefferson Smith were thinking neither the word of the Lord nor the Law when they arrived in frontier Skagway, Alaska in 1897 – it was the gleaming metal of the Klondike Gold Rush they were after. But they had no intention of clambering torturous […]
