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TWO-WHEEL COASTAL SIGHTSEEING’S A BREEZE
David ElliswithMike Smith FOR as long as he likes to remember, Wollongong’s Steve Melchior has had a passion for motor cycles, especially those with the Harley-Davidson badge. With the wind whistling through his handle-bar moustache, Steve has little hesitation to announce “I just love this job”. And why not, when you consider that eight […]
FAMED GARDENS ONCE WERE THE PITS
David Ellis IT was over a neighbourly cup of tea one day in 1909 that Canadian housewife Jennie Butchart bemoaned the fact that her husband Robert’s one-time limestone quarry next door on Vancouver Island off Vancouver City, was not only an eyesore, but “that dust from it gets in everywhere.” Her neighbour suggested that maybe […]
FAMED GARDENS ONCE WERE THE PITS
David Ellis IT was over a neighbourly cup of tea one day in 1909 that Canadian housewife Jennie Butchart bemoaned the fact that her husband Robert’s one-time limestone quarry next door on Vancouver Island off Vancouver City, was not only an eyesore, but “that dust from it gets in everywhere.” Her neighbour suggested that maybe […]
BEAUTY OF SPAIN’S RONDA WILL ROCK YOU
David Ellis TO ask whether the Andalusian town of Ronda in southern Spain is spectacular is somewhat akin to asking if Julia Roberts is a pretty woman. Famous 20th century Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke summed it up when he wrote: “I have sought everywhere the city of my dreams, and I have finally found […]
BEAUTY OF SPAIN’S RONDA WILL ROCK YOU
SPAIN’s Ronda: “Nothing more startling than this wild and mountainous city.” David Ellis . TO ask whether the Andalusian town of Ronda in southern Spain is spectacular is somewhat akin to asking if Julia Roberts is a pretty woman. Famous 20th century Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke summed it up when he wrote: “I have […]
BEAUTY OF SPAIN’S RONDA WILL ROCK YOU
David Ellis TO ask whether the Andalusian town of Ronda in southern Spain is spectacular is somewhat akin to asking if Julia Roberts is a pretty woman. Famous 20th century Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke summed it up when he wrote: “I have sought everywhere the city of my dreams, and I have finally found […]
Bokissa Private Island Resort: IDYLLIC LIFE OF AN ACCIDENTAL ISLANDER
David Ellis PSSST! Wanna buy a South Pacific island? One that’s just three hours or so from Brisbane, with a little resort tucked into a thumbnail of its 72ha (180 acres) – and rated by TV’s Getaway travel program “one of the 50 best hotels in the world?” Your island in the sun on which […]
Bokissa Private Island Resort: IDYLLIC LIFE OF AN ACCIDENTAL ISLANDER
David Ellis PSSST! Wanna buy a South Pacific island? One that’s just three hours or so from Brisbane, with a little resort tucked into a thumbnail of its 72ha (180 acres) – and rated by TV’s Getaway travel program “one of the 50 best hotels in the world?” Your island in the sun on which […]
Bokissa Private Island Resort: IDYLLIC LIFE OF AN ACCIDENTAL ISLANDER
David Ellis PSSST! Wanna buy a South Pacific island? One that’s just three hours or so from Brisbane, with a little resort tucked into a thumbnail of its 72ha (180 acres) – and rated by TV’s Getaway travel program “one of the 50 best hotels in the world?” Your island in the sun on which […]
America’s Bizarre Cold War Secret Hideout
David Ellis GUESTS staying at America’s oldest and most luxurious resort during the Cold War era from the 1960s to ’90s, had no idea they were cavorting above a bizarre subterranean world that could have come straight out of James Bond, the fertile mind of Graham Greene, Hollywood’s Dr Strangelove or maybe even TV’s M*A*S*H. […]
