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Shongolo will Train you to Wild Africa
TRAIN YOURSELF TO GO WILD IN AFRICA David Ellis WHEN Leon Plutsick and his business partner decided to go beyond their travel agency and restaurant ventures and start their own tourist train, they didn’t call in business consultants, bank managers nor even their accountants. They called in a witchdoctor. “Witchdoctors have extraordinary inner senses and […]
COUPLE OF TARTS ALMOST CAUSE FOR DIVORCE
david ellis IN the absence of my wife who was attempting to wreak as much havoc as possible to her credit card in the shortest time available, a travel-writing colleague and myself made the near-fatal decision of asking our Lisbon hotel barman where we could find a couple of local tarts – and if it […]
COUPLE OF TARTS ALMOST CAUSE FOR DIVORCE
david ellis IN the absence of my wife who was attempting to wreak as much havoc as possible to her credit card in the shortest time available, a travel-writing colleague and myself made the near-fatal decision of asking our Lisbon hotel barman where we could find a couple of local tarts – and if it […]
MORE THAN TIP-TOE THROUGH HIGHLANDS’ TULIP TIME
David Ellis WE’RE not sure if this comes under the category of trivia or the coincidental, but this year’s Tulip Time Festival in the Southern Highlands of NSW will be the 52nd of what has become one of the biggest celebrations of the tulip in Australia, and a far cry from when the first bulbs […]
MORE THAN TIP-TOE THROUGH HIGHLANDS’ TULIP TIME
David Ellis WE’RE not sure if this comes under the category of trivia or the coincidental, but this year’s Tulip Time Festival in the Southern Highlands of NSW will be the 52nd of what has become one of the biggest celebrations of the tulip in Australia, and a far cry from when the first bulbs […]
MORE THAN TIP-TOE THROUGH SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS’ TULIP TIME
David Ellis WE’RE not sure if this comes under the category of trivia or the coincidental, but this year’s Tulip Time Festival in the Southern Highlands of NSW will be the 52nd of what has become one of the biggest celebrations of the tulip in Australia, and a far cry from when the first bulbs […]
SUB’S CLANGER CREATES SHELL OF A MESS
David Ellis ONE morning in January 1942 as Masaitchiro Shimasaki was enjoying his regular breakfast cigar on the beach off his comfortable little home in then-American Samoa, he noticed something unusual glittering off-shore in the early South Pacific sun. These islands had long been used as a Naval base by the Americans after they had […]
SUB’S CLANGER CREATES SHELL OF A MESS
David Ellis ONE morning in January 1942 as Masaitchiro Shimasaki was enjoying his regular breakfast cigar on the beach off his comfortable little home in then-American Samoa, he noticed something unusual glittering off-shore in the early South Pacific sun. These islands had long been used as a Naval base by the Americans after they had […]
SECRETS OF SOUTH PACIFIC’S TRULY TREASURE ISLAND
David Ellis HOW romantic it would be to think that a dreamy South Pacific atoll that Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife fell in love with in 1890 would inspire him to write his immortal Treasure Island. But in truth he had published his famous tome some seven years before they set eyes on this South Pacific treasure […]
SECRETS OF SOUTH PACIFIC’S TRULY TREASURE ISLAND
David Ellis HOW romantic it would be to think that a dreamy South Pacific atoll that Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife fell in love with in 1890 would inspire him to write his immortal Treasure Island. But in truth he had published his famous tome some seven years before they set eyes on this South Pacific treasure […]
